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Thu 28 Mar 2024

Domicide: Architecture, War, and the Destruction of Home in Syria

Ammar Azzouz introduces his recently published book on domicide, the deliberate killing of home, on the TRAFO - Blog for …

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Thu 21 Mar 2024

EUME Berliner Seminar Summer Term 2024

In the Summer Term 2024, the Berliner Seminar will be continued under the theme »Legacies and Beginnings II«.

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Mon 11 Mar 2024

New audio recording published: Subversive Mimicry: Translating Zionist Children’s Literature into Arabic - Talk by Loaay Wattad

Audio recording of the talk by Loaay Wattad (EUME Fellow 2023/24) at the Berliner Seminar at 07 February 2024.

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Tue 05 Mar 2024

New audio recording published: The Palestinian Cultural-Artistic Scene: Fragments, Decoloniality and Hope - Talk by Himmat Zoubi

Audio recording of the talk by Himmat Zoubi (EUME Fellow 2018-24) at the Berliner Seminar

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Tue 27 Feb 2024

New audio recording published: Eco-Surrealism, Martyrdom, and the Future: Palestinian Magical Realism Meets Indigenous Climate Fiction - Talk by Sanabel Abdelrahman

Audio recording of the talk by Sanabel Abdelrahman (EUME Fellow 2023/24) at the Berliner Seminar 10 January 2024.

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Thu 22 Feb 2024

“The Deafening Silence from Academic Institutions (…) Serves as a Disheartening Deterrent”

5in10 with Loaay Wattad: The EUME fellow answers 5 questions about his research on Palestinian children's literature and …

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Tue 13 Feb 2024

New audio recording published: Inheriting Anatolia: Representation, Knowledge Production and Imagination - Talk by: Çiçek İlengiz

Audio recording of the talk by Çiçek İlengiz (Postdoctoral Researcher ERC BEYONDREST) at the Berliner Seminar 25 October …

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Thu 08 Feb 2024

Doing Research Under Current Ethics Regimes: Some Observations

Birgit Meyer shares some observations regarding data management and research ethics within the current ethics regimes in …

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Wed 31 Jan 2024

New audio recording published: The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures - Talk by: C. Ceyhun Arslan

Audio recording of the talk by C. Ceyhun Arslan (Koç University / EUME Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation …

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Wed 24 Jan 2024

New audio recording published: What is Left? Trajectories of Secular Politics in Post-2003 Iraq - Talk by Gennaro Gervasio

Audio recording of the talk by Gennaro Gervasio (U Roma Tre / EUME Fellow 2022-23) at the Berliner Seminar 22 November …

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Fri 19 Jan 2024

Introducing “Beyond Guidelines”: Navigating Mismatched Expectations between Research Ethics and Institutional Ethics Regimes

Banu Karaca kicks off the new BEYONDREST series on the TRAFO- Blog for Transregional Research.

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Wed 10 Jan 2024

New audio recording published:‘Affectueusement, Laila’: Being a ‘foreign’ Jewish communist woman in post-colonial Egypt - Talk by Rim Naguib

Audio recording of the talk by Rim Naguib (EUME Fellow 2019-23) at the Berliner Seminar, 29 November 2023.

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Thu 04 Jan 2024

Palestine and the Migrant Question in Postcolonial France

Bookreview of “Natives against Nativism: Antiracism and Indigenous Critique in Postcolonial France” by Olivia C. …

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Wed 03 Jan 2024

New audio recording published: Archives, Heritage and Discontent: Who Owns Egypt’s Past? - Talk by Pascale Ghazaleh

Audio recording of the talk by Pascale Ghazaleh (American University Cairo / EUME Fellow 2017-19) at the Berliner …

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Wed 20 Dec 2023

Resisting the Hobbesian Narrative: Hope and Morality in ‘The Hunger Games’

Loaay Wattad reflects on the evolution of hope and morality in dystopian narratives.

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Wed 13 Dec 2023

New audio recording published: On Endings: »Temporalities of Exiled Arab Magazines in the 1980s/90s« – Talk by Yvonne Albers

Audio recording of the talk by Yvonne Albers (Freie Universität Berlin/ EUME Fellow 2021-24) at the Berliner Seminar, 15 …

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Wed 29 Nov 2023
Wed 01 Nov 2023

New audio recording published: »Political Imagination and the Postcolonial in Contemporary Egypt« – Talk by Fouad Halbouni and Ismail Fayed

Audio recording of the talk by Fouad Halbouni (EUME Fellow 2021-23) in conversation with Ismail Fayed (independent …

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Mon 30 Oct 2023

Wissenschaftliche Gesprächsräume in Zeiten des Umbruchs

Das Forum Transregionale Studien begrüßt 50 Fellows aus über 23 Ländern.

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Tue 26 Sep 2023

EUME Fellows 2023/24

The research program Europe in the Middle East — The Middle East in Europe (EUME) welcomes its Fellows of 2023/24.

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