Publications

Publications

The formats Books, Lectures and Blog include those publications that have emerged during the work of the research program EUME and the previous program Working Group Modernity and Islam (AKMI). Among Fellows you will find selected publications of our fellows, Collegium includes publications of the EUME Collegium members. Please check the recordings of events in Audio/Video. Please find a detailed bibliography with publications by EUME and AKMI Fellows during or resulting from their research stay in Berlin here.

Litvin, Margaret

Red Mecca: The Life and Afterlives of the Arab-Soviet Romance

Princeton University Press, 2026

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Al-Haj Saleh, Yassin

The Attacks on an Open Letter to Iran’s Political Prisoners Are Misguided

TRAFO - Blog for Transregional Research, 2026

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Zoubi, Himmat

Palestine in Berlin

EUME Berliner Seminar, 5 May 2026

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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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A drawing of a fountain pen lying sideways, with one drop of red ink dripping from the pen's nib. Tied together on top is a pen that is broken in half.

Adam, Ahmed

Pedagogy Under Fire: Teaching Archaeology with WhatsApp during Sudan’s Civil War

TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2026

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A lecture hall with rows of metal desks and benches heavily damaged, debris and broken wood scattered across the floor, and sunlight entering through windows on the left.

Siamdoust, Nahid & H. E. Chehabi (eds.)

Iran Amplified: One Hundred Years of Music and Society

Harvard University Press, 2026

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El-Kouny, Nada / Assali, Hadeel

Who Owns a Story? Palestinian Memory, Family Archives, and the Ethics of Witnessing

TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2026

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Newspaper front page with a headline in Spanish about an attack on the Israeli embassy.

Behar, Daniel

Ghayath al-Madhoun in Hebrew Translation Today

TRAFO ‒ Blog for Transregional Research, 2026

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Hebrew text in a black font on a white background, arranged in six lines.

Scott Deuchar, Hannah

Translate and Rule: Justice, Arabic Literature, and the Colonial Archive

Stanford University Press, 2026

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Özdemir Taştan, İnan & Ülkü Doğanay

Navigating Urban Futures: Canal Istanbul and Contested Visions of Governance in Turkey

in: Urban Planning, 2026

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