Media and Announcements

Starting in March, the team of the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences will be joined by Mgr. Michaela Pejčochová, Ph.D., who will take over the coordination of our Taiwan branch. ...

The CLOSER project investigates the interplay between party politics and social cleavages in the post-Ottoman space of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). It involves today’s Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Palestine, Tunisia, and Turkey, covering a period from 1908 to the present. ...

The CLOSER project investigates the interplay between party politics and social cleavages in the post-Ottoman space of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). It involves today’s Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Palestine, Tunisia, and Turkey, covering a period from 1908 to the present. ...

Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in the study of religion and culture of South Asia, with a particular focus on Islam and its interactions with South Asian religious and cultural traditions. ...

Join us for a one-day academic workshop exploring how identity is constructed, mobilised, and governed in contemporary South and Southeast Asia. ...

We warmly invite you to a lecture by our colleague Jarmila Ptáčková, which will take place on Wednesday, 11 February 2026, at 6:00 PM at the Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften (IAAW) in Berlin and online via Zoom. ...

Současné protesty v Íránu byly spuštěny především ekonomickými problémy, rychle se ale proměnily v širší odpor vůči politickému a společenskému systému. Protesty zasáhly řadu regionů země a zapojily se do nich různé společenské vrstvy. ...

Shortly before X-Mas a new article by Thomas Loy was published in the Journal of Jewish Languages. This article examines the linguistic and historical significance of Rakhamim, a Bukharan Jewish newspaper published in Russian Turkestan from 1910 to 1914/1916. ...

Despite the rise of digital media over the past decades, print books have not only persisted but thrived. In countries as diverse as France, the Czech Republic, and Egypt, numbers of titles published annually continue to grow. ...

Scores of young men and women were killed by regime forces during the Arab Spring in Egypt (2011–2013). Their photographs assumed iconic proportions, meandering online and off through countless acts of creative remediation. ...