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Research Project: The Financialisation of Home in the Middle East // A study of Lebanon’s mortgage markets: Tracing regulatory changes

This project by OIB postdoctoral fellow Marieke Krijnen focuses on the increasing interconnections between real estate and finance in Lebanon. Real estate has always been dependent on the financial sector for loans, but the financial sector itself has become increasingly … Continue reading

Video: Wohin treibt der Nahe Osten?/Where is the Middle East Heading? (3)

Panel II: Minderheiten, Verfolgung und politische Interaktion/Minorities, persecution and political interaction Chair: Dr. Rolf Hosfeld, Potsdam/Dr. Thomas Scheffler, Beirut   Die folgenden Vorträge waren Teil der Konferenz “Wohin treibt der Nahe Osten? Ethno-religiöse Minderheiten im Nahen Osten zwischen Verfolgung und … Continue reading

REPORT: Language, Science and Aesthetics

Articulations of Subjectivity and Objectivity in the Modern Middle East, North Africa, South and Southeast Asia Report of the Summer Academy in Beirut, 11-19 September 2014 Organizers: Orient-Institut Beirut/Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin Between 11-19 September 2014, the Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB) and the Berlin-based research program Forum Transregionale Studien organized an international Summer Academy in Beirut entitled “Language, Science and Aesthetics – Articulations of Subjectivity and Objectivity in the Modern Middle East, North Africa, South and Southeast Asia”. The Summer Academy explored debates about modernity, […]

Khayri Hammad and Hannah Arendt in Cairo: Translating Liberal Thought in Revolutionary Times – a Lecture by Professor Jens Hanssen

Studies on Egypt and the Middle East in Germany How do ideas travel through space and history? Which thoughts and concepts have been exchanged and transferred between Europe and Arab countries? Are these concepts received in different ways regarding the cultural and political context? Which role does translation and the translator play in transferring ideas? Professor Jens Hanssen from the University of Toronto discussed these questions in his lecture on “Khayri Hammad and Hannah Arendt in Cairo: Translating Liberal Thought in Revolutionary Times”, which […]

CfP BRISMES Panel: “Pushing the Status Quo: Liberation in art and cultural practices in the modern Middle East”

We invite paper proposals for participation in a panel on “Pushing the Status Quo: Liberation in art and cultural practices in the modern Middle East” that we are submitting to BRISMES for its forthcoming conference in London, 24-26 June 2015 (www.brismes2015.org). Cultural production often challenges existing norms and practices, pushing the boundaries of the status quo. This panel explores the relationship of artists and cultural players to authority in the Middle East in the 20th and 21st centuries. It deals with processes of transformation of […]

FOOD FABRICATION: Culinary practices and food politics in the Arab world

The Orient-Institut Beirut and the Goethe-Institut Lebanon take a closer look at culinary practices and food politics in the Arab world Beirut, 14-17 January 2015 Taking a comprehensive look at food heritage, politics and practices in Lebanon and the Arab World, the Orient-Institut Beirut and the Goethe-Institut Lebanon are pleased to announce their forthcoming forum Food Fabrication, to take place in Beirut from 14 to 17 January 2015. Food is a basic need, yet a subject of contestation, especially in this region where food […]

Conference Livestream: Where is the Middle East heading? Abschlussdiskussion/Concluding panel discussion

Chair: Prof. Dr. Julius H. Schoeps, Potsdam Minderheiten im Nahen Osten und die westliche Welt Prof. Dr. SHLOMO AVINERI, Jerusalem Prof. Dr. MICHAEL STÜRMER, Die Welt Dr. SYLKE TEMPEL, Internationale Politik Demokratische Aufbrüche, die im Nahen Osten vor vier Jahren als „Arabischer Frühling“ begannen, haben eine tragische Wendung genommen. Autokratische Regime wurden zwar gestürzt oder in ihre Schranken gewiesen, doch im entstandenen Machtvakuum streiten ethnozentrierte und religiös-radikalisierte Gruppen militant und undemokratisch um Partikularinteressen. Einige Staaten erleben dabei rasante Zerfallsprozesse, andere offenen Bürgerkrieg, und wieder […]

