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‘Polarisation is good. Much better than an uneasy silence’ 21 November 2024If a young person from a migrant background climbs the social ladder despite internship discrimination, the exclusion often gets worse. It is only whe...
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A semester in Morocco: ‘You see the history that you’re learning about’ 14 March 2024The Netherlands Institute in Morocco is open to students from all Dutch universities. Two students explain why they are spending a semester studying i...
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The whole world knows the way to the Leiden institute in Morocco 05 March 2024A delegation from Leiden University visited the Netherlands Institute Morocco (Nimar) in Rabat at the end of February. For a whole host of disciplines...
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New research programme for urgent challenges in Africa 06 November 2023Leiden University and four other Dutch universities will appoint 51 PhD candidates to conduct solution-oriented research for and with the African cont...
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Knowledge exchange visit: Morocco as an intermediary between Africa and the Netherlands 26 August 2022Strengthening the cooperation between Moroccan, other African, and Dutch institutions for higher education. This was the focus of a two-day seminar at...
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LUCAS on a trip to NIMAR in Morocco 11 July 2022It was more than two years in the making, but despite the delays, giving up was not an option. In May, eighteen staff members of LUCAS and the Faculty...
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Check it out: NIMAR contributes to COBRA museum exhibition 07 July 2022This summer, the COBRA Museum will be focusing on Moroccan art. 'The other story' exhibition presents for the first time Moroccan modernism in the Net...
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How do European Muslims see their future? 30 May 2022Professor of Islam and the West Maurits Berger wants to use citizen science to answer this question. On the futureofislam.eu website, he is inviting E...
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Historian Nadia Bouras: ‘I wanted to succeed, for my parents and myself’ 06 July 2021In the Pioneers of Leiden University series, we talk to past and present students who were the first in their family to go to university. In this seco...
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Back to Rabat 10 June 2021The airspace had almost closed last year as Leiden students and staff rushed to leave the Netherlands Institute Morocco (NIMAR). How is this Leiden in...
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Fatiha Azzarhouni: ‘Even during Covid, Ramadan is about fasting' 12 May 2021Mosques with limited opening hours, fewer family visits and fewer events: for the second time, Ramadan was different due to Covid. Islamologist and de...
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Are you interested in Morocco? Take a minor in Rabat! 25 March 2021Students interested in the study of Morocco can enroll in English-taught minor ‘Culture and Society in Morocco’, starting in September at the NIMAR in...
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Sarah Michiel: ‘I’m looking forward to being back in the office’ 06 July 2020Sarah Michiel is the Institute Manager of NIMAR and has been living in Morocco since 2012. Due to the coronavirus, she has been working in Belgium sin...
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Eighteenth Century Dutch slaves in Morocco already had orientalist views 09 January 2020The idea that prejudices about the (Middle)-East came to be during the colonisation of North-Africa in the 19th century is false. Mounir el-Badri wrot...
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Teachers and lecturers broaden their perspective of Islam 19 November 2018Islam can be a difficult or sensitive subject to discuss with pupils, regardless whether they are Muslim. Fourteen secondary-school teachers and unive...