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Das Blog begleitet die wissenschaftlichen Aktivitäten des Orient-Instituts Beirut. Das Institut, gegründet 1961 durch die Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft, betreibt und fördert Forschung zur...
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The Inverted Worlds
OIB Congress Trailer from maxweberstiftung on Vimeo. The Inverted Worlds – Congress on Cultural Motion in the Arab Region was held in October 2012 by the Orient-Institut Beirut and focussed on...
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Lecture by OI Beirut director Stefan Leder on Max Weber and the Arab World...
Max Weber in Arabic. At the Max Weber Conference, which was held by the Max Weber Foundation, Stefan Leder, the director of the Orient-Institut Beirut, lectured on Max Weber and the Arab World. The...
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Workers’ organisations between fragmentation and protest: A workshop
Unions have continued to play an important role before and during the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia since 2011. Lebanon has also witnessed a variety of strikes and sit-ins in 2012. On the one hand,...
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Video | Keynote Address by Elias Khoury at the “Inverted Worlds” Congress
The Inverted Worlds – Congress on Cultural Motion in the Arab Region was held in October 2012 by the Orient Institut Beirut and focussed on exploring arenas and manifestations of cultural change...
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Inverted Worlds – Congress on Cultural Motion in the Arab Region
„Wir befinden uns inmitten eines Wandels, der sehr kompliziert ist, und der Leute wie mich verpflichtet, bescheiden zu sein. Was heute in der arabischen Welt passiert, hat Intellektuelle wie mich, die...
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The “Arab Spring”: A challenge to the Christian minorities of the Middle East
In the March 2013 edition of the “Armenian-German Correspondence” (Armenisch-Deutsche Korrespondenz, ADK) OIB research associate Thomas Scheffler published a brief analysis of the current uprisings in...
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Video |“Do You Like What is Happening?! The Country is Falling Down!”
“Do you like what is happening?! The country is falling down!” this is the most famous sentence you may hear while taking a taxi ride through streets of Cairo. Does this sentence really reflect a new...
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Inverted Worlds: Cultural Motion in the Arab Region, Eds. Syrinx von Hees,...
Introduction By Syrinx von Hees, Nadia von Maltzahn, Ines Weinrich <1> The wave of popular uprisings taking place in several countries in the Arab region since early 2011 launched a...
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Obituary Christoph Schumann (1969-2013)
By Thomas Scheffler The OIB is saddened to learn of the sudden and untimely death of Dr. Christoph Schumann, Professor of Politics and Contemporary History of the Near East at...
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Divercities blog
The divercities blog was created by the Orient-Institut Beirut and the Goethe Institut Lebanon to accompany our jointly organised event divercities: contested space and urban identities in beirut,...
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Frank Walter Steinmeier zu Besuch am OIB
Außenminister Frank Walter Steinmeier und Stefan Leder, Direktor des Orient-Instituts Beirut Der deutsche Außenminister Frank-Walter Steinmeier und Mitglieder seiner Delegation sprachen am 30. Mai 2014...
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Obituary Sabah Kharrat Zouein (December 8, 1954 – June 5, 2014)
Sabah Kharrat Zouein, August 2013 at the CITL library in Arles The OIB is saddened to learn of the untimely death of Sabah Kharrat Zouein, an outstanding Lebanese poetess and literary critic who...
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REPORT: Language, Science and Aesthetics
Articulations of Subjectivity and Objectivity in the Modern Middle East, North Africa, South and Southeast Asia Report of the Summer Academy in Beirut, 11-19 September 2014 Organizers: Orient-Institut...
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Mafish Ta‘lim: Why Egypt Ranked Last on Education
By Hania Sobhy In its 2013-2014 Global Competitiveness Report, the World Economic Forum ranked Egypt as the worst country in the world in term of the quality of primary education. The measure is not...
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