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Join us for a special CIMS seminar with IKOS Professor of Arabic and Arabic literature, Stephan Guth.
Join us for a special CIMS seminar with Dr. Ricarda Stegmann .
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Join us for a CIMS panel conversation with contributors to the edited volume Branding the Middle East.
Join us for a CIMS conversation with Palestinian Human Rights Defender, Omar Barghouti.
In this CIMs lecture, Dr. Eirik Hovden will give an overview over how to understand changes in Islamic law in institutions, genres and rules, ca. 1200-1800 CE.
Welcome to a CIMS Friday lecture By Prof. Vemund Aarbakke who will introduce us to the Muslim-Turkish minority in contemporary Greece.
In this CIMs lecture, Prof. Stephan Guth explores what a Norwegian National Library manuscript tells us about the everyday life of a Levantine merchant in the mid-18th century.
In this lecture, Pelle Valentin Olsen investigates the historical entanglement of capital, culture, and leisure by mapping the local Iraqi capitalist and entrepreneurial elites, many of whom were upper-class Iraqi Jews with international outlooks, who invested in film exhibition and production technology.
How do you take ownership of your own history after being written out of it for generations?
Welcome to a lecture by Prof. Bjørn Olav Utvik on the interplay between football, religion and politics in Morocco.
Join us for a CIMS seminar and panel discussion on Rebel Governance and Kinship Groups in the Middle East and Africa
The Center of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (CIMS) at UiO is inviting researchers and students of all levels to a Master Class with Asef Bayat, Professor of Sociology from the University of Illinois.
Join us for a CIMS lecture with Asef Bayat, Professor of Sociology from the University of Illinois.
Join us for a CIMS seminar with Jørgen Jensehaugen (PRIO) on Robert Capa's imagery and photography of Palestine, 1948-1950
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Join us at Eilert Sundts hus, this Friday, for a CIMS seminar with Serap Saritas, on 'Islamic Financial Securities: The Case of Turkey', followed by a Q&A led by Einar Wigen, Professor in Turkish Studies.
Join us for an online CIMS seminar with Dr. Emmanuel Karagiannis from King's College London, on the environmental policies and approaches of Islamist groups
Join us for a CIMS seminar with Mona Baker on Researching Protest Movements: Methodological and Ethical Challenges, a study of human and cultural collaboration during the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.
Join us for a CIMS seminar with Sardar Aziz, on superpower engagement and relations with Kurdistan.
Join us for the book launch of Sunni City: Tripoli from Islamist Utopia to the Lebanese Revolution. Tine Gade (NUPI) discusses her study of the political history of Tripoli, and how it reflects upon wider national and regional dynamics of Lebanon and the Middle East, in conversation with Brynjar Lia.
Join us for a CIMS seminar with Professor Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen from the University of Copenhagen, reflecting upon the cultural and historical trajectories of the Prophet. The conversation will be led by Ragnhild J. Zorgati.
Velkommen til Arabiske Filmdager og samtale om politisk satire med “Midtøstens Jon Stewart”!
Join us for the book launch of The Modern Arabic Bible: Translation, Dissemination and Literary Impact, exploring how nahda translations of the Bible transformed Arabic language and literature. Rana Issa discusses her book, published by Edinburgh University Press in 2023, in conversation with Ingeborg Amadou Fossestøl.