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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)
Lebanon’s Art World at Home and Abroad: Trajectories of artists and artworks in/from Lebanon since 1943 (LAWHA) (Nadia von Maltzahn)
The New Testament quotations in Ibrahim al-Biqāʿīs (st. 1480) commentary on the Koran (Thomas Würtz)
BALANCE AS JUSTICE: DECONSTRUCTION OF PREMODERN ETHICS ON THE BASIS OF ḲINĀLĪZĀDE ꜤALĪ ÇELEBĪ’S AKHLĀḲ-I ꜤALĀ’Ī (FATIH ERMIŞ)
From Copying to Burning the Qur’an: Creating Models & Transposing Sacrality (Alya Karame)
Living in Limbo (Sarah El Bulbeisi)
Escape to Europe: Comparative Refugee Imaginaries (Markus Schmitz)
Previous projects
Cultural Policies in Lebanon: Cultural Institutions between State and Society (Nadia von Maltzahn)
Fictio Statis (Pierre France)
The Lebanese Intifada of October 17: Perspectives from Within (Birgit Schäbler)
Relations in the Ideoscape: Middle Eastern Students in the Eastern Bloc (1950's to 1991) (Birgit Schäbler)
Europe and the Middle East (Birgit Schäbler)
Picturing the (Un)Dead: Reflections and Deconstructions of Lebanese and Iranian "Martyrs" in Contemporary Photo-Related Art-Practices (Agnes Remeder)
Hierarchical Rationality of Religious Beliefs System in Islamic and Christian Theology (Qodratullah Qorbani)
The inimitability of the Qur’ān (i‘jāz al-qur’ān) in transconfessional contexts of the early ῾Abbāsid period (Hans-Peter Pökel)
Cultural Mobilities and Political Spaces (Christopher Bahl)
Al-Qadi al-Fadil (Stefan Leder)
Bedouin Syria (Johann Büssow)
Borrowing and lending (Jonathan Kriener, Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Clergy and conflict management (Thomas Scheffler)
Higher Education and Citizenship in Egypt (Daniele Cantini)
History Writing at Lebanese Universities (Jonathan Kriener)
Knowledge in postgraduate studies (Daniele Cantini)
Mamâlik – Spatial Dynamics of Islamic Polities (Kurt Franz)
Media culture transformation (Hanan Badr)
Museums in Dialogue with the Future (Felicia Meynersen)
Political slogans (Nader Srage)
Political thought (Stefan Leder)
Rural societies in an age of urbanisation (Astrid Meier)
S.C.R.I.P.T. - Source Companion for the Research on Islamic Political Thought (Stefan Leder)
Talking about art – aesthetic reflection in Egypt and Lebanon (Monique Bellan)
Tracing an author’s library (Torsten Wollina)
A Literal World: Perceiving the World as a Linguistic Construction before the Emergence of the Metaphor in Arabo-Islamic Thought (Abdallah Soufan)
Open Arabic Periodical Editions (OpenArabicPE) (Till Grallert)
“Women on the streets!: a genealogy of food riots in the Middle East between the 18th and 20th centuries“ (Till Grallert)
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Theory & Method Seminar (Zeina Halabi) By invitation only
The OIB Colloquium (Fatih Ermis)
The Lebanese-Syrian Studies Colloquium (Carol Hakim)
The Egyptian Studies Lecture Series (Carol Hakim)
The Hans-Robert Roemer Fellow Lecture Series (Jens Hanssen)
The OIB-LAfOS Annual Lecture On Lebanese-Ottoman Studies (Jens Hanssen)
The Annual Joseph-Van-Ess Lecture (Jens Hanssen)
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Call for Early-Career Fellows of the Vienna Center for Advanced Studies (ViCAS)
The ERC project KNOW: Polymathy and Interdisciplinarity in Premodern Islamic Epistemic Cultures (1200–1800) invites proposals for its first international workshop
Call for papers – Aid Networks and Mechanisms in a Migratory Context: Europe and the Middle East (1945-1970) – Deadline: 30 June 2025
Call for applications for a fully funded PhD fellowship at Ghent University
الذكرى المئوية للثورة السورية الكبرى (١٩٢٥-٢٠٢٥) في Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l’homme (MMSH), Aix-en-Provence
Call for Papers: The Making of the Lebanese Working Class, Historical Materialism, London Conference, November 2025
A workshop on editing Arabic texts in manuscripts organised by Farouk Jabre Center for Arabic & Islamic Science & Philosophy
Call for applications for the international Senior Fellowship Programme of the College for Social Sciences and Humanities, an Institute for Advanced Study based in Essen (Germany) that is part of the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr)
Junior social scientists working on MENA region – deadline: 4 May 2025
Associate Senior Lecturer in History (Middle Eastern) – Lund University
CALL FOR PAPERS for the Symposium ARAB-GERMAN RELATIONS IN THE MIRROR OF HISTORY
استكتاب للمشاركة في ندوة العلاقات العربية-الألمانية في مرآة التاريخ
Call for papers: Diasporas, Exiles, Migrants, and Refugees from Europe in the Middle East and North Africa in the 19th and 20th Centuries. A workshop held on July 8-10, 2025, at the Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, Germany
IEG Fellowship - The Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz call for applications for one fellowship starting in September 2025. Application Deadline: April 14, 2025
Faculty vacancy announcement – The City University of New York Faculty Open Rank - Open Rank, Palestinian Studies Cluster Hire/ Art & Humanities
Call for Proposals for a conference on the Lebanese Civil War on the 50th anniversary of its outbreak
B2B - Call for Papers - Orient-Institut Istanbul
Call for submissions: Palestine Studies, German Studies: Special issue of The German Quarterly
Call for Applications: Why Location Matters: Research in the Arab World | دعوة إلى تقديم الطلبات: أهمّية مواقع الأبحاث في العالم العربي
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Call for applications: Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity for Researchers (f/m/d) From Palestine and Lebanon
Call for applications: Khaled al-Asaad Solidarity Funds for researchers in danger
Call for Papers International and Interdisciplinary Conference: "Philosophy and Poetry in Islamic Contexts"
Call for applications: PhD position at the ERC-KNOW
Call for applications: Postdoc position at the ERC-KNOW
Call for the Winter School "Reading and Analysing Ottoman Manuscript Sources,” March 17-21, 2025, Rethymno, Institute for Mediterranean Studies/FORTH, deadline December 15, 2024
MECAM Traveling Academy for 2024-2025
Link zum Call for Sessions (in englischer und deutscher Sprache)
ACSS-FMSH Short-Term Postdoctoral Mobility Fellowship Program in the Social Sciences and Humanities, deadline: Dec 09, 2024
Call for applications: Scholarship for Lebanon and Turkey-based researchers for the project "Removal Infrastructures for Syrians in Lebanon and Turkey," deadline: 19/06/2024
Call for applications: 12 Doctoral Positions at the graduate program "Post-Eurocentric Europe: Narratives of a World Province in Transformation” at the Department of Literature, Art and Media studies of the University of Konstanz, deadline: 30/06/2024
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Calls & Grants
Call for Early-Career Fellows of the Vienna Center for Advanced Studies (ViCAS)
The ERC project KNOW: Polymathy and Interdisciplinarity in Premodern Islamic Epistemic Cultures (1200–1800) invites proposals for its first international workshop
Call for papers – Aid Networks and Mechanisms in a Migratory Context: Europe and the Middle East (1945-1970) – Deadline: 30 June 2025
Call for applications for a fully funded PhD fellowship at Ghent University
الذكرى المئوية للثورة السورية الكبرى (١٩٢٥-٢٠٢٥) في Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l’homme (MMSH), Aix-en-Provence
Call for Papers: The Making of the Lebanese Working Class, Historical Materialism, London Conference, November 2025
A workshop on editing Arabic texts in manuscripts organised by Farouk Jabre Center for Arabic & Islamic Science & Philosophy
Call for applications for the international Senior Fellowship Programme of the College for Social Sciences and Humanities, an Institute for Advanced Study based in Essen (Germany) that is part of the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr)
Junior social scientists working on MENA region – deadline: 4 May 2025
Associate Senior Lecturer in History (Middle Eastern) – Lund University
CALL FOR PAPERS for the Symposium ARAB-GERMAN RELATIONS IN THE MIRROR OF HISTORY
استكتاب للمشاركة في ندوة العلاقات العربية-الألمانية في مرآة التاريخ
Call for papers: Diasporas, Exiles, Migrants, and Refugees from Europe in the Middle East and North Africa in the 19th and 20th Centuries. A workshop held on July 8-10, 2025, at the Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, Germany
IEG Fellowship - The Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz call for applications for one fellowship starting in September 2025. Application Deadline: April 14, 2025
Faculty vacancy announcement – The City University of New York Faculty Open Rank - Open Rank, Palestinian Studies Cluster Hire/ Art & Humanities
Call for Proposals for a conference on the Lebanese Civil War on the 50th anniversary of its outbreak
B2B - Call for Papers - Orient-Institut Istanbul
Call for submissions: Palestine Studies, German Studies: Special issue of The German Quarterly
Call for Applications: Why Location Matters: Research in the Arab World | دعوة إلى تقديم الطلبات: أهمّية مواقع الأبحاث في العالم العربي
Stellvertretender Direktor(in)
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter(in) (German version)
Research Associate positions
Bibliotheksleiter(in)
MESA/ACSS/OIB Call for applications
Call for applications: MECAM Fellowship Programme 2025-2026
Call for applications: Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity for Researchers (f/m/d) From Palestine and Lebanon
Call for applications: Khaled al-Asaad Solidarity Funds for researchers in danger
Call for Papers International and Interdisciplinary Conference: "Philosophy and Poetry in Islamic Contexts"
Call for applications: PhD position at the ERC-KNOW
Call for applications: Postdoc position at the ERC-KNOW
Call for the Winter School "Reading and Analysing Ottoman Manuscript Sources,” March 17-21, 2025, Rethymno, Institute for Mediterranean Studies/FORTH, deadline December 15, 2024
MECAM Traveling Academy for 2024-2025
Link zum Call for Sessions (in englischer und deutscher Sprache)
ACSS-FMSH Short-Term Postdoctoral Mobility Fellowship Program in the Social Sciences and Humanities, deadline: Dec 09, 2024
Call for applications: Scholarship for Lebanon and Turkey-based researchers for the project "Removal Infrastructures for Syrians in Lebanon and Turkey," deadline: 19/06/2024
Call for applications: 12 Doctoral Positions at the graduate program "Post-Eurocentric Europe: Narratives of a World Province in Transformation” at the Department of Literature, Art and Media studies of the University of Konstanz, deadline: 30/06/2024
Resident scholar program for Lebanon-based and Lebanese scholars at the Finnish Institute in the Middle East
Marie Curie Fellowships
ACSS Early Career Fellowships
Gerald D. Feldman travel grants
Vacancies
Residential Postdoctoral Fellowships
Residential Doctoral Fellowships
OIB Research Relief Fellowships 2022/2023
Academic Visitors
Affiliated Researchers
Fellows-at-large
Journalists-in-Residence
Hans Robert Roemer Fellow
Praktika/Interships
OIB-Praktika 2025 (German version)
OIB Internships 2025 (English version)
Guest rooms
