Struggle and Survival

Location: Forum Transregionale Studien, Wallotstraße 14, 14193 Berlin
5 - 6.30 pm

19 Oct | Halil Ibrahim Yenigün (Istanbul / EUME Fellow 2016/17)
The July 15 Failed Coup and the Demise of 'Islamic Democracy' in Turkey
Comment: Asef Bayat (University of Illinois / Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin 2016/17)
Chair: Georges Khalil (Forum Transregionale Studien / EUME)

02 Nov | Khaled Saghieh (Beirut / EUME Fellow 2016/17)
Manufacturing Hope and Despair: Print Media in Postwar Lebanon
Chair: Elias Khoury (Beirut / Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin 2016/17)

09 Nov | Adel Manna (Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem)
Nakba and Survival: The Story of Palestinians who Remained in Haifa and the Galilee, 1948-1956
Chair: Elias Khoury (Beirut / Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin 2016/17)

Tuesday, 15 Nov | Anne-Marie McManus (EUME-CNMS Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung 2016)
From Revolution to Authoritarianism: Algeria in Arabic Literature
Chair: Maaike Voorhoeve (EUME Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung 2016-18)

30 Nov | Hilal Alkan (Istanbul / EUME Fellow 2016/17)
& Nil Mutluer (Phillipp Schwartz Fellow at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
The Politics of Gender and Ethnicity in Turkey
Chair: Kader Konuk (Universität Duisburg-Essen / EUME)

14 Dec | Zeina G. Halabi (University of North Carolina / EUME Fellow 2012/13)
The Unmaking of the Arab Intellectual: Prophecy, Exile, and the Nation
Chair: Georges Khalil (Forum Transregionale Studien / EUME)

11 Jan | Amir Moosavi (EUME Fellow of the VolkswagenStiftung & A. W. Mellon Foundation 2016/17)
Writing the War Between Ambivalence and Loss: Arabic and Persian Literatures After the Iran-Iraq War
Chair: Sinan Antoon (NYU / Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin 2016/17 / EUME Fellow 2008/09)

25 Jan | Asef Bayat (University of Illinois / Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin 2016/17)
The Possibility (and Tensions) of 'Muslim Democracy'
Chair: Cilja Harders (Freie Universität Berlin / EUME)

08 Feb | Deniz Yonucu (EUME-ZMO Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung 2015-17)
Waiting Before the Law: Turkey's Anti-Terror Law and Legal Violence
Chair: Banu Karaca (Istanbul / EUME Fellow 2016/17)

15 Feb | Alia Mossallam (Cairo / EUME Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung 2017-19)
Popular Historiographic Practices: Documenting War, Loss and Sacrifice (in Song) in the 50s and 60s in Egypt
Chair: Michael Allan (University of Oregon / EUME-CNMS Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung 2017)