This article is part of the TRAFO series ‘Emerging Topics. Insights from ‘Behind the Scenes’. Today, we put the spotlight on the workshop “Reading the ‘1979 Moment’ in the Middle...
Michael Allan is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon, where he is also program faculty in Cinema Studies, Arabic and Middle East Studies. He is the...
Hilal Alkan received her PhD in Political Science from the Open University, UK and her MA in Sociology from Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. In her dissertation, titled “Enchanted Welfare: Islamic Imaginary...
Khaled Saghieh began his career as a journalist in 1998 at the Lebanese daily al-Safir. Until 2011, he was the deputy editor-in-chief of the daily al-Akhbar. Between 2012 and 2015,...
Margaret Litvin is a historian of modern Arabic (primarily Egyptian) literature and theatre. Since 2014 she has been Associate Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at Boston University. Her first book, “Hamlet’s...
Since 2012 Ela Gezen has been Assistant Professor of German at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research and teaching focus on 20th century German and Turkish literature and culture, with emphases on...
Nadine Abdalla is a Cairo-based political scientist and currently a Fellow of Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe (EUME) 2015/16. Her research focuses on social mobilizations in...
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