Informality for Reconstruction: A Possible Partnership
Part of the TRAFO series “Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War” By M. Wesam Al Asali, Majida Malo, and Iyass Shahin Post-war reconstruction has always been proposed and studied as a set...
Part of the TRAFO series “Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War” By M. Wesam Al Asali, Majida Malo, and Iyass Shahin Post-war reconstruction has always been proposed and studied as a set...
Part of the TRAFO series “Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War” By Zoya Masoud Heritage experts around the globe are continuously highlighting the importance of safeguarding the architecture of Aleppo, as one...
Part of the TRAFO series “Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War” By Kevin Mazur Predatory capitalism and central authorities’ acts of misrule feature prominently in accounts of contestation, violence, and reconstruction in...
On November 20 and 21st 2018, the annual conference of the Forum Transregionale Studien and the Max Weber Stiftung – Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland took place in Berlin. The...
Arturo Monaco is a PhD holder in Civilizations, Cultures and Societies of Asia and Africa, Sapienza University of Rome (2016). His PhD dissertation explores the surrealist trend in modern Arabic...
Wendy Pearlman is the Koldyke Outstanding Teaching Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University, where she specializes in Middle East politics. Wendy earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University, an...
Mirjam Brusius holds an MA in Art History (Berlin 2007) and a doctorate in History and Philosophy of Science (Cambridge University 2011). She joined the German Historical Institute London as...
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...
Nadia von Maltzahn joined the Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB) in 2013, having previously organized the international conference Inverted Worlds: Congress on Cultural Motion in the Arab Region for the OIB in...