Conference Livestream: Where is the Middle East heading? Panel III

Panel III: Minderheiten, Konflikte und neue Einflüsse/Minorities, conflicts and new impacts Chair: Dr. Thomas Scheffler, Beirut Der Nahe Osten als aktueller Konfliktherd Dr. MICHAEL LÜDERS, Berlin Die Kopten und der “Arabische Frühling” in Ägypten Dr. SEBASTIAN ELSÄSSER, Kiel Segmentation of nations and fragmentation of segments, based on the Iraqi experience in nation-building and re-building Dr. FALEH ABDUL-JABBAR, Beirut Interreligous dialogue in the Middle East : a failed experiment? Prof. Dr. KAMEL S. ABU JABER, Amman Demokratische Aufbrüche, die im Nahen Osten vor vier Jahren als „Arabischer […]

Conference Livestream: Where is the Middle East heading? Panel II (2)

Panel II: Minderheiten, Verfolgung und politische Interaktion/Minorities, persecution and political interaction Chair: Dr. Rolf Hosfeld, Potsdam/Dr. Thomas Scheffler, Beirut Religious Minorities in the Middle East Dr. HAMDAM NADAFI, Brüssel Die Situation der Kurden im Nahen Osten Dr. GÜNTER SEUFERT, Berlin Der Syrien-Konflikt und seine Auswirkungen auf die Minderheiten Dr. FRIEDERIKE STOLLEIS, Beirut Demokratische Aufbrüche, die im Nahen Osten vor vier Jahren als „Arabischer Frühling“ begannen, haben eine tragische Wendung genommen. Autokratische Regime wurden zwar gestürzt oder in ihre Schranken gewiesen, doch im entstandenen Machtvakuum […]

Conference Livestream: Where is the Middle East heading? Panel II (1)

Minderheiten, Verfolgung und politische Interaktion/Minorities, persecution and political interaction Chair: Dr. Rolf Hosfeld, Potsdam/Dr. Thomas Scheffler, Beirut Christliche Minderheiten im Nahen Osten: Ein Störfaktor in der westlichen Geopolitik? Dr. THOMAS SCHEFFLER, Beirut Living together, but separately? Federalization projects in Lebanon since 1975 Dr. ANDRÉ SLEIMAN, Beirut Demokratische Aufbrüche, die im Nahen Osten vor vier Jahren als „Arabischer Frühling“ begannen, haben eine tragische Wendung genommen. Autokratische Regime wurden zwar gestürzt oder in ihre Schranken gewiesen, doch im entstandenen Machtvakuum streiten ethnozentrierte und religiös-radikalisierte Gruppen militant […]

Conference Livestream: Where is the Middle East heading? Panel I

Panel I: Frühes 20. Jahrhundert, Erster Weltkrieg und Neugliederung des Nahen Ostens/Early 20th century, World War 1 and new order in the Middle East Chair: Dr. Rolf Hosfeld, Potsdam Der Zerfall des Osmanischen Reiches und seine Nachwirkungen: Talât Pasha Prof. Dr. HANS-LUKAS KIESER, Zürich Islamisches Ordnungswissen und die Idee der Nation: Konkurrenzen, Aporien und die Erfindung der Minderheiten Prof. Dr. MIHRAN DABAG, Bochum Minorities and mandates: The making of communal identities in the interwar period Prof. Dr. BIRGIT SCHÄBLER, Erfurt Demokratische Aufbrüche, die im […]

Conference Livestream: Where is the Middle East heading? – Welcome and Keynote Speech

Begrüßung/Welcome by Prof. Dr. Julius H. Schoeps, MMZ Potsdam Dr. Rolf Hosfeld, Lepsiushaus Potsdam Dr. Thomas Scheffler, Orient-Institut Beirut Dr. Elisabeth Botsch, Europäische Akademie Berlin Prof. Dr. Shlomo Avineri, Jerusalem Nationalism, nation-states, minority rights, and historical identities in the post-Ottoman space Since the beginning of the “Arab Spring” in December 2010, complex and dramatic transformations have taken place in the Middle East. Up to now, it remains difficult to assess their impact on the people, societies and governments in the region.  Previously stable forms of […]

Conference Livestream: Where is the Middle East heading? Panel IV

Panel IV: Bedrohte Kulturen und die Herausforderung der Vergangenheit/Endangered cultures and the challenges of the past Chair: Dr. Olaf Glöckner, Potsdam Aleppo as a prism of minorities, cultures and destruction in the Middle East Dr. UǦUR ÜMIT ÜNGÖR, Utrecht/Amsterdam Vergangenheitsbewältigung als Herausforderung in der Türkei Dr. ULRIKE DUFNER, Istanbul Die Situation der Minderheiten im Iran Dr. WAHIED WAHDAT-HAGH, Berlin Die Situation der Drusen im Nahen Osten TOBIAS LANG M.A., Wien Demokratische Aufbrüche, die im Nahen Osten vor vier Jahren als „Arabischer Frühling“ begannen, haben eine tragische […]

Where is the Middle East heading? Ethno-religious minorities between persecution and self-determination

International conference in Berlin, 30 November – 2 December 2014: The Orient-Institut Beirut – in cooperation with Lepsiushaus Potsdam, the Moses Mendelssohn Centre at Potsdam University and the European Academy Berlin – is organizing an international conference on the situation of Middle Eastern minorities after the “Arab Spring” entitled “Where is the Middle East heading? Ethno-religious minorities between persecution and self-determination” (Wohin treibt der Nahe Osten? Ethno-religiöse Minderheiten im Nahen Osten zwischen Verfolgung und Selbstbehauptung). Since the beginning of the “Arab Spring” in December 2010, […]

Summer Academy Lectures

You are cordially invited to attend our public lectures of the Summer Academy “Language, Science and Aesthetics”. Lecture I  11 Sept, 5 – 6.30 pm, AUB, Building 37  Ray Brassier (American University of Beirut) Dialectics between Suspicion and Trust Lecture II  12 Sept, 5 – 6.30 pm, Orient-Institut Beirut Hans Harder (University of Heidelberg) Reading Paratexts: The significance of textual frames Lecture III  13 Sept, 11.30 am – 1.00 pm, Orient-Institut Beirut Nader el-Bizri (American University of Beirut) Ontological-Epistemological Renewals within the Dialectics of […]

Summer Academy: Our Participants

We are pleased to welcome our participants for our Summer Academy “Language, Science and Aesthetics – Articulations of Subjectivity and Objectivity in the Modern Middle East, North Africa, South and Southeast Asia“, which will take place 11-19 September 2014 in Beirut. All participants (in alphabetical order): Hussein Abdulsater / Assistant Professor, Civilization Sequence Program, American University of Beirut Thematic Discussion: Renewing Falsafa: Epistemic possibilities and methodological obstacles Hannah Bader / Permanent Senior Research Fellow Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut/Academic Program Director Art Histories and Aesthetic […]

“Language, Science and Aesthetics”

The International Summer Academy is organized by  the Orient-Institut Beirut and the Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien. It is chaired by a group of scholars that include Monique Bellan (Orient-Institut Beirut), Nadia Bou Ali (American University of Beirut), Dahlia Gubara (Orient-Institut Beirut), Hans Harder (Heidelberg University), Bodhisattva Kar (University of Cape Town), Stefan Leder (Orient-Institut Beirut) and Dhruv Raina (Jawaharlal Nehru University). Entitled Language, Science and Aesthetics – Articulations of Subjectivity and Objectivity in the Modern Middle East, North Africa, South and Southeast Asia, this […]