Almawrouth
A new addition to our collection from the MENA region is „al-Maurūṯ“ (الموروث / Almawrouth / Almourooth). This quarterly journal focuses on art and culture in the Arabic world.
The journal is published by the … Read more
Tag Archives: Arabic
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The University and State Library Saxony-Anhalt (ULB) in Halle is looking for a library employee starting January 1, 2020 within the project “Specialized Information Service (FID) Middle East, North Africa and Islamic Studies” funded by the German Research … Read more
Conference: “Words Laying Down the Law”
Translating Arabic Legal Discourse
The Governance Programme at the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations invites papers in the disciplines of legal anthropology, law and comparative law, legal pragmatics, sociolinguistics and discourse analysis, politics and translation … Read more
International Workshop: “Gender, Fashion, and Embodiment in Islam”
The workshop wants to compare the dynamics in the so-called “Islamic center” (the Arabian Peninsula) with developments in the so called “Muslim Periphery”. It aims to problematize the discursive and lived interactions between gender, fashion, spirituality, religion, class, and ethnicity.… Read more
International Conference in Bern: “The Near Eastern Saddle Period”
The Near Eastern Saddle Period: The Formation of Modern Concepts in Arabic, Turkish, and Persian
The Near Eastern saddle period can initially be suspected between 1860 and 1940, a period of great terminological and semantic variety and contestation in vibrant, … Read more
2nd Conference of the Fachverband Arabisch e.V.
Competency Orientation in Arabic Language Teaching
The so-called competence orientation determines curricula and targets for modern foreign languages in the German-speaking education systems. Arabic didactics has hardly dealt with this topic yet.
However, the same applies to the target language … Read more
Symposium: Digital Arab Diasporas: Archiving, Curating, Narrating
From the migration of Lebanese migrants to the Americas in the 19th century, to the mass movements of North Africans to France in the 20th century, to the displacement of millions of Palestinian, Syrian and Iraqi refugees in more recent … Read more