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Since April 2022, the Forum’s events have again been held primarily in presence. In order to protect the health of participants, it is requested that they wear an FFP2 mask at events. Current information on Corona measures at universities and research institutions in Berlin can be found on the pages of the Berlin Senate Department for Higher Education and Research, Health, Long-Term Care and Gender Equality. Individual events can take place virtually. Except for the Fellow Talks format, all other events are open to all interested parties. Information on registration and access can be found in the information on the individual events.
Wed 29 Mar 2023 | 17:00–18:30

“You Have Driven Yourself from Your Home”: Israeli Propaganda and its Palestinian Subversion, 1959-1964
Shay Hazkani (University of Maryland), Chair: Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev / EUME)
Wed 12 Apr 2023 | 17:00–18:30

Independent Civic Activism and the Egyptian Revolution: A Gramscian Perspective
Gennaro Gervasio (Università Roma Tre / EUME Fellow 2022/23), Chair: Rim Naguib (EUME Fellow 2019-23)
Wed 19 Apr 2023 | 17:00–18:30

Unfortunately, it wasn't Paradise: On Mahmoud Darwish’s Song Poems
Diana Abbani (EUME Fellow 2020-23), Chair: Rasha Chatta (Freie Universität Berlin / EUME Fellow 2017-21)
Wed 26 Apr 2023 | 17:00–18:30

Post-2011 Language Politics in Morocco: Governing through ‘Failure’
Kaoutar Ghilani (EUME Fellow 2022/23), Chair: Zahiye Kundos (EUME Fellow 2020-23)
Wed 03 May 2023 | 16:00–18:30

German African Studies through the Lens of Critical Race Theory
Serawit Debele (Universität Bayreuth), Stephanie Lämmert (MPG / Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), and Yusuf Serunkuma (Universität Halle-Wittenberg), Chair: …
Wed 10 May 2023 | 17:00–18:30

Musical Remains and Songs in Syrian Prisons and Exile
Eylaf Bader Eddin (SYRASP / EUME Fellow), Chair: Lidia Kuzemska (Prisma Ukraïna Fellow 2022-23)
Wed 17 May 2023 | 17:00–18:30

Against the Governments’ Necropolitics: The “We will Stop Femicide Platform” in Turkey
Inan Özdemir Taştan (EUME Fellow 2021-23), Chair: Lana Sirri (University of Amsterdam / EUME Fellow 2023-24)
Wed 24 May 2023 | 17:00–18:30

The Soviet Union as ‘Future’: The Socialist Imaginary of Lebanese Leftists, 1920-1948
Sana Tannoury-Karam (Lebanese American University / EUME Fellow 2020-23), Chair: Oraib Toukan (EUME Fellow 2020-23)
Wed 31 May 2023 | 17:00–18:30

Working for the Kaiser (and Being Treated Unfairly): Ottoman-German Archaeological Encounters in Theodore Macridy’s Letters
Filiz Tütüncü Çağlar (EUME Fellow 2020-23), Chair: tba
Wed 07 Jun 2023 | 17:00–18:30

On Dignity in Contemporary Arab Political Thought and Practices
Saphe Shamoun (Columbia University / EUME Fellow 2022/23) in conversation with Yassin al-Haj Saleh (writer / EUME Fellow 2019) and Leyla Dakhli (CNRS / Centre …
Wed 14 Jun 2023 | 17:00–18:30

Can the Colonial Archive be a Source of Anti-Colonial Struggle? Listening to Recorded Voices of North African Prisoners of War in the Berliner Lautarchiv
Alia Mossallam (EUME Fellow 2017-23) in conversation with Adam Benkato (UC Berkeley)
Wed 21 Jun 2023 | 17:00–18:30

Haifa 1948: The Unmaking of the Palestinian City and the Struggle for Democratic Urban Governance
Himmat Zoubi (EUME Fellow 2018-23), Chair: Hashem Abushama (University of Oxford / EUME Fellow 2023-25)
Wed 28 Jun 2023 | 17:00–18:30

On Endings: Temporalities of Exiled Arab Magazines in the 1980s/90s
Yvonne Albers (Freie Universität Berlin / EUME Fellow 2021-23), Chair: Amir Moosavi (Rutgers University—Newark / EUME Fellow 2016/17)
Wed 05 Jul 2023 | 17:00–18:30

Poetics and Politics of Jina Amini Revoutionary Uprising in Iran
Fatemeh Shams (University of Pennsylvania / EUME Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 2021-23), Chair: Anne-Marie McManus (SYRASP / EUME Fellow)
Wed 12 Jul 2023 | 17:00–18:30

Political Imagination and the Postcolonial in Contemporary Egypt
Fouad Halbouni (EUME Fellow 2021-23) in conversation with Ismail Al-Bahar (Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm)