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I’m giving this public zoom talk for @transregionalis on Wed 9 June, 5pm (Berlin time) titled “Reading Dystopian Impulses in Contemporary Alexandria.” Please register via [email protected] Fb event: fb.me/e/3SLM07Wds Web: eume-berlin.de/veranstaltunge… Hope to see you there :)

3year PhD position at Oslo University on emotions and cognition. The candidate is supposed to work on the interface between literature and cognition (what does literature do with our minds, what did it in the past, e.g., during the Nahḍa) jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

Join us on Monday 5.30 pm (CEST) via Zoom Zoom Link: wwu.zoom.us/j/66498691975?… <eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…> Meeting-ID: 664 9869 1975 Passcode: 232583

Was für eine tolle Initiative! Studierende von Fächern mit Bezug zu Westasien/Nordafrika im deutschsprachigen Raum haben sich vernetzt, einen Dachverband gegründet & eine spannende Online-Vorlesungsreihe organisiert. Für Islamic Studies | Uni Freiburg mit dabei sind Olmo Gölz & ich.

Short article on my recent research project on the "TRAFO-Blog for Transregional Research"! مقال صغير في مشروع بحثي الحالي على TRAFO-Blog for Transregional Research! trafo.hypotheses.org/31191

Let me tell you about the cover photo 💔 #Syrian architect and artist Mohamad Hafez creates these miniature installations inside suitcases. Paired with audio clips he collected from interviews with refugees, his series ‘Unpacked’ is about the homes we lost but continue to carry.

New #AGYAPublication out now! The beautifully illustrated book ‘Anthology of Friendship in Arabic Literature’ by AGYA member Enass Khansa إيناس خنسه & AGYA alumnus Bilal Orfali بلال الأرفه لي is now available in #Arabic as #openaccess publication: bit.ly/3K0EGG2 #Arabicliterature #friendship

Call for Papers: Who Reads Modern Arabic Literature, How and Why? International Conference at Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany App Deadline: 30 Jun 2022 Conference: 5-7 Oct 2022 Details here: bit.ly/3z7hC56

NEW on our library shelves—Andrew Hammond's 'Late Ottoman Origins of Modern Islamic Thought: Turkish and Egyptian Thinkers on the Disruption of Islamic Knowledge' (Cambridge University Press, 2023): bit.ly/3BCEQ3Q

I never thought that I'd see myself in American Political Science Review!👇 Here I urge more attention to the emotional experience of research for research participants due to how those emotions affect both the data that researchers collect & the ethics of collecting it. Please check it out & share!

I’m excited to announce the publication of my essay, “Strait Flow,” which explores code-switching and multilingual creativity in Moroccan and Spanish hip hop. It appears in the latest issue of the journal PMLA: cambridge.org/core/journals/….

Just out in Cairo!! 📣📣 My new book “Al-Fahhama” {The Explanation Machine}, an introduction to social theory in Egyptian colloquial Arabic through 120 key concepts! Available soon in all Diwan Bookstores branches and published by Diwan too