01 February 2024
Assef Ashraf’s book, 'Making and Remaking Empire in Early Qajar Iran' (CUP), offers a socially-oriented analysis of the making of the Qajar empire at the turn of the nineteenth century. It focuses on the discourse and political practices of empire, both in the centres and peripheries, to highlight overarching themes of transition and change at this pivotal moment in Iranian history.
25 January 2024
Christine van Ruymbeke features in an episode of the Saudi Channel 1/Shahid VOD docu-series "Heritage"
19 January 2024
The piece, co-authored with Steven Irvings, is titled: In the Black Ships’ Wake: Early American Enterprise at Treaty Port Hakodate
19 January 2024
Professor James Montgomery's 2018 book Dīwān ʿAntarah ibn Shaddād: A Literary Historical Study has been longlisted for a Sheikh Zayed Prize (editing manuscripts category).
19 January 2024
Professor Andrew Marsham’s new book traces the origins of the first Islamic empire to the Arabian Peninsula and the Syrian Steppe in the centuries before Islam and explores economic, social, religious, and political change in this pivotal era in the history of the Mediterranean, North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia.
17 January 2024
Professor James Montgomery, the Sir Thomas Adam's Professor of Arabic Literature has been awarded in December 2023 a Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding (Arabic to English) as runner-up for his translation with Sophia Vasalou of Al-Tawḥīdī, The Philosopher Responds.
10 January 2024
Elizabeth Monier was interviewed for an article "Plan to boost Emirati families key as expat population surges" in The National, an Emirati newspaper, published January 6th about Dubai's new social agenda.
08 January 2024
The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland has announced that Dr. Thomas P. Barrett, who is currently Postdoctoral Research Associate within the faculty, has been awarded the Society's 2023 Bayly Prize for his doctoral dissertation 'Foreigners and the Making of the Chinese Diplomat', for which he received his doctorate for from the University of Oxford in 2022.
20 December 2023
Dr Hajni Elias has contributed a chapter titled "Commemorating the Dead for the Living: Two Eastern Han (25 – 220 CE) Stelae from Southwest China" to the new book "East Asia and Beyond the Archives: Missing Sources and Marginal Lives" published by Leiden University Press
18 December 2023
Based in the Faculty of Divinity, the Cambridge Interfaith Research Forum was established in 2022 to enhance research connectivity at and beyond the University of Cambridge. It provides a particular space to make connections, locate differing expertise, and look at things from a new perspective. Elizabeth Monier of AMES has now joined the research forum to enhance her work researching Coptic Christianity and the navigating of religious boundaries in Egypt.
14 December 2023
On 28 November, Dr Steger joined the BBC World Services Newshour programme to discuss reproductive and contraceptive politics in Japan where some pharmacies are trialing the sale of the contraceptive pill for the first time.
22 November 2023
The UK-Japanese Defence and Intelligence Relationship event recording is now available to watch online
03 October 2023
The Korean Studies section at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies is excited to welcome the first awardee of the Yang Won Sun Foundation Postgraduate Studentship.
21 April 2023
The Japanese Studies Group at the University of Cambridge is thrilled to announce a generous donation from Mitsubishi Corporation London Branch to support our Summer School in Early Modern Japanese Palaeography.