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EUME Fellows 2026/27

The research program “Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe” (EUME) welcomes its Fellows of 2026/27.

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EUME Berliner Seminar Winter Term 2026/27

In the Winter Term 2026/27, the Berliner Seminar will be continued under the question »Aftermath as Beginning?«.

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New Series on the TRAFO – Blog

Diasporas, Exiles, Migrants, and Refugees from Europe in the Middle East and North Africa from the 18th to the 21st Century

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Imagining Feminist Futures Across the Global South: Comics in Protest Cultures

MECAM Workshop convened by Rasha Chatta and Jasmin Wrobel

MECAM

Call for Contributions: Thematic focus on technology, conflict and coloniality

Apply now, until September 15, 2026.

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Events

EUME Berliner Seminar
Tue 13 Oct 2026 | 17:00–18:30

The Shudder Remains: Voice, Body, and Affect in Contemporary Palestinian Poetry

Daniel Behar (Hebrew U of Jerusalem / EUME Fellow 2026/27), Chair: Maysoon Shibi (FU Berlin)

EUME Berliner Seminar
Wed 21 Oct 2026 | 17:00–18:30

Protest in a Post-Gramscian Moment: From the Middle East to Liberal Democracies

Asef Bayat (BIM, HU Berlin / U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Chair: Myriam Ahmed (INTERACT / FU Berlin)

EUME Berliner Seminar
Wed 28 Oct 2026 | 17:00–18:30

Memories of Violence: The Hama Massacre (1982) in Syrian Literature

Anna Christina Scheiter (Albert-Ludwigs-U Freiburg), Chair: Rashof Salih (MECAM / FTS)

EUME Berliner Seminar
Wed 04 Nov 2026 | 17:00–18:30

The Shape of Things That Did Not Come: Arabic Science Fiction and Palestine’s 1940s Belle Époque

Eli Osheroff (EUME Fellow 2025-27), Chair: Liron Mor (U of California, Irvine / EUME Fellow 2026/27)

EUME Berliner Seminar
Wed 11 Nov 2026 | 17:00–18:30

Heritage Beyond the National Frame

Pascale Ghazaleh (AUC / EUME Fellow 2017-19), Chair: Georges Khalil (EUME / Forum Transregionale Studien)

EUME Berliner Seminar
Wed 18 Nov 2026 | 17:00–18:30

Religion, Marxism, and Social Change: Emile Tuma’s Social Movements in Islam

Abed Kanaaneh (Tel Aviv U / EUME Fellow 2026/27), Chair: Florian Zemmin (FU Berlin)

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Publications

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Blogs

Wattad, Loaay

When a Wall Enters a Children’s Story: Reality and Imagination in Palestinian and Israeli Children’s Literature

TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2026

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Blogs

Potter, Florence

All’s Well That Ends Well? A Visit to the Deutschlandmuseum

TRAFO - Blog for Transregional Research, 2026

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Fellows

Ghazaleh, Pascale

Heritage Without People, Heritage Without Time: The Preservation Paradigm in Contemporary Egypt

History and Anthropology, 2026

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Fellows

Karaca, Banu and Çiçek İlengiz

Beyond Preservation: Decolonizing the Conceptual Framework of Cultural Heritage