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…
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 together…
Diana Jeha has joined the LAWHA team as a research assistant in October 2023. Diana is a Lebanese visual artist and art historian, holding a PhD in History of Art from the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik/Lebanon and a masters degree...
Ashraf Osman is participating in the 5th Postgraduate International Conference “A Driving Force: On the Rhetoric of Images and Power” held at Cà Foscari University of Venice from 4 to 6 October 2023. Virtual participation is possible on thi…
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…
A public talk by Ashraf Osman, Pierre France and Nadia von Maltzahn in collaboration with the Sursock Museum The talk Chronologies and the Question of Periodization departs from the exhibition Beyond Ruptures, a Tentative Chronology which takes the for…
LAWHA International Conference Beirut/Lebanon, 3-4 June 2024 (Part I) Berlin/Germany, 25 June 2024 (Part II) What makes a place …
Nadia von Maltzahn. “Dear Tutu: a letter by Palestinian artist Vladimir Tamarion exile, friendship and globalisation”. static: thoughts and research from global dis:connect, Vol. 2, No. 1, May 2023ISSN: 2751-1626. In this article in the spe…
Thursday, 25 May 2023, 10am-12noon Orient-Institut Beirut, Library (Directions) LAWHA/OIB in collaboration with the American University of Beirut (AUB) and the Global (De)Centre is happy to invite you to join us for a public panel discussion on “Curati…
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…
In the workshop “Contested (in)visibilities and memorial cultures: Towards a critical reading of cultural heritage and conflict” at the Orient-Institut Beirut, on 15 March 2023, we will explore memorial cultures and consider critical readings of herita…
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…
In der zwölften Episode des „Wissen entgrenzen“-Podcasts der Max Weber Stiftung gibt Nadia von Maltzahn vom Orient-Institut in Beirut einen Einblick in ihr Forschungsprojekt „Lebanon’s Art World at Home and Abroad: Trajectories of Artists and Artworks …
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