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)
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)
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)
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)
Wed 25 Nov 2026 | 17:00–18:30
Amazigh Cultural Artifacts in German Museums: Language Documentation, Recirculation and Fair Engagement
Valentina Schiattarella (MECAM Fellow 2025/26), Chair: Alia Mossallam (EUME Fellow 2016-27)
Wed 02 Dec 2026 | 17:00–18:30
Empire of Dust: Archaeology and the Making of Modern Egypt
Wendy Doyon (EUME Fellow 2024-27), Chair: Clara Abai (researcher, Berlin)
Scheiter, Anne Christina
‘Hama’ as a Figure of Memory – A Review
TRAFO - Blog for Transregional Research, 2026
Karaca, Banu
Preserving to Forget: Ottoman-Armenian Art and the Politics of Museum Taxonomies
History and Anthropology, 2026
İlengiz, Çiçek
Absented in Bergama, Preserved in Berlin: Towards a Reconceptualization of Archeological Preservation
History and Anthropology, 2026
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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