New research into attitudes of 15-year-olds in Middle Eastern nation shows that the practice of brutal vigilante justice, predominantly against young women, for perceived slights against family ‘honour’ still holds sway for significant proportions of the adolescent population.
Parody as resistance, religious broadcasting in the Arab world and China’s relationship with the Gulf will all come under scrutiny as academics from Cambridge’s Centre of Islamic Studies gather in the Gulf on March 10.
A debate at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas asks What next for the Arab Spring?
Among the numerous treasures at Cambridge University Library are the private documents of the explorer, John Lewis Burckhardt, who rediscovered Petra 200 years ago today.
Complacency among democratic countries who think they can just “muddle through” could make them unable to tackle long-term problems like climate change, a University of Cambridge academic told the Hay Festival earlier this month.
A conference exploring Chinese perspectives of the Middle East and the Islamic world, at a time when China’s interest in the region is growing, will take place in Beijing later this week.
New research shows true picture of what and who is behind the political uprisings.
A conference which aims to establish wider recognition for a "Judaeo-Islamic tradition"; the shared, cultural past common to Muslims, Arabs and Jews, will take place in Cambridge this weekend.
Islamic Studies specialists from the Universities of Cambridge and Sarajevo are to exchange perspectives on religion and politics in a country which has experienced both renewal and reintegration following ethnic conflict in the 1990s.
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