News - Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages

The Autumn Schedule of 2023

Published Oct. 26, 2023 12:25 PM

CIMS Friday Seminars: A lecture series on the Middle East and Islam.

Published Jan. 28, 2021 2:58 PM

New research explains why the Kurds in Syria and Hamas in Gaza have stayed in power, while ISIS lost their legitimacy and rule in Iraq.

Public Defence: Piety and Power

Published June 9, 2019 2:57 PM

On Friday June 14th, 2019, Master Laila Makboul at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages will be defending her thesis "Pious Power: Epistemology, Discourses and Practices of Female Intellectual Preachers in Saudi Arabia" for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Published Feb. 22, 2017 2:03 PM

Three Doctoral or Postdoctoral Research Fellowships within the field of Environmental Humanities, connected to three ongoing research projects, are available at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS), University of Oslo.

Published May 20, 2014 10:10 AM

This article discusses how to make sense of the seeming paradox of the hitherto apolitical salafis forming parties and joining the competitive political scene.