The Department of Orientology (Vostochnyi fakultet) hosted an annual international conference on historiography and of Asian and African Studies. This year the conference was organized around the theme “Asia and Africa in a Changing World”. (more…)

Oleg Sokolov, the first-year MA student of the Department of Orientology (Vostochnyi fakultet) and member ofthe Laboratory for Analysis and Modeling of Social Processes, presented a paper to the 37th Annual Session of Arabic Studies Scholars of Saint-Petersburg, which took place between 6 and 8 of April, 2015, at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts (Russian Academy of Sciences).

The title of his paper was “The image of the Mujahid in ISIS and Al-Qaeda journals”.