"A Colonial Gaze on Mecca: Networks Surrounding the First Documentary about the Hajj" #BRILL
Recently Rukayyah Reichling published her research about the first moving pictures about the Hajj and Mecca. #BRILL #hajj #media...
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Elaheh Habibi
- Sep 7
- 2 min
Capturing Change: Iran Through the Photographer's Lens
Venture into the captivating world of my PhD dissertation, where I unravel the stories behind Iran's pivotal photographic moments. This...
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PS Media
- Jun 29
- 2 min
FILM ABOUT THE LIFE OF AL-QURTUBI by Justin M. Benavidez
In this short biopic, Justin M. Benavidez explores the life and writings of al-Qurtubi (‘the Cordoban’). Al-Qurtubi (d. 1273) lived in a...
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Aleeha Ali
- May 15
- 1 min
MIDA Final Conference
In February 2023, we wrapped up the MIDA project with a final conference at KU Leuven, Belgium. Whilst many knots came to a close, some...
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Pascal Buresi
- Mar 23
- 1 min
Mawa'id al-Ajdad (Banquets of Forebears)
The Trauma-Film Collective and Al-Jazeera Documentary are pleased to introduce to you, a six-episode documentary series sketching the...
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Robin Cognée
- Jan 13
- 1 min
MOSQUE ARCHITECTURE - A Walk through the Medina of Tunis, with Robin Cognée
In this film we present the research of ESR Robin Cognée while walking through the old city of Tunis. Cognée compares the Tunisian and ...
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Audrey Debargue
- Jan 9
- 1 min
Final Conference Leuven
Dear all, we are pleased to announce the dates of the ITN-MIDA Final Conference. For 4 years, ESRs, Supervisors, Beneficiaries and...
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Aleeha Ali
- Dec 6, 2022
- 1 min
Grief is a thing to be sung: solace from Shi’a lamentation BY ALEEHA ZAHRA ALI
"A year and a half ago, I learnt what grief was. Before that I had known waves of sadness, despair, depression, heartbreak and anger. But...
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Lena Richter
- Nov 16, 2022
- 1 min
Not Religious in Tunis - Lena Richter about her research on Atheism
NEW FILM RELEASE Lena Richter's research is about non-religious everyday activism in Morocco and the Moroccan diaspora in Europe. Already...
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Rayane al-Rammal
- Nov 10, 2022
- 1 min
NEW Publication: Digital Artivism in Movement: The 2019 Lebanese Uprising’s Art on Instagram
Rayane al-Rammal contributed to the Brill publication The Global Politics of Artistic Engagement: Beyond the Arab Uprisings (edited by...
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Eleonora Landucci
- Oct 21, 2022
- 1 min
REFLECTIONS about Research and Crisis - Eleonora Landucci
Tunis, September 2022 The International Forum for Humanities and Social Science INSANIYYAT took place in Tunis this year. Also MIDA...
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PS Media
- Oct 5, 2022
- 1 min
INVITATION - Farewell Lecture by Thijl Sunier
On Friday the 28th of October at 3.45 p.m. I shall give my valedictory lecture as professor of Islam in European Societies at the Vrije...
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PS Media
- Aug 24, 2022
- 1 min
UPCOMING COURSE: Reading Ethnographically: How Fiction Can Be Used in Anthropology - VU Amsterdam
This course will be rooted in anthropological and sociological theory, whilst encouraging students to bring in literary theory through...
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Lena Richter
- Jul 13, 2022
- 1 min
Policy brief on social media and Morocco’s elections out now!
The Moroccan elections of September 2021 were unusual for various reasons. As electoral campaigning took place under pandemic...
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Audrey Debargue
- Jun 28, 2022
- 2 min
MIDA in the spotlight for the first Masterclass program in Digital Humanities in Indonesia!
Pascal Buresi & ESRs Elmozfar Kotoz Ahmed, Mustafa Oğuzhan Çolak, Rukayyah Reichling and Lena Richter: MIDA in the spotlight for the...
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Justin Benavidez
- Jun 14, 2022
- 1 min
THE TRANSFER OF KNOWLEDGE - Justin Benavidez about the Andalusian Influence in Islamic Tradition
Justin Benavidez works on the transfer of knowledge, in particular from Al-Andalus to the Islamic East. In his research he focus on the...
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Audrey Debargue
- Jun 13, 2022
- 3 min
D–7 ENIS/NISIS - MIDA Summer School Yogyakarta!
The ENIS/NISIS-MIDA Summer School 2022 takes place from Monday 20 June to Friday 24 June 2002 at Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University,...
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PS Media
- May 16, 2022
- 1 min
Hands-on Work with Manuscripts - Mahdieh Tavakol at the Gotha Research Library
As part of my involvement in the project “Mediating Islam in the Digital Age” (MIDA), I spent an internship in the Gotha Research Library...
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Kotoz Abdelhafiz
- May 9, 2022
- 1 min
MODERN ARAB-ORIENTALIST NETWORKS - ESR Elmozafar Abdelhafiz
Elmozafar Abdelhafiz works on orientalism and its modern connections. Find out more about Abdelhafiz' reserach and current projects:...
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Rayane al-Rammal
- Apr 11, 2022
- 1 min
ART, ACTIVISM AND POLITICS - Between Potential and Expectations
Isn't the dissident quality of art intimately related to precisely its capacity to transcend mere political protest? In our...
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