By Sana Tannoury-Karam, with translations by Fatima Kassem Moussa. In 1918, Omar el-Zeenni looked around him and declared “The world is madness”. Indeed, by the end of the First World War, el-Zeenni’s world was turning upside down. Born in Beirut in 1895, Omar el-Zeenni belonged to the “last Ottoman generation” that had come of age in the last few years of the Ottoman empire’s existence and whose politicization occurred during the First World War.
By Nazan Maksudyan Katrin Bromber, Katharina Lange, Heike Liebau, Anorthe Wetzel (eds.), The Long End of the First World War: Ruptures, Continuities and Memories (Frankfurt: Campus, 2018). British futurist writer,...
By Andreas Rose The origins of the First World War in general and Britain’s foreign policy in the decades prior to 1914 in particular belong to the most researched topics...
This article is part of the TRAFO series “Emerging Topics. Insights from ‘Behind the Scenes’”. Today, we put the spotlight on the conference “The European Industrial Heritage of the First...
By Helena Kaschel & Luisa Pischtschan This September, scholars from around the world met an interested public at the Deutsches Historisches Museum (DHM) Berlin to find new ways of...
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research is a platform for scholars in the humanities and social sciences who are interested in transregional exchange and research on current issues. TRAFO is the blog of the Forum Transregionale Studien (Berlin) and the Max Weber Stiftung – Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland (Bonn).
ISSN: 2199-2134
TRAFO works in editorial partnerhips with:
