An Academic hub in the heart of Beirut

The Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB) is a non-profit German academic research center and part of the Max Weber Foundation – International Humanities, mainly funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. It conducts and supports research on the Near East and the larger Arab world in past and present.

The OIB Library

The library of the OIB is a research and reference library within the broader field of Near and Middle Eastern Studies. It provides a collection of books, journals and newspapers that comprises more than 140.000 volumes and in addition more than 90.000 electronic resources (Ebooks, journals and databases) that are accessible within the OIB network to facilitate research.

THE OIB EVENTS

New publications by research associate Zeina G. Halabi

Launch of the 11th issue of Rusted Radishes: Beirut Literary and Art Journal, under the thematic title “Labor and Idleness”. Rusted Radishes is an Arabic-English literary and art journal that Zeina G. Halabi co-edits. The journal features cross-genre works by contemporary artists and writers, most of whom are from the Arab world.

New Translation by OIB Director Jens Hanssen

OIB Director Jens Hanssen published a slightly amended translation of an article that first appeared in al-Quds al-‘Arabi on 28 February, 2024. In it, the author Mohammad Ali Atassi offers historical reflections on the lives and deaths of two iconic figures in the Arab communist movement in Syria and Lebanon.