During the week of June 22–26, our two PhD students, along with about a hundred colleagues from around the world, attended the 16th biennial conference of the European Association for Modern Arabic Literature (EURAMAL) at the University of St. Andrews. This year’s conference theme was “Catastrophe and Beyond: Representations of Violence and Trauma in Modern […]

The Visegrad Recognized Student scheme supports outstanding PhD candidates from Visegrad countries to undertake a one-term research placement at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, University of Oxford. The programme will provide candidates from four partner universities with: access to world-class academic resources, expert mentorship and access to taught courses, and opportunities to present their work to academics and experts in their field. […]

The Department of Middle Eastern Studies and the “Nad Prahou půlměsíc” festival cordially invite you to a lecture to be delivered at the DMES by Syrian scholar Ahmadiyya Al-Nasan (Institut français du Proche-Orient) at DMES on her research dedicated to the travelogues of the Arab-Ottoman traveler Abd ar-Rahman al-Baghdadi, who visited India and Brazil in […]

An exhibition titled “Al-Andalus en el Mashriq” is being held at the Casa del Chapiz (Escuela de Estudios Árabes, SCIC) in Granada from May 11 to June 11, 2026. The team of authors also included Dr. Josef Ženka and our PhD student Karolína Švandová, each of whom created a panel for this exhibition presenting the […]

We cordially invite you to a guest lecture by Professor Moshe Halbertal of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The lecture, entitled “Sacrifice and Violence,” will take place on Monday, May 11, at 10:50 in Room C240 (Celetná 20). Abstract: „In this lecture, Prof. Halbertal explores the concept of sacrifice from biblical ritual to its broader […]

On Monday, April 30, a conference “Türkiye-Czechia Relations from Past to Present” was held at the Faculty of Arts. The event was jointly organized by the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, the Embassy of the Republic of Turkey in Prague, and the Turkish Historical Society. Opening remarks were delivered by the Dean of the Faculty […]

We are happy to share an invitation from our colleagues from the University of Warsaw: Dear Friends, We are thrilled to announce that Warsaw Ulpan 2026 is open for applications! This intensive Hebrew language summer course is your chance to dive into Modern Hebrew and explore Jewish heritage and culture right in the heart of Warsaw, Poland.  Warsaw Ulpan isn’t […]

The Department of Middle Eastern Studies kindly invites all students, faculty members, and the general public to the international conference “Türkiye-Czechia Relations from Past to Present.” The conference will take place on Monday, March 30, starting at 10:00 a.m. in Room P104 of the main building of the Faculty of Arts (Náměstí Jana Palacha 1/2). […]

Our second guest in March will be PD. Dr. Lutz Rzehak from Humboldt University of Berlin. Lutz Rzehak is affiliated with the Central Asian Seminar, and in his academic and pedagogical work he focuses on modern Iranian languages (Persian, Dari, Pashto, Balochi, and Tajik) as well as on the ethnography and cultural history of Central […]

Next week, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies will welcome Professor Gülsemin Hazer. Professor Hazer is the head of the Department of Turkish Language at Sakarya University. Her academic and pedagogical focus is primarily on 20th-century Turkish literature and the literary analysis of works by modern Turkish authors. As part of her visit, she will […]