In 2014, for the 27th time, the Congress of the Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants (UEAI) was held in Helsinki from June 2-6.

UEAI is one of Europe’s long-established Arabic scholarly societies, bringing together lecturers and researchers from leading European universities every two years since 1962 to report on their latest research. The conferences, which were originally open to scientists only, have in recent years made it possible for PhD students to give lectures. Therefore, this time Hungarian Arabic research was represented by a larger delegation than usual consisting of eight members, five from the Avicenna Institute of Middle Eastern Studies.

More about the conference programme here.

(From left to right: Lánczky István, Kis Anna Flóra, Szombathy Zoltán, Maróth Miklós, Schönléber Mónika)