By Fatemeh Shams August 2024 marked the third anniversary of the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban, after twenty years of US-led military occupation. As they retook control of the country on 15 August 2021, a new ban was imposed on girls’ education, preventing millions from attending school beyond sixth…
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By Olena Komar In this article, I aim to demonstrate that a set of prejudices exists in Western countries against Ukrainians, which I term the “Angry Ukrainian Syndrome” (similar to the “North African Syndrome”). This is a set of biases that have emerged through the way Ukrainians communicate about the…
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Wendy Pearlman is Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University where she specializes in Middle East politics, social movements, and narrative approaches to understanding conflict and displacement. Wendy earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University, an MA from Georgetown University, and a BA from Brown University. She has studied and conducted research in Spain, Morocco,…
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By Dr Ruji Auethavornpipat This is a repost with kind permission of the author and the Australian Institute of International Affairs, in which the article was originally published on July 11, 2024. The European Commission’s Rule of Law Report, while assessing EU member states’ adherence to key rule of law…
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By Cyrine Kortas Have you ever heard about a woman who would tell you that she made love because she wanted it? […] Almost half of Tunisian women were brought up in a complete denial of their bodies (Hysteria, p.122-123) Through these rhetorical questions posed by her fictional character Nadia,…
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By Nihakira Srivastava Arjun scrolled mindlessly through social media feeds on his brand-new smartphone, liking memes and watching viral videos as he lounged in his air-conditioned bedroom. His parents had just upgraded his device, ensuring he always had the latest model with unlimited data. Just a few kilometers away, Raju…
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Tommaso Virgili is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Migration, Integration, Transnationalization Department of the WZB Berlin Social Science Center and a Research Associate at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies in Brussels. At the WZB, he works on Islamism and liberal Islam in connection with individual rights, with…
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By Colleen Boland This article is a shortened version of the re:constitution working paper, which was originally published by the Forum Transregionale Studien in 2023 and can be read here. Colleen Boland Europe faces increasing patterns of crimmigration, or the merging of criminal and migration law, discourse and practices. From…
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By Özlem Şendeniz and Elif E. Akşit Photo by Özlem Şendeniz Could the COVID-19 crisis, which we currently perceive as something that belongs to the past, be an opportunity to go beyond anthropocentric thinking? Can narratives about new forms of community that complement our physical existence be constructed with animals…
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Diana Abbani in Conversation with André Weißenfels André Weißenfels André Weißenfels is a researcher focusing on the political economy of West Asia and North Africa as well as community decision-making processes, and “the social.” He has worked as a research associate at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University…
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Event organised by the Central Eastern and South Eastern Europe Project Group of the German Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung) By Martin Lochthofen Little is known in Germany about the Krym and the decade-long resistance of the local population against Russian and Soviet rule, including the…
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By Théo Fournier This article is a shortened version of the re:constitution working paper, which was originally published by the Forum Transregionale Studien in 2023 and can be read here. Théo Fournier How does a constitution resist the passage of time? How does a legal and constitutional framework remain legitimate…
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TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research Diana Abbani in conversation with Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop ELIZABETH BISHOP is Associate Professor of History at Texas State University-San Marcos. Her research interests include the modern Arab world, media, and material history. Coeditor of Imperialism on Trial (2006), she is also the author…
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C. Ceyhun Arslan is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Koç University and Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Forum Transregionale Studien and Saarland University. His works have appeared or are forthcoming in journals and edited volumes such as Journal of Arabic Literature; The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry; Middle…
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By Catherine Warin This article is a shortened version of the re:constitution working paper, which was originally published by the Forum Transregionale Studien in 2023 and can be read here. Catherine Warin. Photo by Johanna Scheffel. Introduction I was a PhD student when I started volunteering at an accommodation centre…
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By Himmat Zoubi In recent decades, critical intellectual trends have achieved significant breakthroughs in analyzing the relationship between power and knowledge, as well as in analyzing the dynamics between dominant and marginalized groups. These trends have led to profound debates about the production of history, emphasizing the need to consider…
