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 library. It provides a collection of books, journals and newspapers that comprises around 130.000 volumes. The collection includes text editions as well as literature related to Middle East studies in Arabic and many western languages.

Upcoming events 2022/2023

(Call for Papers) Summer Academy on the Entangled Histories of Concepts in the Bengal to Balkans Complex (B2B)

September 4th -15th, 2023, Orient-Institut Istanbul (Teutonia)

A talk by Eid Mohamed

Occidentalist Mapping: Arab Spring and Self subversive Representation of the Other