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Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

 
06 February 2025
A group of Cambridge students were invited to attend the Emirates Literary Festival due to the good offices of Emeritus Professor Yasir Suleiman.


16 January 2025
Dr John Nilsson-Wright analyses the recent political turmoil in South Korea in an essay for Engelsberg Ideas


09 January 2025
as a representative of the School of Arts and Humanities.


09 January 2025
Barak Kushner starred in and conducted the interviews for a Japanese NHK documentary on the history and popular culture of ramen.


07 January 2025
The festival will take place 17-20 January 2025.


06 January 2025
Aaron's book titled Diachronic Diversity in Classical Biblical Hebrew has been featured in a blog


06 January 2025
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Dr Michael Loewe (1922-2025).


20 December 2024
Dr Thomas P. Barrett's latest article, 'Qing Diplomacy’s Scottish Face: Halliday Macartney, Yamen Culture, and Diplomatic Transformation in China’s London Legation, 1877-1905' has just been published in volume 45, issue 2 of Late Imperial China.


10 December 2024
We are delighted to announce that Queens College is offering The Yen Ming Deh Scholarship - this scholarship is open to applicants starting a PhD or MPhil course at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern studies in October 2025, and preference may be given to candidates specialising in Chinese studies.


09 December 2024
The project is entitled "The image and perceptions of Armenia in the Arab world through the eyes of Arabic media" and begins in January 2025, led by Dr Mushegh Ghahriyan of Yerevan State University.


06 December 2024
Aishwarj Kumar has translated an English novel into Hindi, and the title of the novel is 'Never Never Land'. The novel is by the esteemed Indian author Namita Gokhale. 


06 December 2024
We are very excited to announce the acquisition of a large series of facsimiled Buddhist texts titled Zhongguo fojiao banhua quanji 中國佛教版畫全集.


06 December 2024
This has included various news media outlets such as Channel 4 News, the Sky News Podcast, CNN, the Times and the Guardian


03 December 2024
Professor Christine van Ruymbeke will feature as a specialist on the 12th Century Persian Poet Nezami of Ganje.


29 November 2024
Roel Sterckx, Directeur d’Études Invité at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Section Sciences Historiques et philologiques) in Paris, gave a lecture series on the theme “Penser l’agriculture dans la Chine ancienne