I will be giving two talks on my first book and new book project in Berlin on Thursday, July 9. All are most warmly welcome to join. 2–4 pm, Book talk at @zmo-berlin.bsky.social: Empire of Refugees Many thanks to Dr. Ergün Özgür and Dr. Kai Kresse for hosting. www.zmo.de/en/events/em... (1)

📅 2 July 2026, 5 pm 🕰️ We are delighted to announce the fourth and last lecture of our ZMO Summer Colloquium by Talha Çiçek (University College Dublin). You are warmly invited to attend the event either in person at ZMO or online via Zoom. 💻 www.zmo.de/veranstaltun...

Invitation to join our Oman lecture tomorrow with Dr. Atique Ahmed Behan (Sultan Qaboos University, Oman). The lecture takes place at ZMO with the possibility to join via Zoom: www.zmo.de/veranstaltun... Supported by Deutsche Oman Stiftung.

Congratulations to Aksana Ismailbekova on her new book "Migration and Welfare Austerity - Mobilizing Kinship for Care, Welfare and Development in Kyrgyzstan" (Berghahn, New York, Oxford, 2026). We are happy to host the book launch on Monday, June 22 at 5 pm at ZMO. www.zmo.de/en/events/mi...

📢 Stellenausschreibungen am ZMO Das Projekt „PLANTH: Shifting Landscapes of Human-Plant Co-Mobilities between Europe and Asia“ unter der Leitung von Dr. Hilal Alkan sucht eine/n Verwaltungskoordinator/in und eine studentische Hilfskraft ab dem 1. August 2026. www.zmo.de/ueber-uns/ka...

Kai Kresse launched the Kiswahili Edition of his book “Swahili Muslim Publics and Postcolonial Experience in Coastal Kenya”, translated by William Mkufya as “Haki na Mamlaka: Kadhia za Waislamu wa Kenya Baada ya Ukoloni", at the University of Dar es Salaam on 14/4/26 www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbtY...

We are excited to announce our upcoming book talk with Yasser Elsheshtawy (Arab Gulf States Institute Washington, DC & Columbia University): Cities in Fragments: Modernism, Memory, and the Making of the Contemporary Arab City 🗓️ 11 June, 2026 at 5 pm at ZMO ⏱️ More info: www.zmo.de/en/events/ci...

📅 28 May 2026, 5 pm 🕰️ We are delighted to announce the third lecture of our ZMO Summer Colloquium by Jan Zofka from @leibnizgwzo.bsky.social You are warmly invited to attend the event either in person at ZMO or online via Zoom. 💻 www.zmo.de/en/events/th...

Heute ist das ZMO auf dem Marktplatz der Ideen bei der Auftaktveranstaltung des neuen Rahmenprogramms für die Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften beim Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt. Dr. Max Kramer präsentiert hier seinen Film "Sufis Entangled".

Neue ZMO kitchen talks #Podcastfolge 📣 Mit der Programmleiterin des Brandenburg Museums für Zukunft, Gegenwart und Geschichte, Dr. Katalin Krasznahorkai, der Künstlerin Sonya Schönberger und der Südasienwissenschaftlerin Dr. Heike Liebau.

📅 30 April 2026, 5 pm 🕰️ We are delighted to announce the second lecture of our ZMO Summer Colloquium by Aya Labanieh (EUME, Forum Transregionale Studien). You are warmly invited to attend the event either in person at ZMO or online via Zoom. 💻 www.zmo.de/en/events/al...

The #US/#Israeli #war on #Iran and its allies has wide-ranging effects. But the #environmental damage is hardly put in focus. Dr Sana Chavoshian highlights the environmental impact of the war, as heavily polluted air and water can travel thousands of kilometres and thus affect the entire planet.

📢 Stellenausschreibung: Institutssekretariat am ZMO (39 Stunden/Monat) Zur Verstärkung unseres Teams am ZMO suchen wir Unterstützung für unser Sekretariat. Wir freuen uns auf Ihre aussagekräftigen Bewerbungsunterlagen! Bewerbungsschluss: 15. Mai 2026 Zur Ausschreibung: www.zmo.de/fileadmin/Ka...

Stip: Leibniz Fellowships “Value of the Past" (Leibniz Research Alliance, Potsdam) https://www.hsozkult.de/grant/id/stip-161422 Potsdam, -31.12.2027, Leibniz Research Alliance 'Value of the Past', Bewerbungsschluss: 30.06.2026 Leibniz Fellowships „Value of the Past“

📚Out now: Rethinking Islamic Modernism Religious Identity and Community in Colonial North India by Maria-Magdalena Pruss Open access 🔗 www.mqup.ca/Books/R/Reth... Maria has also been guest of our podcast series ZMO kitchen talks, where she talked about her book: open.spotify.com/episode/48A8....

