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.
Tania Al Saadi, Associate professor in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at Stockholm University, is the editor of the new anthology Eating Words: Food in Modern Arabic Literature.
On May 15 the reading group of Speculative Fiction within the open seminar series of the Master's Programme in Environmental Humanities will have it's fourth 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.
