Conflict and Mobility: Urban Space, Youth and Social Transformations
by Georges Khalil Photos: Georges Khalil (CC-BY-NC-ND) “Conflict and Mobility: Urban Space, Youth and Social Transformations” is the theme of the International Summer Academy which the Max Weber...
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Lecture by Yuval Evri (Tel Aviv University / EUME Fellow 2013-14), introduced by Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin (Ben Gurion University of the Negev / EUME). Abstract: The return to “al-Andalus” and...
View Article“New discoveries change old perceptions and generate new questions that keep...
Peter Webb taught classical Arabic Literature and History at SOAS (2009-14) and at the American University of Paris (2013-14). He has published a number of scholarly articles and book chapters on...
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By Refqa Abu-Remaileh “Is my trust to be shaken in our freedom to long for this land in this land – for Haifa in Haifa?” wrote Emile Habibi (1922-1996), the well-known Palestinian politician,...
View ArticleCall for Applications: Zukunftsphilologie Summer Academy in Cape Town
In the framework of the research program Zukunftsphilologie: Revisiting the Canons of Textual Scholarship, Forum Transregionale Studien and the Max Weber Foundation – German Humanities Institutes...
View Article“Arabic helps me to understand cultural differences in very simple...
Hans-Peter Pökel joined the Orient-Institut Beirut as a research associate in 2014. Previously, he worked as a Junior Lecturer at Freie Universität Berlin where he taught Classical Arabic literature...
View Article„All things transregional?“ in conversation with… Claudia Derichs
What does Transregional Research mean? Who can learn from its insights? What are its limits? The interview series “All Things Transregional?” addresses these issues to launch an open discussion. We...
View Article“Violence, Be It Visible or Invisible, Shapes All of Our Lives” – 5in10 with...
Sarah El Bulbeisi joined the Orient-Institut Beirut in November 2019 after completing her PhD at the Institute for Near and Middle East Studies at the LMU Munich, Germany. Prior to that, she worked as...
View Articleلماذا تهمّ اللغات غير الأوروبية الإنسانيات الأوروبية: دراسات المناطق وفقه...
The English version of this text can be found here. كريستيان يونغي (الدراسات العربية، جامعة ماربورغ، ألمانيا) [1] لا شك أنَّ اللغة الإنكليزية هي اللغة الأكاديمية السائدة في عصرنا، لا سيما في العلوم...
View ArticleWhy Non-European Languages Matter to European Humanities: Area Studies and...
.تجد/ين هنا النسخة العربية لهذا النص. Christian Junge (Arabic Studies, University of Marburg, Germany) Christian Junge. Photo by Judith Affolter. English is, without doubt, the dominant academic...
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