Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo

The NVIC is part of the Leiden University offering Arabic language courses to Dutch and Belgian students. It is a research institute focusing on Egypt (archaeology) and the Arab world (language and regional studies). The institute employs two assistant-directors, one in the field of Arabic studies and one for Egyptology. Apart from that, we have Egyptian and foreign teachers (7 in total) and employ a number of administrative staff. The Leiden university is the main beneficiary but in total 9 Universities from both Netherlands and Belgium support the institute. Yearly we organize the Cleveringa seminar and last year finished the Islam project (a 4 year project mapping Islamic actors in social media) which was funded by the Dutch Embassy.