Out now: In case you are interested in the 'Study of Pharmacy in Egypt under Nasser', please check out a new CRAFTE/ZMO-Working Paper by Sonja Hegasy: repositorium.zmo.de/receive/zmo_...

We are happy to announce and invite you to the first #lecture of our summer colloquium by Amidu Olalekan Sanni (Lagos State University, Nigeria) on 31 March, 2026, at 5 pm at ZMO or via Zoom. www.zmo.de/en/events/il...

Der Anthropologe Ahmad Moradi vom @zmo-berlin hat mit @nd-aktuell.de über den »tiefen Staat« im Iran und seinen Repressionsapparat gesprochen. www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1198...

Während des Ramadans gerät Ostjerusalem regelmäßig in die Schlagzeilen. Dabei geht es meist um Ausschreitungen, Zugangsbeschränkungen für Gläubige, Provokationen jüdischer Extremist*innen und Debatten um den Status der heiligen Orte. 🖊️Johannes Becker leibniz-lab-transformationen.de/2026/03/16/s...

📚Out now: ZMO's triannual yearbook The book, containing a sample cross section of articles and essays by ZMO researchers written over the past three years, shows the relevance of deeper reflections on realworld issues, past and present. repositorium.zmo.de/receive/zmo_...

Die Philipp Schwartz-Initiative ermöglicht verfolgten Forschenden, in Deutschland zu arbeiten. Warum das für alle Seiten Vorteile bringt, erklärt Ulrike Freitag, Direktorin des @zmo-berlin.bsky.social und Gastgeberin im Humboldt-Netzwerk, im @tagesspiegel.de www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/wir-b...

In February, Frédérick Madore and Vincent Hiribarren welcomed 26 experts from 16 countries in Hanover for "Charting New Territory: Digital Humanities and AI in African Studies," a scoping workshop funded by @VolkswagenStiftung. Short interviews with participants: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Du schreibst, vlogst oder blogst zu Themen rund um das östliche Europa – oder möchtest damit beginnen? Dann bewirb dich jetzt und besuche eine Woche lang ein Institut aus dem Leibniz-Forschungsnetzwerk Östliches Europa! Weitere Infos im Video und unter: www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/ueber-uns/ne...

Linguist Emmanuel Ngue Um (University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon) discusses how artificial intelligence & digital humanities can help preserve and teach indigenous languages. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpSY...

Die Lage zwischen #USA und #Iran spitzt sich weiter zu. Ein Militärschlag ist denkbar. Unser Kollege Ahmad Moradi war im Gespräch mit der Frankfurter Rundschau. Er fürchtet verheerende Konsequenzen für die iranische Gesellschaft. Eine Analyse. www.fr.de/politik/us-m...

We are happy to announce and invite you to the fifth #lecture of our winter colloquium #Disruption & #Survival by Alice Elliot (Goldsmiths University of London) on 26 February, 2026, at 5 pm at ZMO or via Zoom. www.zmo.de/en/events/sa...

We’re excited to invite you to Subkontinental: A South Asian Film Week, in Berlin from 30/1 to 7/2. Across 10 films, 6 South Asian countries & 3 venues, the festival, in partnership with @zmo-berlin.bsky.social brings together works by independent filmmakers from South Asia & its diaspora.

We would like to invite you to the book talk of Borícua Muslims: Everyday Cosmopolitanism among Puerto Rican Converts to Islam by Ken Chitwood (Universität Bayreuth) on Monday, 2 February 2026, 4:15 pm at the BSMCS, Arnimallee 11, 14195 Berlin. www.zmo.de/en/events/ev...

We are happy to announce and invite you to the fourth #lecture of our winter colloquium #Disruption & #Survival by Muna Dajani (London School of Economics). More info and registration: www.zmo.de/en/events/im...

Thursday 29 January: Dr Muna Dajani, inspired by Winona LaDuke’s ‘how do we grieve the death of a river’, on the Wadi Gaza River valley, a landscape resistant to erasure. Online and in-person at @zmo-berlin.bsky.social www.zmo.de/en/events/im...

🎙️Out now: A new ZMO kitchen talks podcast episode! With Frédérick Madore, hosted by Elisa Nobel-Dilaty 🔊 How can AI support historical and anthropological research— and where are its limits? And how might AI change the future of the humanities? zmo-kitchen-talks.podigee.io/14-neue-epis...

📢 Tomorrow, 11 December, at 4 pm 🕰️ Join the presentation of Nitin Sinha's new book "Against the Fetishisation of Plural Time". Discussants: Prabhu P. Mohapatra, University of Delhi & Zoltán Boldizsár Simon, Bielefeld University The book talk will be followed by a small reception. 🥂

Invitation to join us next Monday, December 15 at 5 pm for a lecture by our guest fellow Mohammed Al-Sudairi (Australian National University) on his new book "Narratives of Sino-Middle Eastern Futures". In-person or online via Zoom. www.zmo.de/en/events/na...

