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

Apply now, until September 15, 2026.

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EUME Berliner Seminar Summer Term 2026

In the Summer Term 2026, the Berliner Seminar will be continued under the theme »What Now? Pt. II«.

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Electric Istanbul

New video series produced by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, with scientific direction by EUME Fellow Nurçin İleri.

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Hannah Arendt in Syrien

Yassin Al-Haj Saleh veröffentlicht seinen zweiten Band in der Schriftenreihe des Forum Transregionale Studien bei Matthes & Seitz Berlin

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EUME Fellows 2025/26

The research program “Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe” (EUME) welcomes its Fellows of 2025/26.

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Events

Mon 21 Sep 2026 – Tue 22 Sep 2026

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

Transregional Workshop convened by Rasha Chatta (Freie Universität Berlin / MECAM Fellow 2021) and Jasmin Wrobel (Ruhr-Universität Bochum / MECILA Thematic …

EUME Berliner Seminar
Wed 07 Oct 2026 | 17:00–18:30

Feminist Comics in Arab and Latin American Protest Cultures

Rasha Chatta (FU Berlin / EUME Fellow 2017-21) and Jasmin Wrobel (Ruhr U Bochum), Chair: Georges Khalil (EUME / Forum Transregionale Studien)

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: tba

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 (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 Saleh (MECAM / FTS)

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

Heritage Beyond the National Frame

Pascale Ghazaleh (AUC / EUME Fellow 2017-19), Chair: tba

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Publications

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Blogs

Khanlarzadeh, Mina

What They Don’t Like About the Guardian’s Letter to Iran’s Political Prisoners

TRAFO - Blog for Transregional Research, 2026

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Audio & Video

Halabi, Dalia

Cultural Capital of a Minoritized Elite: The Intersection of Class and Ethnonational Identities of the Emerging Palestinian Elite in Israel

EUME Berliner Seminar, 29 April 2026

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Fellows

Adam, Ahmed

The Kingdom of Makuria and its Civilization

Archaeopress, 2026

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Blogs

Moreno Almeida, Cristina / Natour, Hanan

New Podcast Series “Digital Al-Andalus: On the Record” – Imaginations of Al-Andalus and How History Returns in the Present