The OIBlog from Beirut and Cairo
OIB_upclose, the OIBlog from Beirut and Cairo, features an exclusive publication of Prof. Dr. Angelika Neuwirth’s honorary lecture on the occasion of migrating her monumental research project Corpus Coranicum from the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der...
By Jens Hanssen 02.07.2024, published in German in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, URL: https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wissen/geist-soziales/besetzung-in-der-altstadt-haeuserkampf-um-das-kulturelle-gedaechtnis-jerusalems-19827287.html The displacement of Palestinians in East Jerusalem has been progressing for years. Now an Israeli court has ordered the eviction of...
Mohammad Ali Atassi Article orginally published in al-Quds al-‘Arabi on 28 February, 2024 Translated by Jens Hanssen on 23 April 2024 This is the story of two men, two cities and two countries brought...
بقلم يونس هانسن؛ راجَعَهُ لُغويًّا سومر المير محمود و براق زكاريا آب ٢٠٢٣، برلين «الجواب المختصر هو أنّ التضامن لا يعلُو على النقد… الولاء لمجموعة في صراعها من أجل البقاء لا يجوز أن يجُرَّ...
في لايبزغ… كان كل شعب يعرض كفاحه ليتعلّم الآخرون [In Leipzig…People screen their struggles so others may learn] al-Akhbar, 15 December 1973, 32-33, Orient-Institut Beirut Library Anaïs Farine From Film Festivals...
Sana Abu Antoun Sana Bou Antoun joined the OIB in 2022 for a duration of 12 months as an affiliated PhD student. She is a PhD Student in the Department of Arabic Studies at...
Sarah Sabban In the post 9/11 context, permanent and temporary exhibitions of “Islamic art” aimed at countering the effects of “terrorist Islam” by improving the image of “Islam” and humanizing Muslims in the eyes...
Sophia Schröder Consociational settlements are often negotiated after violent conflict and various communities have to be accommodated. Cooperation between political elites is an essential characteristic in consociational theory – necessary to both the establishment...
Javier Guirado Alonso On February 22nd, 1972, Sheikh Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani appeared on TV promising a new era of prosperity for Qatar, linking “the glorious present with an ancient past”.[1] Sheikh Khalifa’s...
Fatima Al-Bazzal My project tackles an under-represented and highly dispersed manuscript archive. According to a popular narrative distributed among the people of Jabal Amil Region, today’s Southern Lebanon, Ahmad Pasha al-Jazzar, the Ottoman governor...
Islamic Ethical Discourse”. Various typologies from the pre-modern texts of ethics including ethnic, religious, societal, gendered and historical typologies have been extensively discussed in five panels for three days in hybrid form. Eleven out of fifteen speakers were physically present in Beirut. All panels have been livestreamed to achieve a wide audience worldwide. The workshop took place from 10-12 March 2022 and has been organized by Fatih Ermiş (OIB), Bilal Orfali (AUB) and Enrico Boccaccini (OIB). The spectrum of the speakers ranged from Canada and USA to Germany, UK, the Netherlands, Turkey and Lebanon.
Rosemary Maxton In around 1700 CE, in the town of Mardin (current-day southeast Turkey), a priest decided to abandon his Syriac Orthodox faith and embrace Catholicism.[1] Though little else can be gathered about this...
Joud Alkorani By some recollections, the Arab Spring was characterized by God’s presence. “God is with us,” chanted some as they protested in the streets. “God is great,” proclaimed others as blood was shed....
Rosy Beyhom A public research seminar took place on the 15th of June 2022 in the main hall of Orient Institute Beirut and focused on music and politics. Rosy Beyhom, a visiting post-doctoral fellow...
Krieg und auch Bürgerkrieg sind meist mit Gewalt aussoziiert. Gewalt scheint das Merkmal von Kriegshandlungen zu sein. Doch auch in Zeiten des Krieges gibt es Handeln, das nicht von Gewalt durchdrungen ist, auch wenn...
Pierre France The international workshop “Alles ist Data? Tout est Data!” took place as an in-person conference with online invitation-only attendance, the first of its kind since the COVID-19 era started at the Institut....
