The OIBlog from Beirut and Cairo
This brief lecture was delivery by Professor Hanssen to inaugurate the one-day DAAD-sponsored conference on “National, regional, and EU funding programmes to strengthen Syrian academic capacities and resilience” at the EU in Brussels on...
Auf der Grundlage umfangreicher Analysen seziert Fabian Goldmanns neues Buch “Staatsräsonfunk. Deutsche Medien und der Genozid in Gaza” die deutsche Berichterstattung zu Gaza und attestiert ihr ein umfassendes Versagen.Von Jan Altaner Ursprünglich veröffentlicht in...
17. April 2026 Jens Hanssen[*] Seit Mitternacht des 16. April 2026 herrscht in Beirut eine offizielle Waffenruhe zwischen Israel und der Hizbollah. Zehn Tage lang – so steht es in der 6-Punkte Vereinbarung...
The lasting impact of Protestant missionary dreams on Middle East policy in the West Julia Hauser[*] Mike Huckabee, the United States Ambassador to Israel, recently made headlines with comments in an interview with right-wing...
A text by Rani Abi Haidar The following text on the humanitarian situation in Beirut following renewed massive Israeli air strikes across Lebanon was written by OIB intern Rani Abi-Haidar, a political scientist at...
Abdel Raouf Sinno /Libanon [1] Historiker und Forscher Bewaffnete Konflikte haben stets schwerwiegende menschliche Tragödien hervorgebracht, die sich dauerhaft im kollektiven Gedächtnis verankern. Die gesellschaftliche Verarbeitung dieser Tragödien dauert Jahrzehnte. Zu diesen historischen Katastrophen...
OIB_upclose, the OIBlog from Beirut and Cairo, features an exclusive publication of Prof. Dr. Angelika Neuwirth’s honorary lecture on the occasion of migrating her monumental research project Corpus Coranicum from the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der...
By Jens Hanssen 02.07.2024, published in German in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, URL: https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wissen/geist-soziales/besetzung-in-der-altstadt-haeuserkampf-um-das-kulturelle-gedaechtnis-jerusalems-19827287.html The displacement of Palestinians in East Jerusalem has been progressing for years. Now an Israeli court has ordered the eviction of...
Mohammad Ali Atassi Article orginally published in al-Quds al-‘Arabi on 28 February, 2024 Translated by Jens Hanssen on 23 April 2024 This is the story of two men, two cities and two countries brought...
بقلم يونس هانسن؛ راجَعَهُ لُغويًّا سومر المير محمود و براق زكاريا آب ٢٠٢٣، برلين «الجواب المختصر هو أنّ التضامن لا يعلُو على النقد… الولاء لمجموعة في صراعها من أجل البقاء لا يجوز أن يجُرَّ...
في لايبزغ… كان كل شعب يعرض كفاحه ليتعلّم الآخرون [In Leipzig…People screen their struggles so others may learn] al-Akhbar, 15 December 1973, 32-33, Orient-Institut Beirut Library Anaïs Farine From Film Festivals...
Sana Abu Antoun Sana Bou Antoun joined the OIB in 2022 for a duration of 12 months as an affiliated PhD student. She is a PhD Student in the Department of Arabic Studies at...
Sarah Sabban In the post 9/11 context, permanent and temporary exhibitions of “Islamic art” aimed at countering the effects of “terrorist Islam” by improving the image of “Islam” and humanizing Muslims in the eyes...
Sophia Schröder Consociational settlements are often negotiated after violent conflict and various communities have to be accommodated. Cooperation between political elites is an essential characteristic in consociational theory – necessary to both the establishment...
Javier Guirado Alonso On February 22nd, 1972, Sheikh Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani appeared on TV promising a new era of prosperity for Qatar, linking “the glorious present with an ancient past”.[1] Sheikh Khalifa’s...
Fatima Al-Bazzal My project tackles an under-represented and highly dispersed manuscript archive. According to a popular narrative distributed among the people of Jabal Amil Region, today’s Southern Lebanon, Ahmad Pasha al-Jazzar, the Ottoman governor...
