We are delighted to announce the launch of our new book, published within the Bibliotheca Islamica series

في ذكرى رحيل محمّد الحجيريّ / In Loving Memory of Muhammad al-Hujairi

Levke Sofia Christiansen just published an essay on archiving memory in Lebanon

A series of talks on: Revolutionary Disappointment and Persistence

Our residential postdoctoral fellow Zeead Yaghi had just published a report on pathways towards food sovereignty in Lebanon

OIB journalist-in-residence Justin Salhani covers the recognition of the state of Palestine by the UK, Canada and Australia in Aljazeera

The OIB team wishes everyone a calm and restful summer break

OIB’s former Roemer Fellow, Sara Binay, and research associate, Ahmed Abd-Elsalam, just published their OIB-research in the journal Religions

OIB's former director Prof. Birgit Schäbler has just edited "Beiruter Texte und Studien" No. 144

OIB director Jens Hanssen contributes to a special Max-Weber-Stiftung issue on the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Mounir Zahran, an affliated OIB-researcher, publishes an article in the German periodical Merkur about his moving return to Syria earlier this year

Our new catalogue of publications is out!

In Loving Memory of Rabia Omeirat / في ذكرى رحيل ربيعة عميرات

Journalist in Residence Yassin al-Hajj Saleh

Nothing Lasts Forever: Syria Through the Eyes of the Free ما في للأبد: سوريا بعيون الأحرار

Our research associate Alya Karame received the Cochrane Research Fellowship for 2025 at the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin

Our research associate Zeina G. Halabi received a six-week Civitella Ranieri Writing Fellowship for 2025

A new article published by our research associate Christian Thuselt

OIB’s Research Associate Sarah El Bulbeisi had just published:

New published essay by OIB doctoral fellow Jan Altaner

El Alamein: Between Egypt & Germany

OIB fellow-at-Large Max Weiss, Professor of History and Comparative Literature at Princeton University, has just published the first few pages of Adania Shibli’s new…

The Grand Mufti of Egypt receives a delegation from the OIB to discuss ways of joint cooperation

New monograph by OIB postdoctoral fellow Benjamin Raßbach

New interview with OIB Director Jens Hanssen at Divan – Das Arabische Kulturhaus

New review essay by OIB doctoral fellow Jan Altaner

Address of the OIB director concerning the current situation of the institute

New Lectures by OIB Director Jens Hanssen in North America

Lecture by OIB research associate Sami Khatib: "After Unreason: Global Injustice and Legacy of Enlightenment: A philosophical contribution to Kantian ideas in the…

New Article by OIB doctoral fellow Jan Altaner: “Eskalation im Nahen Osten: Diplomatie ist gefragt"

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

New Lecture Series “Kant and the Non-European: Critique, Justice and Freedom” starts on 5 September 2024

Exclusive publication of Angelika Neuwirth’s honorary lecture

Obituary of former OIB Research Associate Werner Ende in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

New article by OIB Research Associate Sarah El Bulbeisi

"Oblivion Culture: Countering the German taboo on Palestinian trauma,” published in Cabinet Magazine

New Article by OIB doctoral fellow Jan Altaner: "Wie starb Hind Rajab?”, published in Jacobin

Annual Report - Jahresbericht 2023

New article by OIB director Jens Hanssen

New Article by OIB Research Associate Sarah El Bulbeisi

New Article by OIB doctoral fellow Jan Altaner

New article by OIB research associate Sami Khatib

Symposium on "Immanuel Kant und die aktuelle Relevanz seiner Philosophie für die arabische Welt” in Berlin

Latest publication of our institute

Digital populism in Iraq: the case of Muqtada al-Sadr

OIB director Jens Hanssen met with former prime minister Tammam Salam

OIB director met with Francesca Albanese

Lecture by Avi Shlaim on "Zionism and the Jews of Iraq: A Personal Perspective

OIB research associate Zeina G. Halabi and Adania Shibli at Dar El-Nimer

New article by OIB doctoral fellow Jan Altaner

UNRWA – Schuldig, auch ohne Beweise?

German ambassador to Lebanon visits the OIB

New publications by research associate Zeina G. Halabi

Concerning Academic Freedom, 1784 and 2024

Global Weimar - Global Nahda

Sheikh Zayed Book Award

مفهوم التضامن في الخطاب الأكاديمي الألماني

تهافت التهافت في قصور الاستشراق

LATEST NEWS OF OUR RESEARCHERS

Video on the conference held at NDU in cooperation with OIB on Malik-Heidegger (12th of June 2023)

Josef-van-Ess-Memorial-Lecture

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Job Opportunities / Stellenangebote

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PHC Cèdre Fertile Liban (2023-2025)

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Translating Politics into Art and Literature in the Arab World

Relations in the Ideoscape: Middle Eastern Students in the Eastern Bloc (1950's to 1991)

OIB after the blast

Call for Papers

OIB Research Fellowships 2022/2023

This call for applications is now closed.

Annual Report - Jahresbericht 2021

Newsletter #2, July 2022

Library announcements

LAWHA (Lebanon's Art World at Home and Abroad: Trajectories of artists and artworks in/from Lebanon since 1943)

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Newsletter #3 December 2022

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Alya Karame was granted the Barakat Publication Award in support of her book The Forgotten Qur’ans of the Medieval Eastern Islamic World: The Ghaznavid and Ghurid Dynasties which will be published by Edinburgh University Press in 2023.

LAWHA NEWS

Arab-German Academy of Sciences and Humanities seeks new members!

Honoring the Memory & Legacy of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

Exploring the Future of Libraries in the Middle East

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