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No. 34, July 2018
Orient Bulletin: Africa's Futures
History, Society and Culture in Asia, the Middle East and Africa
ZMO Orient Bulletin No. 34 is now online. Katrin Bromber, head of the research area Progress: Ideas, Agents, Symbols starts with some reflections on the current obsession with Africa´s futures. Judith Scheele, Alexander von Humboldt fellow at ZMO, introduces her research topic on region formation in the Sahara. In an extended activities section there are several reports on conferences and workshops held at ZMO during the last months as well as a text on an Algerian film festival "The Past in the Present - New Films from Algeria" in May 2018. Besides news on people, projects and publications ZMO library informs about the archiving of a research collection on Africa and particularly Togo. Take a read!
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ZMO Visiting Research Fellowships 2019
Call for Applications, Deadline: 17 August 2018
Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in Berlin, Germany, is inviting applications for Visiting Research Fellowships for the calendar year of 2019. The centre seeks to attract outstanding postdoctoral scholars who are engaged in projects relevant to ZMO’s research profile.
The call is open to senior researchers and recent postdocs in the humanities and the social sciences. We particularly encourage applications by candidates from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Scholars currently based in Germany are not eligible to apply.
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Prize for Good Teaching for ZMO fellow Jeanine Dağyeli
Jeanine Dağyeli and her colleague Manja Stephan Emmrich of the Department of Asian and African Studies of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin were awarded the "Fakultätspreis für gute Lehre der Kultur-, Sozial und Bildungswissenchaftlichen Fakultät" for their class on Materialität und Wissen: Anthropologische Zugänge zur moralischen und religiösen Welt der Dinge.
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Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient
Annual Report on the research year 2017
Published by Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, July 2018.
Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient is proud to announce the publication of the
Annual Report 2017. The volume contains two research essays by Nazan
Maksudyan and Joseph-Désiré Som I, as well as reports on the development in
ZMO's research fields, knowledge transfer and related matters.
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Bachir Kanouté & Joseph-Désiré Som I
Participatory Budgeting in Africa: A Kaleidoscope tool for good governance and local democracy
In Hope for Democracy, 30 Years of Participatory Budgeting Worldwide, ed. by Nelson Dias, Epopeia Records, 2018, pp. 77-88. |
Nora Lafi
Organizing Coexistence in Early Ottoman Aleppo: an Interpretation of the 1518, 1526 and 1536 Tahrîr Defteris and the 1536 Qanunname
In Human Mobility and Multiethnic Coexistence in Middle Eastern Urban Societies 2, ed. by Hidemitsu Kuroki, ILCAA Tokyo, 2018, p. 103-120. | |
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Who's talking? - ZMO in the Media | |
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Samuli Schielke
Es geht nicht um Hass
ZMO fellow Samuli Schielke published a critical reply to Susanne Schröter's statements on sexual harassment and violence among young men from the Middle East. Zenith, 18 July 2018 |
With Inana Othman
Wie hälst du es mit Assad?
ZMO fellow Inana Othman provided expert knowledge on political discourse among Syrian refugees in Germany in an article by Souad Abbad. DIE ZEIT, 21 July 2018. | |
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With Samuli Schielke
Egypt's milennials turn to Sufism
Samuli Schielke talked to Yasmin El-Beih about the current Sufi revival among young Egyptians. Al-Monitor, 11 July 2018. |
With Patrick Schukalla
Das Märchen vom Ende der Atomkraft
In her radio podcast on nuclear phase-out Julia Tieke relies on ZMO fellow Patrick Schukalla's doctoral project for expertise. Deutschlandfunk Kultur, 5 July 2018. | |
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