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Imagining Futures - Dealing with Disparity
The Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM) launches its main phase and welcomes its new Fellows in …
Humanities and Social Sciences in Times of Crises: Back to Provincialism?
Conference of the Forum Transregionale Studien in cooperation with the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and …
Cats in the Street Art of LBWS CAT UKRAINE: Constructing Cultural Memory in Wartime
By Yuliya Stodolinska on the surge of artistic practices in Ukraine as a response to Russia’s invasion
Ex-Syrian Prisoners Reunite With Music as Their Balm
Journalist Hannah El-Hitami on a SYRASP Workshop
Philological Encounters, Volume 8, Issue 1
A new issue of the journal »Philological Encounters« has just been published.
‘Woman, Life, Freedom’: Decoding the Political Poetics of a Woman-led Revolutionary Movement
Fatemeh Shams investigates the origins and the evolution of revolutionary slogans. Read at our TRAFO Blog →
The Rise of Ukraine’s Sun by Kateryna Zarembo
Dr Kateryna Zarembo presents her new book “The Rise of Ukraine’s Sun” (Схід українського сонця) at the Forum. In …
Gender Studies in Afghanistan or jender bazi: The Neoliberal University, Knowledge Production and Labour under Military Occupation
By Paniz Musawi Natanzi in our TRAFO Blog series »Gender, Sexuality and Knowledge in Neoliberal and Authoritarian …
Sindibād in Trap: A Youthful Revolutionary of Hope and Resilience
Sanabel Abdelrahman about the trope of “Sindibād” in contemporary Arabic trap music on our TRAFO Blog
Reclaiming Spaces from the Streets to the Gutter: Sketching Feminisms in Contemporary Arab Graphic Narratives
By Rasha Chatta on our TRAFO Blog
From a Pilfered Nail to a Stolen Tank: The Role of a Media Event in the Consolidation of the Ukrainian Political Nation
By Mykola Homanyuk and Janush Panchenko in our TRAFO Blog series »War, Migration and Memory«
Kahramanmaraş Earthquake: How the Syrian Regime is Instrumentalising the Natural Catastrophe
Comment by Elise Daniaud on Syrian politics after the massive earthquake
After Wisdom. Sapiential Traditions and Ancient Scholarship in Comparative Perspective
The new publication of »Philological Encounters Monographs,« edited by Glenn W. Most and Michael Puett, has recently …
History Teacher of the People: Volodymyr Zelensky, Vasyl Holoborodko and his Displaced Colleagues
By Viktoria Sereda (Prisma Ukraïna: War, Migration and Memory) in our TRAFO Blog series #DossierUkraine
Prisma Ukraïna Teatime Conversations
A closed series of discussions with guest speakers and Prisma Ukraïna: War, Migration and Memory starts February 2023
Merging in Space: The Ongoing War and Previous Wars in Ukraine
By Denys Shatalov in our TRAFO Blog series »War, Migration and Memory«
Out now: Dossier 2-3, Forum Transregionale Studien, in English and Arabic
“The Humanities in the 21st Century: Perspectives from the Arab World and Germany / الإنسانيات في القرن الحادي والعشرين …
War, Migration and Memory: An Introduction
Prisma Ukraïna Senior Fellow Viktoriya Sereda launches “War, Migration and Memory” TRAFO Blog Series.
Silence and Radical Rethinking in Syrian Theatre of the Long 1980s
By Friederike Pannewick in our TRAFO Blog series »The Literary 1980s in the Middle East and the Maghreb«
New recording out: »“Have we not yet been defeated?”—On Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s Writings from Egypt’s Revolution and Prison«
Alia Mossallam (EUME Fellow 2017-2023) in conversation with Yassin al-Haj Saleh (Writer / 2019 EUME Fellow) at the EUME …
