Asia News Saudi Arabia's discriminatory male guardianship system continues to dominate the lives of women, despite government pledges to abolish it. According to Human Rights Watch, the system forbids women from obtaining a passport, marrying, traveling, driving, or accessing higher education without the approval of a...
Dan Blázquez. La ciencia en el mundo árabe adquirió un papel destacado, pero no solo la ciencia sino la aplicación de la técnica para el desarrollo de diversos aparatos e ingenios mecánicos, como demuestra la frecuente la aparición de autómatas, a veces en su literatura y...
El insigne arabista Dr. Camilo Álvarez de Morales Ruíz-Matas, durante tantos años director de la Escuela de Estudios Árabes de Granada (C.S.I.C.), será recibido en la Academia Andaluza de la Historia, como Miembro de Número, el viernes 27 de marzo de 2015, a las siete de la...
Convenors: Claudia Hopkins, University of Edinburgh, c.hopkins@ed.ac.uk Anna McSweeney, SOAS, University of London, am105@soas.ac.uk AAH2016 Annual Conference and Bookfair University of Edinburgh 7 – 9 April 2016 Orientalism and Spain in the 19th and 20th Centuries Spain represents a unique and fertile context in which to explore attitudes to the art and...
The 8th International Conference on Education June 6-7-2016 Organized jointly by Bridgewater State University, Tafila Technical University, and Yarmouk University Dear colleagues, We are delighted to invite you to submit a research paper to the 8th International Conference on Education and Social Justice in a Digital Age, which will...
Formations of Middle Eastern Subjectivities Cultural Heritage, Global Structures and Local Practices The tenth Nordic Conference on Middle Eastern Studies will take place at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark, September 22-24, 2016.Download the brochure Nordic_Brochure The conference is organized in cooperation with the Centre for Contemporary Middle...
"Juego de pistas: Beirut y una nueva generación de artistas" es es una exposición que explora un cambio en la obra y las inquietudes individuales de una nueva generación de artistas vinculada a la ciudad de Beirut. Presentada durante el verano de 2015 en la...
Alfredo Asensi Córdoba. España, siglo XVIII. Pocos años después de su creación (en 1752), la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando recibe alarmantes noticias sobre el deterioro de las pinturas de la Alhambra y se moviliza para evitar la pérdida de estos bienes de...
Shatha Almutawa. Élise Franssen, a Belgian postdoctoral researcher, and Frédéric Bauden, a professor at the University of Liège, are creating an online database of paratextual elements in Arabic, Turkish, and Persian manuscripts in order to track the transmission of Middle Eastern books. By doing so they...