How is World Literature Pedagogy for the Public?
By May Hawas Politicising World Literature: Egypt between Pedagogy and the Public grew out of two sets of convictions, each with their own contradictions. The first is the belief in...
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Omnia El Shakry: Psychoanalysis and the Imaginary – Translating Freud in Postcolonial Egypt
On 11th and 12th April 2019, the workshop “Power in Medicine: Interrogating the Place of Medical Knowledge in the Modern Middle East” took place in Berlin. It was organized by...
Psychoanalysis and the Imaginary: Translating Freud in Postcolonial Egypt — Interview with Omnia El Shakry
On 11th and 12th April 2019, the workshop “Power in Medicine: Interrogating the Place of Medical Knowledge in the Modern Middle East” will take place in Berlin. It is organized...
The Art Salon in the Arab Region
By Nadia von Maltzahn and Monique Bellan The Art Salon in the Arab Region: Politics of Taste Making discusses the emergence and role of the art salon in the Arab...
“I have always been intrigued by questions of norm and difference, majority and minority.” – 5in10 with Malak Labib
Malak Labib received her doctorate from Aix-Marseille University / Institut de Recherche sur le Monde Arabe et Musulman (2015) and her MA from Sciences Po Paris (2005). Her background is...
Arabischer Patriotismus: Kulturpolitik und nationale Ideologie im modernen Ägypten
von Adam Mestyan Original English version below 2016 publizierte die Ägyptische Nationalbibliothek eine Neuauflage des Essays „Buch des Patriotismus“ von Muhammad Akhtar, das erstmals 1893 mit Genehmigung der Pressestelle des...
Child Custody in Islamic Law: Theory and Practice in Egypt Since the Sixteenth Century
By Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim This monograph takes as its central theme the following paradox: while Muslim jurists canonized most of the laws of child custody in the eighth-eleventh centuries, changes...
The Arab Sartre, Existentialism and Decolonization. A Conversation
Following Yoav di-Capua’s (EUME-AvH Fellow 2017-18) EUME Berliner Seminar presentation in March 2018 on his new book No Exit: Arab Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre and Decolonization, he sat down with Margaret...
Looking Back at the “1979 Moment” in the Middle East
This article is part of the TRAFO Series “The ‘1979 Moment’ in the Middle East”. By Amir Moosavi On June 15-16, 2017, in the framework of Europe in the Middle...
“I have remained ambivalent towards polished narratives” – 5in10 with Pascale Ghazaleh
Pascale Ghazaleh is an Associate Professor of History at the American University in Cairo. She specializes in Ottoman history and 19th-century Egypt. She received her PhD in History from the...
