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The OIB team wishes everyone a calm and restful summer break

OIB's former director Prof. Birgit Schäbler has just edited "Beiruter Texte und Studien" No. 144

OIB’s former Roemer Fellow, Sara Binay, and research associate, Ahmed Abd-Elsalam, just published their OIB-research in the journal Religions

OIB director Jens Hanssen contributes to a special Max-Weber-Stiftung issue on the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Mounir Zahran, an affliated OIB-researcher, publishes an article in the German periodical Merkur about his moving return to Syria earlier this year

Journalist in Residence Yassin al-Hajj Saleh

In Loving Memory of Rabia Omeirat / في ذكرى رحيل ربيعة عميرات

Our research associate Zeina G. Halabi received a six-week Civitella Ranieri Writing Fellowship for 2025

Nothing Lasts Forever: Syria Through the Eyes of the Free ما في للأبد: سوريا بعيون الأحرار

Job Opportunities / Stellenangebote

A new article published by our research associate Christian Thuselt

OIB’s Research Associate Sarah El Bulbeisi had just published:

OIB fellow-at-Large Max Weiss, Professor of History and Comparative Literature at Princeton University, has just published the first few pages of Adania Shibli’s new novel in The Paris Review

The Grand Mufti of Egypt receives a delegation from the OIB to discuss ways of joint cooperation

New published essay by OIB doctoral fellow Jan Altaner

New monograph by OIB postdoctoral fellow Benjamin Raßbach

El Alamein: Between Egypt & Germany

Address of the OIB director concerning the current situation of the institute

New article by OIB Research Associate Sarah El Bulbeisi

"Oblivion Culture: Countering the German taboo on Palestinian trauma,” published in Cabinet Magazine

New Article by OIB doctoral fellow Jan Altaner

Latest publication of our institute

OIB director Jens Hanssen met with former prime minister Tammam Salam

Concerning Academic Freedom, 1784 and 2024

Lecture by Avi Shlaim on "Zionism and the Jews of Iraq: A Personal Perspective

Obituary of former OIB Research Associate Werner Ende in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

New Article by OIB doctoral fellow Jan Altaner: “Eskalation im Nahen Osten: Diplomatie ist gefragt"

New Lectures by OIB Director Jens Hanssen in North America

New interview with OIB Director Jens Hanssen at Divan – Das Arabische Kulturhaus

Exclusive publication of Angelika Neuwirth’s honorary lecture

Lecture by OIB research associate Sami Khatib: "After Unreason: Global Injustice and Legacy of Enlightenment: A philosophical contribution to Kantian ideas in the context of capitalism and colonialism”

New Article by OIB Research Associate Sarah El Bulbeisi

New Article by OIB doctoral fellow Jan Altaner: "Wie starb Hind Rajab?”, published in Jacobin

Postponed until further notice: Roundtable "Public Use of Reason and Academic Freedom: Kant’s Radical Legacy Reconsidered”

Symposium on "Immanuel Kant und die aktuelle Relevanz seiner Philosophie für die arabische Welt” in Berlin

New article by OIB director Jens Hanssen

Annual Report - Jahresbericht 2023

New Lecture Series “Kant and the Non-European: Critique, Justice and Freedom” starts on 5 September 2024

Oxana Timofeeva speaks on "Why are we moving in the opposite direction of perpetual peace?"

German ambassador to Lebanon visits the OIB

OIB research associate Zeina G. Halabi and Adania Shibli at Dar El-Nimer

OIB director met with Francesca Albanese

مفهوم التضامن في الخطاب الأكاديمي الألماني

New publications by research associate Zeina G. Halabi

تهافت التهافت في قصور الاستشراق

Sheikh Zayed Book Award

New article by OIB doctoral fellow Jan Altaner

UNRWA – Schuldig, auch ohne Beweise?

LATEST NEWS OF OUR RESEARCHERS

Josef-van-Ess-Memorial-Lecture

Gerald D. Feldman-Reisebeihilfen / Travel Grants

LATEST NEWS OF OUR RESEARCHERS

Happening at OIB

LATEST NEWS OF OUR RESEARCHERS

Exploring the Future of Libraries in the Middle East

Honoring the Memory & Legacy of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

Arab-German Academy of Sciences and Humanities seeks new members!

LAWHA NEWS

LATEST NEWS OF OUR RESEARCHERS

Alya Karame was granted the Barakat Publication Award in support of her book The Forgotten Qur’ans of the Medieval Eastern Islamic World: The Ghaznavid and Ghurid Dynasties which will be published by Edinburgh University Press in 2023.

LATEST NEWS OF OUR RESEARCHERS

Global Weimar - Global Nahda

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Newsletter #3 December 2022

LATEST EVENTS AT OIB

LAWHA (Lebanon's Art World at Home and Abroad: Trajectories of artists and artworks in/from Lebanon since 1943)

Newsletter #2, July 2022

Annual Report - Jahresbericht 2021

OIB Research Fellowships 2022/2023

This call for applications is now closed.

PHC Cèdre Fertile Liban (2023-2025)

Call for Papers

OIB after the blast

Relations in the Ideoscape: Middle Eastern Students in the Eastern Bloc (1950's to 1991)

Translating Politics into Art and Literature in the Arab World

LATEST NEWS OF OUR RESEARCHERS

Video on the conference held at NDU in cooperation with OIB on Malik-Heidegger (12th of June 2023)

New article by OIB research associate Sami Khatib

New review essay by OIB doctoral fellow Jan Altaner

Our research associate Alya Karame received the Cochrane Research Fellowship for 2025 at the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin

Digital populism in Iraq: the case of Muqtada al-Sadr

Our new catalogue of publications is out!

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Günther (Göttingen), a current member of the OIB’s academic Advisory Board, has been elected an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Our Research Associate Alya Karame wrote an essay for Invisible East

Our vice director had just published an article: Identität und Religion in “Handbuch Arabische Halbinsel”