During the first week of the new academic year, Professor Judith Kalik from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she is a member of the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies, will be visiting our department. Prof. Kalik’s research focuses primarily on the history of Eastern Europe in the early modern period, with an emphasis […]
Last week, King Abdullah II of Jordan and Queen Rania paid a state visit to the Czech Republic, where they were received by the President of the Republic, Petr Pavel, and the First Lady, Eva Pavlová. Daniel Boušek, Head of the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, also attended […]
You are kindly invited to a screening of the documentary film Second Breath (Nafas-e dovvom), followed by Q&A with director Mojgan Ilanlou. 📅 October 1, 2026, 17:30 📍 Room 1.08 (1st floor), Celetná 13, Prague 1 💬 In Persian with English subtitles Overview: A 52-minute documentary shaped across seven years from 2018 to 2024, it […]
The Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, provides education and research in the languages, literature, and history of the region as well as in its relation to Europe and the present and past of the region’s cultures that originated in the Middle Eastern region. Currently, the department offers education in the […]
From 1 to 3 July 2026, members of the (IM)VISION project — Envisioning Impossible Futures: Imaginaries of Political Transformation in the Middle East, a PRIMUS project led by the Department’s Assistant Professor Tereza Jermanová — took part in the 13th European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS) at Izmir University of Economics, held this year under the theme “Navigating a Fractured […]
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 […]
