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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. ...

Martin Novosad, a native of Vizovice in Moravia, was the first citizen of former Czech oslovakia to become a Buddhist monk. After his entry into the Buddhist community (saṅgha), which took place at Island Hermitage in Ceylon in 1938, he received the monastic name Ñāṇasatta Thera from the ...

In China, enhancing patriotic sentiments through patriotic education is seen by the Chinese Communist party as the means to achieve the “Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. ...

The edited volume Provincialising Pluralism: Difference and Diversity in South Asian Traditions, co-edited by Oriental Institute scholar James Madaio, has been published.

This conference examines the history of non-Muslim communities in Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Iran during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. ...

Listen to Deputy Director Kevin Schwartz discuss the aftermath of Israel's attack on Qatar, the Iran-Israel War, and more with Shana Marshall (George Washington University) and Maziyar Ghiabi (University of Exeter) on the latest episode of The MERIP Podcast "On Regional War". https://shows. ...

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The Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences hosted a hybrid AI Knowledge Café on September 5, 2025, as part of the Artificial Intelligence for Science and Society – AV21 Strategy Program IV. ...

Along with Daniela Bevilacqua (CRIA) and Lucian Wong (OCHS), James Madaio is co-organizing an interdisciplinary workshop entitled Self in Motion: Transformative Practice in South Asian Traditions in Lisbon at the Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (CRIA). ...