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.
Aydın, Delal
Friendship in Revolution: Politics of Life in Kurdish Mobilisation
EUME Berliner Seminar, 15 April 2026
Adam, Ahmed
Pedagogy Under Fire: Teaching Archaeology with WhatsApp during Sudan’s Civil War
in: Public Humanities, 2026
El-Kouny, Nada / Assali, Hadeel
Who Owns a Story? Palestinian Memory, Family Archives, and the Ethics of Witnessing
TRAFO – Blog for Transregionale Research, 2026
Behar, Daniel
Ghayath al-Madhoun in Hebrew Translation Today
TRAFO ‒ Blog for Transregionale Research, 2026
Scott Deuchar, Hannah
Translate and Rule: Justice, Arabic Literature, and the Colonial Archive
Stanford University Press, 2026
Natour, Hanan
Humanities scholars have the ability and responsibility to bridge clashing worldviews – 5in10 with Hanan Natour
TRAFO - Blog for Transregionale Research, 2026
Özdemir Taştan, İnan & Ülkü Doğanay
Navigating Urban Futures: Canal Istanbul and Contested Visions of Governance in Turkey
in: Urban Planning, 2026
Kandeel, Ammar
Writing Poetry and Writing Criticism are not at all Distinct Categories of Creation – 5in10 with Ammar Kandeel
TRAFO - Blog for Transregionale Research, 2026
Litvin, Margaret, Anas Farhan, Gideon Gordon [Translation]
Memoirs of a Palestinian Communist: The Secret Life of Najati Sidqi
Texas University Press, 2025
de Cesari, Chiara
Creative (Trans)Institutionalism: Experiments with Return, Restitution and Repair from the ‘Pressing Matter’ Project
EUME Berliner Seminar, 1 December 2025
Polatsek, Omri
Food is Where all my Interests Meet – 5in10 with Omri Polatsek
TRAFO ‒ Blog for Transregional Research, 2026
Scott Deuchar, Hannah
The Arabic Typewriter: Towards a Global History
EUME Berliner Seminar, 17 December 2025
Khanlarzadeh, Mina
Epistemic Translation of Modernity: Negotiating Science and Technology under Semi-Colonial Conditions
in: Comparative Studies in Society and History, 2026
Lafi, Nora & Suaad Alghafal
Heritage Protection in Ghadames, Libya: Dâr al-Qâdî as a Laboratory of Community-Based Practices
in: Plateia, 2026
Fuchs, Ido
The future of the ghost: absence, haunting, and returning in contemporary Palestinian cultural production
in: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 2025
Natour, Hanan
Liberation, Emancipation and Decoloniality in Modern Tunisian Fiction
EUME Berliner Seminar, 7 January 2026
