On their study trip to Lebanon, the Rückert-Gesellschaft (the literary society committed to the preservation of the works of German poet and Orientalist Friedrich Rückert) stopped for a visit and lively talks at the OIB. Their attention was also attracted by a book table with rare editions of Rückert works.

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Panel discussion in Cooperation with the German Embassy and BAKS
May 20, OIB


On the occasion of the visit of the Federal College for Security Studies (BAKS) to the region ("Engagement in Crisis Regions"), the OIB hosted a discussion with Scarlett Haddad (L'Orient Le Jour), Dr. Thomas Scheffler (OIB, Moderator), MP Dr. Bassem Shabb (Future Movement), German Ambassador Birgitta Siefker-Eberle (from left to right), and many guests from the Lebanese politics, academia, and journalism.

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Lecture of Prof. Dr. Dietrich Jung (University of Southern Denmark)
18 May, OIB

Prof. Dr. Dietrich Jung giving his lecture about "Orientalists, Islamists and the Global Public Sphere".

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Exhibition: 80 Years of Bibliotheca Islamica - From Manuscripts to Books
May 17-21, Notre Dame University-Louaize

The OIB exhibition at Notre Dame University attracted many interested students.

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Prof. Dr. Wadad Kadi, Emerita (University of Chicago)
April 27 and 28, OIB

Prof. Dr. Kadi giving a lecture on papyrus documents and literary sources. She also held a seminar about the same subject at the OIB.

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Dr. Sune Haugbølle giving a lecture about "War and Memory" at the OIB.

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Lecture by Samira Aghacy (Libanese American University)
April 6, OIB

Prof. Samira Aghacy lecturing about masculine identity in the fiction of the Arab East.

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Lecture by Prof. Dr. Georg Glasze and Dr. Shadia Husseini (University Erlangen-Nuremberg)
March 30, OIB


Prof. Dr. Georg Glasye & Dr. Shadia Husseini are giving a lecture about "Perspective of "New Cultural GeographY": A Case Study on Imaginative Geographies in Arab Media.
 

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Workshop: Hybridity of Natural Disasters
March 25-27, OIB

Dr. Yahya Michot making a point during the workshop's first round of lectures.

Prof. Dr. Schenk elaborating.	Prof. Dr. Enderwitz and Prof. Dr. Tsugitaka engaged in a conversation over dinner.

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Lecture by Dr. Andreas Pflitsch (Free University of Berlin)
March 22, OIB

Dr. Pflitsch taking on questions.	Prof. Dr. Aghacy posing a question during the subsequent discussion.

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Talk with Kamal Salibi
February 16, OIB


Historian Kamal Salibi answering questions of colleagues and researchers.

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Poetry Reading
February 8, OIB 


Lyrical evening at the OIB: Fuad Rifka, Samira Aghacy and Knut Ødegård (from left to right) reading poems by Knut Ødegård in Arabic, English and Norwegian.

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Opening of the Exhibition "From Manuscripts to Books"
January 18, Unesco Palace Beirut


The exhibition in the Unesco Palace atttracts the attention of many visitors.

Bianca Dormuth, First Secretary of the German Embassy, opening the exhibition.

In focus: New and old volumes of the Bibliotheca Islamica.

Layla Barakat, coordinator of Beirut World Book Capital, talking to OIB director Stefan Leder and Antoine Harb, director of the Unesco Palace, after the opening ceremony.


Prof. Ridwan al-Sayyid speaking at the opening ceremony....


...and explaining how an editor works on a manuscript.

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