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Mon 28 Sep 2026

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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Collage made out of 29 Portraits of the EUME Fellows 2026/27
Thu 24 Sep 2026

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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Program poster of the Berliner Seminar
Wed 16 Sep 2026

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 …

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Collage of black and white photographs that depict people in different situations
Wed 22 Jul 2026

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

MECAM Workshop convened by Rasha Chatta and Jasmin Wrobel

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Wed 03 Jun 2026

Career Perspectives Beyond Academia: Opportunities and Challenges for International Postdocs in Berlin/Germany

25 June 2026 | World Café organized by Forum Transregionale Studien and Berlin Research 50 (BR50), in cooperation with …

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Photo of three empty chairs on a street
Wed 18 Mar 2026

EUME Berliner Seminar Summer Term 2026

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

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Wed 21 Jan 2026

Electric Istanbul

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

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Photo of the Galata Bridge and tram lines illuminated with Osram lamps, c. 1910s. Atatürk Library, Istanbul.
Mon 08 Dec 2025

Hannah Arendt in Syrien

Yassin Al-Haj Saleh veröffentlicht seinen zweiten Band in der Schriftenreihe des Forum Transregionale Studien bei …

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Wed 01 Oct 2025

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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Tue 23 Sep 2025

EUME Berliner Seminar Winter Term 2025/26

In the Winter Term 2025/26, the Berliner Seminar will be continued with the question »What Now?«.

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Mon 15 Sep 2025

Dislocation and Heritage: On Radical Hope and Experiences of Loss in Aleppo/Syria

A new audio recording of the talk by Zoya Masoud (BEYONDREST / Forum Transregionale Studien) at the Berliner Seminar, 4 …

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Wed 13 Aug 2025

The Uprooted Olive Tree: Ecopolitics in Palestinian and Israeli Children’s Literature

A new audio recording of the talk by Loaay Wattad (EUME-FU Berlin Fellow of the Minerva Foundation 2025) at the Berliner …

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Mon 07 Jul 2025

Aşık/Alevi Music Revival and the Turkish Left in Turkey, 1960-1980

A new audio recording of the talk by Özgür Balkılıç (Fellow of the Gerda Henkel Foundation) at the Berliner Seminar, 21 …

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Wed 30 Apr 2025

After the End of the World: Another Season of War in South Lebanon

A new audio recording of the talk by Munira Khayyat (NYU Abu Dhabi) at the Berliner Seminar, 26 March 2025 is now …

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Wed 23 Apr 2025

Comparison and Scalar Reading: Niqula al-Haddad’s Translation of Ignatious Donnelly’s Caesar’s Column, a Tale of the 20th Century

A new audio recording of the talk by Samah Selim (Rutgers University / EUME) at the Berliner Seminar, 30 October 2024 is …

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Wed 16 Apr 2025

The History of the Egyptian Missile Project in the 1950s and 1960s

A new audio recording of the talk by Khaled Fahmy (Tufts University) at the Berliner Seminar, 09 October 2024 is now …

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Wed 09 Apr 2025

Ghost Writers of Upper Egypt: Arabic Field Diaries from Egypt and Sudan in the History of Archaeology

A new audio recording of the talk by Wendy Doyon (EUME Fellow 2024/25) at the Berliner Seminar, 15 January 2025 is now …

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Mon 17 Mar 2025

Writing Returns: The Poetics of Return in Palestinian Literature

A new audio recording of the talk by Ido Fuchs (Tel Aviv University / EUME Fellow 2024/25) at the Berliner Seminar, 18 …

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Mon 17 Mar 2025

EUME Berliner Seminar Summer Term 2025

In the Summer Term 2025, the Berliner Seminar will be continued under the theme »Limits and Possibilities II«.

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