WoolfInstitute

An Exhibition of 17 projects in 30 minutes.

Founder Director of the Woolf Institute, Dr Ed Kessler and Executive Director Dr Esther-Miriam Wagner walk through the Woolf Institute's new exhibition ...

From the series

Middle Eastern Judaism and Islam: Music, Culture and People.

Episode 2: The Maqām in Jewish and Islamic Worship

In this episode Dr Merav Rosenfeld-Hadad explores the Maqām in ...

From the series

Middle Eastern Judaism and Islam: Music, Culture and People

Episode 1: Arabic Music in Middle Eastern Jewish Worship

In this episode Dr Merav Rosenfeld Hadad examines the histor...

A keynote speech by Torkel Brekke at the Woolf Institute's conference: Strictly Observant Religion, Gender and the State.

Torkel Brekke is a professor in the study of religion at the University of...

Baroness Hale talks about the relationship between the law and religious dress, introduced by Dr Ed Kesser MBE, Founder Director of the Woolf Institute.

President of The Supreme Court, The Right H...

As part of the Woolf Institute's Living in Harmony Project, Research Fellow Dr Merav Rosenfeld-Hadad talks to musicians Yair Dalal and Ahmed Mukhtar.

Yair Dalal was born in Israel in 1955, though ...

Faith and Fashion from London College of Fashion, UAL joins the Woolf Institute in Cambridge to explore the interplay of body management, gender, and religious cultures from a comparative perspecti...

Stephanie Forrest, PhD student at the Woolf Institute, shares her research on Diplomacy between Byzantium and the Umayyad Caliphate

Junior Research Fellow Tobias Müller shares his research on Fundamentalism, gender and the state

Samuel Victor, PhD student at the Woolf Institute, explains his research on ethical tensions in grassroots Evangelical outreach with Muslims

Dr Patrick Nash, Research Fellow at the Woolf Institute, shares his research, entitled 'Regulating Islam: Strategic review of English Civil Law'

Research Fellow Dr Merav Rosenfeld Hadad shares her research on Arabic music of Baghdadi and Halabi Jews and Muslims

Dr Lea Taragin Zeller, Research Fellow at the Woolf Institute, shares her research on encounters of gender, religion and belonging in the UK

Visiting speaker Imran Khan, from the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, shares his research on friendship in Islam with the Other

Visiting speaker Dr Paul Michael Kurtz, from the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, shares his research on the politics of ancient Judaism in 19th Century Germania

Affiliated lecturer Gorazd Andrejc shares his research on Abrahamic attitudes towards post-humanism and AI technology

Dunya Habash, Research and Outreach Officer at the Woolf Institute, shares her research on music and memory among Syrian musicians

Chris Cooper-Davies, the Woolf Institute's Honorary PhD scholar, shares his proposed research on Colonialism, state-formation and Sunni-shi'a sectarianism in monarchical Iraq

PhD student Amin El Yousfi shares his research on the Imama in Paris and London

Visiting speaker Alberto Winterberg, from the University of Oldenburg, shares his research on Coptic identity in Ottoman Egypt

Affiliated researcher Dr Matthew Machin-Autenrieth shares his research on the dynamics of intercultural music making in Granada

Affiliated Researcher Dr Mohamed Ahmed shares his research on Genizah Poetry

Dr John Muelller, Alumni and Supporter Relations Manager at the Institute, shares his research on the rise and fall of the German Jewish retailer