Iqbal, German Orientalism and the Making of Modern Mysticism
By Razak Khan This article is part of the TRAFO Series “40 Years After Orientalism”. I emphasize in it accordingly that neither the term Orient nor the concept of the...
By Razak Khan This article is part of the TRAFO Series “40 Years After Orientalism”. I emphasize in it accordingly that neither the term Orient nor the concept of the...
Alain Zysset is a Lecturer in Public Law at the School of Law, University of Glasgow. In the academic year 2019/2020, he is a Fellow of re:constitution – Exchange and Analysis...
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...
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...
Students at London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) have set up a campaign to “Decolonise Our Minds”, demanding a transformation of the curriculum, which caused outrage in the...
by Merle Ingenfeld Warum berührt uns der Tod tausender Flüchtlinge auf dem Mittelmeer weniger als der unserer Haustiere? Weshalb entstehen politischer Widerstand und Aufruhr am ehesten dort, wo Menschen...
von Dorothea Gädeke This article is part of the TRAFO series “Doing Global International Relations”. Globalizing International Relations (IR) is a requirement built into the very construction of the discipline...
By Timo Bonengel “In its bare reality, decolonization reeks of red-hot cannonballs and bloody knives”1. This is how French philosopher and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon captures the relation between decolonization and...
Jay L. Garfield (Professor of Humanities, Yale-NUS College in Singapore) and Bryan W. Van Norden (Professor of Philosophy at Vassar College) claim on the Opinion Pages of the New York...
by Yazan Doughan, Nada Moumtaz, Karim Sadek Report on the EUME Workshop “Authority, Tradition and Critique in the Modern State” that was held on June 22, 2015 at the Forum Transregionale...