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Wednesday 31 October 2018

13th Conference of Arabists

13th Conference of Arabists 13th Conference of Arabists

 
The conference covered a vast variety of issues.

These topics were: socio-cultural, religious, geopolitical dimensions of history and that day situation in the Middle Eastern and North African region, in order to outline the most crucial and promising aspects of modern research on Arab history.

The issues were the following:

  1. Methodology and methodic approaches to the regional research of the Arab-Muslim  world.
  2. Islam and Christianity in the Arab-Muslim world: specifics of cultural and religious interactions.
  3. The ethnic and cultural minorities of the Middle East and North Africa, the general and individual traits of their historical existence.
  4. The nature and particularities of the state in the Middle East: the dilemma of tradition vs. modernization.
  5. Source studies in the history of the Middle East: challenges and current problems.
  6. Russia in the Middle East and North Africa (1700 – 2018): interests, scenarios, and opportunities.

 List of participants:

  1. Nikolay Dyakov (Russia)
  2. Victor Dyatlov (Russia)
  3. Igor Gerasimov (Russia)
  4. Tatiana Kalinina (Russia)
  5. Habib Kazdaghli (Tunisia)
  6. Hugh N. Kennedy (Great Britain)
  7. Svetlana Kirillina (Russia)
  8. Alexander Knysh (USA)
  9. Taras Kobishchanov (Russia)
  10. Gudrun Krämer (Germany)
  11. Nikita Krayushkin (Russia)
  12. Andrey Lukashev (Russia)
  13. Dmitry Mikulsky (Russia)
  14. Dmitry Mishin (Russia)
  15. Vladimir Orlov (Russia)
  16. Eugene Rogan (Great Britain)
  17. Ibrahim Sammak (Saudi Arabia)
  18. Andrea Barbara Schmidt (Belgium)
  19. Irina Varyash (Russia)
  20. Evgeny Zelenev (Russia)
  21. Dmitry Zhantiev (Russia)