Welcome to the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies!
We conduct education and research in the Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages, as well as area studies within the two main areas: Asian Languages and Cultures and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures.
On February 6th a new reading group of Speculative Fiction within the open seminar series of the Master's Programme in Environmental Humanities will have it's first meeting. It is lead by professor Andrew Jones, Department of Archaeology and Classical studies and Elisa Viteri Márquez, PhD student at the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.
We are happy and proud to congratulate Isa Blumi who was recently appointed Professor in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at Stockholm University.
On December 3, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared a state of military emergency and so-called martial law, which was lifted after only a few hours.
Isa Blumi, Associate Professor and Docent of Middle Eastern Studies at Stockholm University, is now a member of the editorial board of Edinburgh University Press, Encounters in the Middle East and Asia.
With Andrii Matskevych, Associate Professor and coordinator of the Arabic Language and Literature Programme at the The Professor Yaroslav Dashkevych Department of Oriental Studies at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine.
With Andrii Matskevych, Associate Professor and coordinator of the Arabic Language and Literature Programme at the The Professor Yaroslav Dashkevych Department of Oriental Studies at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine.