Arab Berlin: Dynamics of Transformation

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2023

Arab Berlin

Dynamics of Transformation

Edited by: Hanan Badr and Nahed Samour
Funded by: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

In the series Urban Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839462638

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About this book

Berlin is increasingly emerging as a hub of Arab intellectual life in Europe. In this first study of Arab culture to zoom in on the thriving metropolis, the contributors shed light on the dynamics of transformation with Arabs as agents, subjects, and objects of change in the spheres of politics, society and history, gender, demographics and migration, media and culture, and education and research. The kaleidoscopic character of the collection, embracing academic articles, essays, interviews and photos, reflects critical encounters in Berlin. It brings together authors from inter- and multidisciplinary fields and backgrounds and invites the readers into a much-needed conversation on contemporary transformations.

Author / Editor information

Hanan Badr is Professor and Chair for Public Spheres and Inequalities at the Department of Communication, University of Salzburg, Austria. Her work focuses on the interactions between journalism, media, power, and transformation processes, focusing on digitization and globalization. She held positions at Freie Universität Berlin, Cairo University, Gulf University for Sciences and Technology, and Orient-Institut Beirut/Max Weber Foundation. Her work has been published in Digital Journalism, International Communication Gazette, Media and Communication, and Media, War & Conflict. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Communication. She serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Communication, Digital Journalism, and the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication. Her awards include the Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress and the DAAD Scholarship Award. She is elected Chair for Activism, Communication and Social Change at the International Communication Association.
Nahed Samour (Dr.)is a postdoctoral researcher and Core Emerging Investigator at the Integrative Research Institute Law & Society in the Faculty of Law at Humboldt University Berlin. She studied law and Islamic studies at the universities of Bonn, Birzeit/Ramallah, London (SOAS), Berlin (HU), Harvard, and Damascus. She was a doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt/Main. She clerked at the Court of Appeals in Berlin, held a postdoc position at the Eric Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights, Helsinki University, Finland, and was an Early Career Fellow at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Göttingen Institute for Advance Study. She also taught as Junior Faculty at the Harvard Law School Institute for Global Law and Policy from 2014-2018. Her current work focuses on religion, race and gender in law.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
List of Figures Open Access Download PDF	9
Introduction
1. Arab Berlin – Ambivalent Tales of a City Hanan Badr and Nahed Samour Open Access Download PDF	13
Part 1: Exile, Migration, and Belonging
2. On the Need to Shape the Arab Exile Body in Berlin Amro Ali Open Access Download PDF	31
3. Amal, Berlin! Arab media, Berlin-style Abdolrahman Omaren and Julia Gerlach Open Access Download PDF	55
4. The Arabs of Berlin face generations laden with guilt and trauma Nazeeha Saeed Open Access Download PDF	63
5. Hermeneutic Chicanery A contribution to the debate on migration and memory in Germany Sonja Hegasy Open Access Download PDF	83
6. The Arab in the law of Berlin, or: ‘How does it feel to be a problem?’ The figure of the Arab, or the case for Arabness Nahed Samour Open Access Download PDF	103
Part 2: Inclusion, Arts, and Activism
7. On framing and de-framing the queer Arab Iskandar Abdalla Open Access Download PDF	123
8. “When I got off at Friedrichstraße, I was so happy to be back in East Berlin!” Mahmood Dabdoub Open Access Download PDF	141
9. Berlin: A City of Indefinite Dreams? Hashem Al-Ghaili Open Access Download PDF	149
10. “We want to deconstruct the radical discourses in society” Julia Gerlach and Younes Al-Amayra Open Access Download PDF	157
Part 3: Social Life
11. “Berlin has that same inescapable magnetic energy of Cairo!” Julia Gerlach and Mahmoud Salem Open Access Download PDF	163
12. The tastes of Arab Berlin Manifestations of Arab snack culture in the changing urban migration regime of Berlin Miriam Stock Open Access Download PDF	169
13. Will my son grow up to be sexist? Abir Kopty Open Access Download PDF	189
14. Biographies in Motion An academic-artistic photo exhibition gives voice to Arab newcomers to Berlin Eman Helal and Hanan Badr Open Access Download PDF	197
Part 4: Cultural Life
15. That’s how you people do things around here, right?! Fadi Abdelnour Open Access Download PDF	217
16. “Traveling for a better world with Alsharq Travels” Julia Gerlach and Christoph Dinkelaker Open Access Download PDF	225
17. Arendt’s Shadow Salam-Schalom from Berlin to the Holy Land Mohammad Alwahaib Open Access Download PDF	231
18. “Memories in the Nights of Despair” Jussuf Abbo in Berlin’s Yiddish Literature of the 1920s Tal Hever-Chybowski Open Access Download PDF	239
Part 5: International Encounters in Education
19. Arabic Sciences in the Humboldtian Cosmos Potentials for the Humboldt Forum Detlev Quintern Open Access Download PDF	251
20. Ḥasan Tawfīq al-Adl (d. 1904) – Arabic Tutor and Author at the Seminar für Orientalische Sprachen in Berlin, 1887–1892 Islam Dayeh Open Access Download PDF	263
21. “In Berlin, I feel free – but COVID-19 made the city feel like a giant prison” Julia Gerlach and Nadine Abdalla Open Access Download PDF	295
22. “We help international academics who have found their way to Germany” Julia Gerlach and Florian Kohstall Open Access Download PDF	299
23. On the Egyptian-German transfer of medical knowledge On cooperation, mobility, and similarities Ehab El Refaee Open Access Download PDF	305
Part 6: Outlook
24. Beyond Berlin Why the rest of Germany also matters Jan Claudius Völkel Open Access Download PDF	317
25. “I’ve seen them grow up. They’re almost like my children.” Julia Gerlach and Salah Yousif Open Access Download PDF	327
Appendix
Contributors’ Biographies Open Access Download PDF	333

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 342
Keywords: Berlin; Culture; Urban Development; Globalization; Postcolonialism; Migration; City; Interculturalism; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: September 27, 2023
ISBN: 9783839462638