Current projects

The Japanese Red Army in Lebanon: Solidarity, Militancy, and Transregional Connectivity (Claudia Derichs)

Catastrophe, Memory & Critique

The ABC of Abū Bakr al-Shanawānī (d. 1610). Arabic letter semiotics on the threshold of modern times (Berenike Metzler)

Discourses on Statehood in Iraq (Christian Thuselt)

Decolonization, Cold War and the Rise of Authoritarianism in the Middle East (Carol Hakim)

A Literary History of Arab Futures: Enlightenment, Ruins, and Dystopia (Zeina Halabi)

Kant and the Non-European: Critique, Justice and Freedom

Global Weimar – Global Nahda (Princeton University and Orient-Institut Beirut Cooperation)

Critical Theory from the Global South: New Perspectives from Beirut (Sami Khatib)

Women and religion in post-conflict societies (Stephanie Dornschneider-Elkink)

From Arabic to Latin: Moving sciences of music around the Mediterranean (Rosy Azar Beyhom)

Abrahamic Interdependence - Relationship of the Islamic to the Jewish in Marital Law (Ahmed M. F. Abd-Elsalam)

From Copying to Burning the Qur’an: Creating Models & Transposing Sacrality (Alya Karame)