Zeina G. Halabi reviews Palestinian novelist Adania Shibli’s price-winning book ‘Minor Detail’ and asks what is it about the novel that might have stirred translation anxiety and troubles the European cultural field?
By Alena Strohmaier. “Politics in the Middle East is now seen”, proclaimed political scientist and director of the Middle East and North Africa programme at Chatham House Lina Khatib in 2012, designating a new era of political activism in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
With Pascale Ghazaleh’s “Past Imperfect, Future Tense: Writing People’s Histories in the Middle East Today”, the fifth volume of the “Essays of the Forum Transregionale Studien” is now available open...
In this interview the celebrated Lebanese comics artist and illustrator Zeina Abirached talks with Rasha Chatta (EUME Fellow 2017–19) about the sources of inspiration for her work. Beirut has been...
This article is part of the TRAFO series “Emerging Topics. Insights from ‘Behind the Scenes’”. Today, we put the spotlight on the event “‘From the Ruins of Preservation’: A symposium...
By Rasha Chatta, Pascale Ghazaleh, Lamia Moghnieh, and Alia Mossallam From 12 to 14 July 2018, the Exploratory Workshop “Out of the Archives … New Archival Practices: Towards Alternative Historiographies,...
Von Lisa Gerlach Ein gutes Empfehlungsschreiben kann das Zünglein an der Waage sein, wenn es darum geht, eine neue Stelle anzutreten. Das gilt nicht nur für die Universität und auch...
From 7 to 9 December 2017, the Annual Conference 2017 “Chronologics: Periodisation in a Global Context” of the Forum Transregionale Studien and the Max Weber Stiftung took place at the...
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