Yesterday, we spent an evening of lively discussion with a large and interested audience in our lecture hall with Dr Muriel Asseburg (SWP), who presented her book ‘7 October and the War in Gaza’, published in 2025. The evening was moderated by our director, Prof Dr Ulrike Freitag.

Einladung zur Buchvorstellung mit Muriel Asseburg am Montag, den 8. Dezember um 17h am ZMO.

📚Book Presentation of the Arabic translation of "Shared Margins: An Ethnography with Writers in Alexandria after the Revolution " by Samuli Schielke & Mukhtar Saad Shehata 📚 ⌚Thursday, December 4, 5pm. 🧏🏽‍♀️In Arabic and can be attended in-person at ZMO or online via Zoom. www.zmo.de/en/events/%D...

📍 Montag, 8. Dezember 2025 um 17h am Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient 🕰️ Buchvorstellung von Dr. Muriel Asseburg (@swp-berlin.org) Anmeldung erforderlich! Bitte melden Sie sich unter [email protected] für die Veranstaltung an. Weitere Infos: www.zmo.de/veranstaltun...

In today’s Syria, various groups invoke particular versions of the past to define the nation and/or homeland. What role does the past play in the transition after the regime change in Damascus? An interview with Birgitte Holst by Heike Liebau (@zmo-berlin.bsky.social) 👇 via @dehypotheses.bsky.social

In Zossen, Brandenburg, a war cemetery features an obelisk with Tatar-Muslim names—a remnant of a German prisoners-of-war camp during World War I. Thousands of Kazan Tatar soldiers, caught between three empires, lived there. Leila Almazova writes about this often overlooked chapter in German history

Frédérick Madore (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient @zmo-berlin.bsky.social) and Vincent Hiribarren (King's College @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social) are calling for chapters for a book to come about #DigitalHumanities and #artificialintelligence in #AfricanStudies: distam.hypotheses.org/21726

US President Donald Trump welcomed Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the controversial de facto ruler of oil-rich Saudi Arabia, to the White House on Tuesday. In this DW interview, Ulrike Freitag analyses the visit of MBS to the White House and future prospects of the two countries' relationship.

We are happy to announce and invite you to the second #lecture of our winter colloquium #Disruption & #Survival by Alice von Bieberstein (HU Berlin). More info: www.zmo.de/en/events/te...

Our #bulletin is out! 📰 In this edition, Ahmad Moradi reflects on the need for epistemic #preparedness which does not promise control over the future, but fosters the capacity to live and act meaningfully within #uncertainty. Grab your copy @ZMO or read it online: repositorium.zmo.de/receive/zmo_...

The Red Sea is one of the world’s most enduring arteries of human trafficking. Building off earlier initiatives, this conference aims to consolidate the subfield of Red Sea slavery studies by expanding the scope of inquiry beyond the processes that enslaved people. www.zmo.de/veranstaltun...

📢 ZMO is pleased to announce 1 PhD Position on Traditional Courts and State Law in Central Asia. This is one of 17 fully-funded PhD positions in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network “Sociology of Authoritarian Law. Insights from Central Asia” (SOCIAL-DN). www.zmo.de/fileadmin/Ka...

The Timely Histories Project at ZMO is pleased to announce that it will be conducting the #workshop “Rhythms of Livelihood: Past and Present” in Delhi, India, this week, from November 6 to 8, 2025. In collaboration with the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) in Delhi.

New interview! Stefan B. Kirmse (@zmo-berlin.bsky.social) talked to us about his @erc.europa.eu-funded project, "In Pursuit of ‘Legality’ and ‘Justice’ – Minority Struggles in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union" #JUSTIMINO. Read the interview here: ceureviewofbooks.com/interview/le...

📱Digital Citizen Science and the Co-construction of Omani National and Cultural Identity: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis 📱 Lecture by Najma Al Zidjaly (Sultan Qaboos University, Oman) 📍Tuesday, 11 November at 5 pm at ZMO. No registration is required. Supported by Deutsche Oman Stiftung.

💻 Online-Workshop "Memory in Digital Spaces" ("Islam und Digitalität", #AIWG), u.a. mit M. Gharaibeh (@bit-humboldtuni.bsky.social), C. Günther (@unierfurt.bsky.social), F. G. Marei (@zmo-berlin.bsky.social) & A. Omerika (@goetheuni.bsky.social) 📅 5.–7.11.2025 ℹ️ Ohne Anmeldung - Zugang via QR-Code!

‼️ Time for #TakeOver: @mariamsalehi.bsky.social und @mariaketzmerick.bsky.social berichten vom Workshop #RethinkingViolence der AKs Konflikt- und Gewaltforschung und Internationale Politische Soziologie am @zmo-berlin.bsky.social! Folgt @dvpwkongress.bsky.social & stay tuned!