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Dr. Pavel Hons with Nataraja Siriranjan during his visit at the Oriental Institute. Nataraja Siriranjan is the author of a very important dictionary of the Jaffna dialect of Sri Lankan Tamil.

Adéla Provazníková v analytickém komentáři na serveru Alarm pojednala několik nedávných kontroverzí spojených s českou pozicí vůči izraelsko-palestinskému konfliktu. ...

Ondřej Klimeš a Jarmila Ptáčková představili 12. 2. na konferenci Vědecké přednášky držitelů Akademické prémie a prémie Lumina quaeruntur AV ČR svůj projekt Vyvažování zájmů: souvislosti národnostní a zahraniční politiky soudobé ČLR (2019-2024).

We are pleased to announce the publication of a new book edited by our colleagues Jarmila Ptáčková and Ondřej Klimeš: Cultural Security in Contemporary China and Mongolia (AUP, 2025) This book explores cultural security not only as a state-driven process but also as a dynamic, bottom-up ...

Martin Blahota presented his paper “Nomadic Spirituality in Xiao Hong’s Field of Life and Death” on Friday, 7 February 2025, at the CATS Forum, Heidelberg University, Germany. For more info about the project, see https://martinblahota. ...

Vědecký pracovník Orientálního ústavu Tomáš Petrů v souvislosti s 4. výročím vojenského převratu v Barmě komentoval dění v zemi pro ČT24.

This study examines how Saudi Salafism, as a modern ideological construct, has gradually linked the theological teachings about the monotheism of the Divine names and attributes (tawḥīd al-asmāʾ wa-l-ṣifāt) of the Ḥanbalī scholar Ibn Taymiyya (1263–1328) with the teachings of his later Ḥanbalī ...

Analysts have been quick to view the swift collapse of Bashar al-Asad’s regime in Syria as a fatal and final blow to the so-called Axis of Resistance: the network of Iranian proxies spanning from Lebanon to Yemen. ...

Deputy Director Kevin L. Schwartz edited the latest issue of the Middle East Research & Information Project (MERIP) "Resistance- The Axis and Beyond" (Winter 2024). ...

Reysa Alenzuela, Head Librarian of the Oriental Institute Library, has been honored with the 2024 ASLP Citation Awards Category A - an award for the “Most Outstanding Service and Dedication to the Cause of the Association. ...