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The Sound of Friendship:
Warm Wavelengths in a Cold, Cold War?
In her documentary film ‘The Sound
of Friendship’, Anandita Bajpai (ZMO) traces the trajectory of Radio
Berlin International (RBI), a GDR based international radio broadcaster,
from the perspective of its journalists and listeners, based in present
day Germany and India. The film is to be released in December 2020. View
the trailer now on our
YouTube channel!
The film is a story of the radio
station’s Hindi Programme aired from 1967-1990. It takes viewers from
locales in Berlin, where the station was located, to Madhepura,
Bihar in India where a Listeners’ Club called the Lenin Club was active.
How were transnational ties of friendship performed among actors from
India and the GDR through the sonic medium of short waves during the Cold
War? And how are those ties remembered today, 30 years after the shutdown
of the station?
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19 October
2020, 5 pm, virtual presentation
German, Jew, Muslim, Gay. The Life
and Times of Hugo Marcus
Book presentation by Marc David
Baer (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Hugo Marcus (1880–1966) was a man
of many names and many identities. In 'German, Jew, Muslim, Gay', Marc
David Baer uses Marcus’s life and work to shed new light on a striking
range of subjects, including German Jewish history and anti-Semitism,
Islam in Europe, Muslim-Jewish relations, and the history of the gay
rights struggle.
Marc David Baer is professor of international history at the London
School of Economics and Political Science.
This event will be primarily a Q&A session with the author. A longer
book talk can be viewed prior to the event on ZMO's YouTube channel here.
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26 October
2020, 5 pm, virtual presentation
Migrant Dreams. Egyptian Workers
in the Gulf States
Book presentation by Samuli
Schielke (ZMO)
What kind of dreams for a good or
better life drives labor migrants? What does
being a migrant worker do to one’s hopes and ambitions? How does the
experience of migration to the Gulf, with its attendant economic and
legal precarities, shape migrants’ particular dreams of a better life?
Based on ten years of ethnographic fieldwork and conversations with
Egyptian men from mostly low-income rural backgrounds who migrated as
workers to the Gulf, returned home, and migrated again over a period of
about a decade, Samuli Schiielke explores and
engages with these questions and more, as the men reflect on their
strivings and the dreams they hope to fulfill...
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29 October
2020, 5 pm, virtual presentation
Cinema, Sacred History and the
State
Lecture by Nacim
Pak-Shiraz (University of Edinburgh) as part of the ZMO Colloquium "Understanding Populism: State, Academia,
and Civil Society"
The representation of religious
figures in Islam has become particularly controversial in recent years.
The creation of religious films is, therefore, a highly sensitive
undertaking, evident in the very small number of such films produced by
Muslim countries. This paper will examine Muhammad: The Messenger of God
(2015) directed by Majid Majidi, one of Iran’s internationally acclaimed
filmmakers. Muhammad is a significant development not only in the history
of representations of the Prophet but also in the genre of religious
epics. Drawing from extensive fieldwork in Iran, this paper will study the
film’s claims of being an authentic narrative of the Prophet...
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Orient Bulletin
Nr. 38, September 2020
Read now our latest Orient
Bulletin with a focus on the Corona pandemic! The Bulletin also informs
about developments in the library, our new staff, the ZMO-Colloquium and
much more.
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„Fritz-Steppat-Prize“ for promoting young researchers
Congratulations to the awardees of
the Fritz-Steppat-Prize 2020!
Rahina Muazu (ZMO) has been awarded for her dissertation "Qurʾan Recitation and the Nudity of the Female Voice
in Nigeria" and Shaul Marmari (Dubnow
Institute) for his MA thesis "Red Sea Horizons. Palestine and the
Jewish-Yemeni Diaspora, 1881–1948".
The prize is awarded every two
years by the Gesellschaft zur Förderung des ZMO e.V. for an outstanding scientific
text by a young researcher.
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