July 30, 2018
Striking from the Margins: Religion, State, and Disintegration in the Middle East, a research project founded by Central European University’s Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Visiting Professor Aziz Al-Azmeh, seeks a nuanced and dynamic understanding of the transformations of religion in relation of state and social structures in Syria and Iraq over the past three decades.
February 3, 2018
Gyorgy Gereby, associate professor in CEU's Department of Medieval Studies, is delivering the Isaiah Berlin Lectures at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford this semester as part of the Isaiah Berlin Visiting Professorship, which brings leading scholars in the history of philosophy or history of ideas to Oxford. Named after the great British philosopher and founding president of Wolfson College, Sir Isaiah Berlin, the lectures were established in 2004.
November 7, 2017
Video of Shamel Azmeh - Syria’s Passage to Uprising and Conflict
November 7, 2017
Video of Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi - Why is the Quranic Text Problematic?
July 31, 2017
Harith Hasan al-Qarawee, a fellow in CEU's Center for Religious Studies is quoted in this Arab Weekly article on how the Iraqi state system limits career opportunities for Iraqis.
http://www.thearabweekly.com/Economy/8982/Iraq%E2%80%99s-chronic-mismatch-between-education%2C-employment