The Department of Middle Eastern Studies cordially invites you to a lecture by Syrian writer and literary critic Nabil Suleiman. The lecture, titled “Syrian Mirrors: 55 Years of Novel Writing in the Syrian and Arab Context”, will take place on Wednesday 14 May 2025 at 17:30 at Celetná 13, Prague 1, room 1.08. The lecture […]
The Prague Center for Jewish Studies and the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, cordially invite you to a guest lecture by Dr. Roni Cohen from the Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. The lecture, titled “Philosophy, Parody and Playing Ball: The Medieval Dance of the Players”, will take place […]
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 […]
On March 28 2025, our colleague, a member of the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Kateřina Čapková, received the Reimar Lüst Award in Bamberg from the hands of the president of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Prof. Robert Schlögl. According to the laudation, Kateřina Čapková is a „leading […]
On January 30, 2025, the Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art in Tel Aviv launched an exhibition called “Common Language”. This exhibition showcases four new projects exploring the evolution of Hebrew script design. Among them, typographer Ben Nathan and our colleague, architect Daniel Ziss, presented their project Sahara, which is one of the outcomes […]
The Department of Middle Eastern Studies and the Prague Center for Jewish Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, cordially invite you to a guest lecture by Dr. Semion Goldin from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The lecture, titled “Russian Army and Jewish Population during WWI: Some Lessons for Ukraine“, will take place on […]
Department of Middle Eastern Studies cordially invites you to the book presentation of “Škodovy závody Teherán: Českoslovenští architekti v říši perského šáha, 1932-1948” (Skoda Works Tehran – The Architects of Imperial Iran, 1932-1948) by Iranian architectural historian Reza Alirezaieyan. The event will feature the author himself. When: Thursday, April 3, at 17.45 Where: Faculty of […]
The Department of Middle Eastern Studies cordially invites you to a guest lecture by Prof. Walter Armbrust from University of Oxford titled “An Immoveable Object and an Irresistible Force: ‘Adil Imam in the January 25th Revolution”. When: 25 March 2025 from 17:45 Where: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, náměstí Jana Palacha 1/2, room 300 Walter […]
The Department of Middle Eastern Studies and the Prague Centre of Jewish Studies, FA CU are hosting a lecture by Dr. Andrea Schatz (King’s College London) entitled “Warriors or Merchants? The Exile of the Ten Tribes in Early Modern Global Contexts“. The lecture takes place on Tuesday 18th February from 14:10 at the Department of […]
The Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Faculty of Arts of Charles University and Prague Centre for Jewish Studies invite you to a lecture by professor Maoz Kahana (Tel Aviv University) titled “Smoke the Pipe and Win the War: One Sabbatean Smoking Ritual and Its Echoes in Chassidic Lore”. The lecture will take place on Tuesday, […]
The Department of Middle Eastern Studies invites all to a lecture by David Rotman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) “Tears for Fears: Folklore and Politics in the Cults of Rachel the Matriarch in Contemporary Israel“. “Since at least the mid-19th century, a well-established and widely participated cult of Rachel the Matriarch has existed, primarily at the […]
