Dr Richard van Leeuwen
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Dr Richard van Leeuwen is enriching our collaborative research project with a focus on the European discovery of the Arabian Nights and its impact on the field of literature. He is preparing an annotated literary anthology of texts influenced by the Arabian Nights and together with Jan Loop he is organising a public event celebrating the life and work of Antoine Galland in autumn 2015.
Dr van Leeuwen is also invovled as a guest curator of the exhibition 400 Years of Arabic Studies in the Netherlands and as the co-author of its catalog.
Dr van Leeuwen is lecturer in Islamic Studies at the Department of Religious Studies of the University of Amsterdam, where he works on the history of the Middle East, Arabic literature, and Islam in the modern world.