By Francesco Anselmetti. A Flood in Baʿath Country, the 2003 documentary by Syrian filmmaker Omar Amiralay, opens with a stark confession on the director’s behalf. His career had begun in the early 1970s with a panegyric to the Baʿathist project of modernisation glorifying the construction of the Tabqa Dam on the Euphrates, near the northern Syrian city of Raqqa.
Von Iwona Dadej Gläserne Decke in der Wissenschaft? Fehlende Anerkennung der weiblichen wissenschaftlichen Leistung und ein erschwerter Zugang zu bestimmten Positionen im akademischen Betrieb? Vielseitige Förderprogramme für angehende Wissenschaftlerinnen, damit...
In her paper “Towards the production of meaning – Visualising, Enacting and Writing Histories in times of political upheaval”, Alia Mossallam dealt with the issue of how moments of political...
In this talk entitled “Portable Labour Rights for Migrant Workers in North America”, Xóchitl Bada looks at “glocalized” campaigns for international migrant workers and their portability in linking local worker...
Stefan Tetzlaff, social and economic historian and former research fellow at the German Historical Institute Washington, had the chance to interview Michael Gadbaw, former vice-president and Senior Counsel of General Electric (1990-2008) about his involvement with India.
von Rachid Ouaissa (Philipps-Universität Marburg) Meine eigene akademische Verortung Seit Februar 2009 leite ich das Fachgebiet Politik des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens am Zentrum für Nah- und Mittelost-Studien (CNMS)...
Cooperative research on developments in the Arab world is a challenge for all concerned The transformation processes in the Arab world triggered by the ‘Arab Spring’ 2010/2011 are also an...
Concept: Jens Boysen / Steffi Marung / Gesche Schifferdecker At first glance, our time appears to be fundamentally different from the period preceding it. During the Cold War, the bipolar...
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