THE JOURNAL MAWĀQIF: AN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF POST-1967 BEIRUT (IN THREE ACTS) by Yvonne Albers Moderation: Vivienne Schommer ******************* About this book: This book is a story of a generation of Arab intellectuals in the late 20th century told through the biography of the famous Beiruti journal Mawāqif (1968–1994), which was founded and edited by the Syrian poet Adunis, and co-edited by a changing group of acclaimed Arab writers, thinkers and artists, including Khalida Said, Sadiq Jalal al-Azm, Elias Khoury, and Edward Said, to name but a few. At the heart of its narrative is the city of Beirut, a trans-Arab intelligentsia hotspot during the Long 1960s, then a war-torn capital in the late 1970s and 1980s, and ultimately a distant home imagined by the exiled Arab community in the early 1990s. Mawāqif ’s biography mirrors that of a post-1967 Arab intellectual generation and its once-revolutionary project, and shows the deep interconnectedness of the modern intellectual (al-muthaqqaf) as social figure and of journal-making as this figure’s constitutive practice. Yvonne Albers ‘ current research focuses on time and temporality in/of the modern Arab periodical, and on global circulations of theory since the early 20th century. Her recent book Beirut und die Zeitschrift Mawāqif has been published last year (Brill 2023). Together with Anne-Marie McManus and Barbara Winckler she is co-editing a volume on The Journal as Form: An Introduction to Arab Periodical Studies (De Gruyter 2025).
Location: Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies
Hittorfstr. 18
14195 Berlin
Contemporary Islamic Political Thought in Egypt by Ebtisam Aly Hussein Moderation: Cilja Harders ******************* About this book: Ebtisam Aly Hussein takes a hermeneutic approach toward reading the writings of Islamic intellectuals Jamal al-Banna and Tariq al-Bishri across several decades in order to explore contemporary Islamic political thought under authoritarianism. How is authority over the public sphere in religious and political terms established? How do al-Banna and al-Bishri discuss the state in Islam, Shari'a application, political violence, and identity politics? And how did their writings interact with autocratic practices under Nasir, Sadat and Mubarak? Ebtisam Hussein is an European Neighborhood Council (ENC) academic council member and Associate Professor of Political Science at Cairo University (on leave). She served as Associate Professor of Middle Eastern studies (Feb 2019-Jan 2022) at Sun Yat-sen University (China) and earned her PhD in 2014 from the Free University of Berlin at the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies. Organised by Cilja Harders at OSI/ FU Berlin, in cooperation with Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies. Please register with polvoro@zedat.fu-berlin.de in order to receive the link to the event.
Semester kick-off - informal get-together in the Grad School Come along - bring a little something for the small buffet! *** for all member of the BGSMCS
Mohammad Magout Otherness in the Ottoman Syrian Press: Representations of Social Deviance and Religious Heterodoxy Moderation: Florian Zemmin for all cohorts
Dr. Jonas Tinius (Saarland University) "Making Differences in Berlin: Transforming Museums and Heritage in the 21st Century" Moderation: Professor Claudia Liebelt and Professor Kai Kresse For All Cohorts
Student Organised Summer Term +++ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm +++ Panelists: Dr. Nahed Sammour Dr. Hana Tzuberi Moderation: Prof. Gudrun Krämer +++ for all cohorts +++
Location: @BGSMCS, Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin
or via ONLINE link: https://shorturl.at/dqLM9.
or email: abougham90@zedat.fu-berlin.de.
POSTPONED! A new date will be announced in due course. Speaker: Ebtisam Aly Hussain Moderation: Professor Cilja Harders For All Cohorts ++++ hybrid ++++ Webex Link: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin/j.php?MTID=m08e799389d8d8de7c87ef5611a6fec4f Meeting Code: 2785 339 4453 * Password: 5U958DndJZ3
Student Organised Summer Term Speaker: Prof. Asef Bayat Moderation: Dr. Samuli Schielke PhD Fellow Presentations: Mariam Aboughazi Soufiane Chinig Doaa Kaddah Felix Wessel +++ for all cohorts +++
Location: @Location: BGSMCS, Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin (Library)
or via ONLINE link: https://shorturl.at/dqLM9.
or email: abougham90@zedat.fu-berlin.de.
Student Organised Summer Term +++ online only +++ Panelists: Dr. Rosa Castillo Dr. Hossam el-Hamalawy Moderation: Dr. Samuli Schielke +++ for all cohorts +++
Location: @Location: online only!
Online link: https://shorturl.at/dqLM9.
or
Email: abougham90@zedat.fu-berlin.de.
Regina Tunke The introduction will be held on 9/10/2023, 1:30 pm. There will be two seminars (beginner/advanced) offered at BGSMCS for the winter semester 2023/24 and summer semester 2024.
