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Female Agency and Colonial Repression: Memory and Archives in Tunisia

By Nora Lafi This article is a shortened version of a MECAM Paper, originally published by the Merian Centre for Advanced Study in the Maghreb (MECAM) and the GIGA Institute in Hamburg, Germany, in 2024. The full version can be accessed here (also available in Arabic and French). Tunis, November…

Breaking Bias: Entry Points for Gender Stereotypes in Judicial Decision-Making

TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research By Beate Streicher As articulated in the Council of Europe’s (CoE) Gender Equality Strategy 2024, while progress has been made, effective gender equality in Europe remains elusive (para. 2). The rise of anti-gender movements in Europe is not only attacking women and LGBTIAQ+ persons…

The Potentialities for Globality in the Tradition of Critical Theory

By Johan Bolding Rasmussen Critical Theory in Global Intellectual History The field of intellectual history is concerned with the development of ideas, particularly focusing on philosophical concepts, as well as their relationships with research fields such as cultural studies and social theory. Global intellectual history is then the emergence of…

Policing the Roma in the Service of Whiteness. Post-Pandemic Reflections from Bulgaria

By Francesco Trupia After the World Health Organisation declared the pandemic outbreak in March 2020, some pundits and scholars touted the SARS-CoV-2 infection as a “great equalizer”. However, minority groups and indigenous people bore the brunt of the epidemiological crisis worldwide [1]. In Bulgaria, state authorities declared a state of…

New Approaches to MENA Prison Literatures After 2011

By Anne-Marie McManus This text is the beginning of the introductionary article by Anne-Marie McManus for the CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture Journal, Vol 25, No 1. (2023). It is part of the special issue “Comparative Approaches to Prison Literatures in the MENA and its Diasporas”, edited by Anne-Marie McManus…

Ghost Writers of Upper Egypt: A Paradigm Shift in Archaeological Knowledge Production

TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research By Wendy Doyon The history of Egyptology is overwhelmingly one of French, English, and German-speaking men. The pages of Who Was Who in Egyptology — a standard reference work for the history of the field, now in its 5th edition — are full of…

Ghost Writers of Upper Egypt: A Paradigm Shift in Archaeological Knowledge Production

By Wendy Doyon The history of Egyptology is overwhelmingly one of French, English, and German-speaking men. The pages of Who Was Who in Egyptology — a standard reference work for the history of the field, now in its 5th edition — are full of well-known archaeologists, such as Auguste Mariette…

“It is Crucial that Courts Uphold the Rights of Individuals” – 5in10 with Beate Streicher

TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research Beate Streicher is a legal professional with extensive experience in international law, human rights, and advocacy. She is currently serving as a legal advisor on international law at Amnesty International Germany. She is skilled in drafting submissions for legislative processes and international monitoring, with…

War Memorials in Russian-Occupied Ukraine

Mischa Gabowitsch and Mykola Homanyuk, Monuments and Territory: War Memorials in Russian-Occupied Ukraine, Central European University Press, 2025. Open Access. By Denys Shatalov The monuments we encounter in a territory tell us not so much about its past as about present ideology. The new study by Mischa Gabowitsch and Mykola…

„Ḥamā lam tamut” (“Hama did not die”) – Remembering the Hama Massacre after the Fall of the Assad Regime

TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research By Anna Christina Scheiter  With the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024, the brutal violence with which the regime had held on to power for 54 years came increasingly and overwhelmingly into the public eye. The Hama massacre in February 1982 is…

Disability, Colonialism, and Global History

By Zoe Wineck and Hunadah Al Hariri Part 1: Global History as an Approach Has Marginalized Disability As a Jewish settler who grew up on Anishinaabe land and a displaced Arab who sought asylum in Europe, who both happened to meet as students of Global History Masters, we found ourselves…

Let Us Imagine a Parallel Universe – 5in10 with Zoya Masoud

Zoya Masoud works at the intersection of postcolonial studies, post-foundational urban theory, and critical heritage studies. As of Autumn 2024, she has taken on the role of postdoctoral researcher within the framework of the ERC-funded project “BEYONDREST,” based at the Forum Transregionale Studien e.V. Her current research initiative is titled…

Akouda 1943: A Voice from the Margins

By Cyrine Kortas Revising History through Fiction Akouda 1943 is the third novel by Tunisian writer Houayda Ben Halima, published in 2017. It is a historical account that connects the personal with the political, and the local and global all set during World War II. The Tunisian epic tale spans…

“Affectueusement, Laila”: Being a Communist “Foreign” Woman in Post-colonial Egypt

By Rim Naguib This text is an excerpt of an article by Rim Naguib that was published in “Gendered Cosmopolitanism in Colonial and Post-Colonial Egypt” (afriche e orienti, Vol 28, no 1.) Read the full article here. On 17 April 1953, Mimi left the cheap room she rented at Hotel…

New Avenues in Global History

TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research By Sebastian Conrad In this moment of rapid political and cultural change, a reassessment of what global history stands for, what it can contribute and where its limits lie is a timely exercise. Global history as a subfield has had a fast and successful…

Akouda 1943: A Voice from the Margins

TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research By Cyrine Kortas Revising History through Fiction Akouda 1943 is the third novel by Tunisian writer Houayda Ben Halima, published in 2017. It is a historical account that connects the personal with the political, and the local and global all set during World War…