Reckoning with God
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....
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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...
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....
Mustafa Emir Küçük People have used green spaces for recreational purposes throughout history, yet the concept of the park as a designed green space for people’s recreation in the middle of the city developed...
Ayşe Nur Akdal Today, one can find it bizarre to come across a rural element in cities. However, historically, there was not a clear distinction between urban and rural. Agricultural and urban space existed...
Georgios C. Liakopoulos The first extant Ottoman taxation cadastre of the Morea TT10-1/14662, dated 1460-63, divides the recorded settlements into Greek and Albanian on the basis of different rates of taxation, which favoured the latter ethnic...
Graham Auman Pitts Capitalism had it seasons in late-Ottoman Mount Lebanon. Each spring, the families that tilled orchards of mulberries purchased the eggs they needed on credit. Mulberry leaves nourished the eggs, which hatched...
Benan Grams On June 30th, 1903 Sultan Abdulhamid II approved a project to bring potable water to Damascus from the Ein el-Fijeh spring.1 The project was presented to the central government by Nazim Pasha,...
Nükhet Varlık Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. It is known to have affected human societies for at least the last five thousand years. During its long history, it...
Neighbourliness is a concept which refers to the most contingent and yet least evitable phenomenon of all social relationships: neighbourly relations. As space of enforced closeness the neighbourhood can be considered a microcosm epitomising...
A seminar series by Ifpo, OCM (USJ) and the OIB Organizers : Michele Scala (OIB Visiting Doctoral Fellow, Amu-Iremam, Ifpo) Nizar Hariri, Senior Lecturer at the USJ, Faculty of Economic Sciences This seminar series aims...
Symposium in Beirut, 27-28 October 2017 Call for Papers: Abstracts due by 5 June 2017 The Orient-Institut Beirut and the Nicolas Ibrahim Sursock Museum are organizing a symposium on 27-28 October 2017 that aims...
Date: 14-15 November 2016 Venue: Orient-Institut Beirut Organizers: Orient-Institut Beirut/Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte Paris Nadia von MaltzahnMore Posts
International Workshop Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB) July 29, 2016 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Laila Shereen Sakr Assistant Professor of Film & Media Studies University of California, Santa Barbara The pivotal and unprecedented role that digital technology...
We invite paper proposals for participation in a panel on The Art Salon in the Middle East: Migration of Institutional Patronage and its Challenges that we are submitting to MESA for this year’s annual meeting...