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NINO Director's office

Director’s office of the Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO), Witte Singel 25, Leiden, Room 1.20.

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  • The ups and downs of an academic institute during wartime

    story by De Kostgangers.

    This is the story of a small academic institute during the Second World War, called NINO: the Netherlands Institute for the Near East, founded in 1939 in Leiden. The story is told by the current director of NINO: Willemijn Waal. Look around her office and read and hear her speak about the institute and its challenges during the war.

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