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.

Exclusive publication of Angelika Neuwirth’s honorary lecture

OIB_upclose, the OIBlog from Beirut and Cairo, features an exclusive publication of Prof. Dr. Angelika Neuwirth’s...

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

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.