"Islamophobia or Liberty of Expression: How the Image of Islam is Debated on Social Media" Aydin Zeynep works on how we talk about Islam online. More information about Zeynep's research: https://www.itn-mida.org/esr14-zeynep-aydin #itn_mida #islam #socialmedia #h2020 #msca #islamophobia #image #hate

WORKSHOP: The Popular Outreach of Turkish TV Series (6-10 December 2021) "The Turkish dizi (television series) has yielded a highly profitable industry that, under the influence of Turkey’s “authoritarian turn”, has also developed into an effective tool for exerting political soft power at home and in the world. This workshop aims to investigate the socio-political impact of Turkish television series on a national level, as well as its outreach to the international worl

What is the experience of the majlis sermon online and offline? How is it different and similar for both practitioners, & for the ethnographer? Aleeha Ali's research deals with religious rituals and the influence of digitization. For more information, click here #itn_mida #h2020 #MSCA #majlis #islam #anthropology #digitization #offline #ritual #islamicstudies

MIDA celebrates together with the European Union! Explore our events and activities and learn more. Check out the virtual space and try to find the cinema (Photo) in the Commission Headquarters! LINK: https://europeday.europa.eu/index_en Directly to the virtual space: https://discovr-360.eu/europeday2021/ #MSCA #H2020 #itn_mida #europeday

Mohamed El-Moursi is one of our Early-Stage Researchers from the MIDA project. His research focuses on the character and self-description of Abd Allāh B. Buluggīn, the last Zirid ruler of Granada, in his book al-Tibyān. Recently, Mohamed has finished his online secondment with our partner BRILL, a leading academic publishing house in the field of Islamic Studies based in the Netherlands. In the framework of this internship, Mohamed explored different sectors at BRILL, carried

Each week we introduce one of the keynote speakers for the ENIS/MIDA Summer School “Spoken Images of/in Islam,” which takes place from 5-9 July 2021. Christian Junge is a lecturer and researcher in the field of modern Arabic literature and culture at the Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS), Marburg (Germany) since 2015. He studied Comparative Literature and Arabic Studies in Berlin, Paris and Cairo. He is fellow of the Arab German Young Academy, co-director of

Each week we introduce one of the keynote speakers for the ENIS/MIDA Summer School “Spoken Images of/in Islam,” which takes place from 5-9 July 2021. Today we would like to introduce Dr. Carmen Pérez González, Bergische Universität Wuppertal. Pérez González did her doctorate on „A Comparative Visual Analysis of Nineteenth Century Iranian Portrait Photography and Persian Painting“. Recently she was working on Iranian Poems: „Written Images: Poems On Early Iranian Portrait Stud

Each week we introduce one of the keynote speakers for the ENIS/MIDA Summer School “Spoken Images of/in Islam,” which takes place from 5-9 July 2021. Dr. Ali Sonay works at the Institute for Islamic Studies and Modern Oriental Philology at the University of Bern. His research interests are media systems in Morocco, Tunisia and Turkey, Technological change and the societies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA region), Social movements in the MENA region, Modern history o

Each week we introduce one of the keynote speakers for the ENIS/MIDA Summer School “Spoken Images of/in Islam,” which takes place from 5-9 July 2021. Dr. Berfin Emre Cetin is Senior Lecturer in the Communications and Media programme at London College of Communication (LCC). Berfin has completed her PhD at the University of Essex in the Department of Sociology in 2013. Her PhD explored the representation of nationalism and masculinity in a popular long running Turkish TV se

In the next seminar organized by the Amsterdam Centre for Urban History, our ESR Rukayyah Reichling will present us with her ongoing research about Mecca. Drawing on visual material from the late Dutch colonial period, she will in her paper uncover the colonial gaze that was directed towards the most holy city of Islam. When? 18 March 2021 3.30-5 p.m. Where? On ZOOM All are welcome to attend! More information and registration here. #Mecca #hajj #UrbanHistory #HistoricalPhotog

We are happy to present the next keynote speaker for the ENIS/MIDA Summer School “Spoken Images of/in Islam,” Prof. Edhem Eldem (Boğaziçi University and Collège de France). He will give a lecture on “The Ottoman trial with Western images, symbols, and texts.” Edhem Eldem is a professor at the Department of History of Boğaziçi University and holds the International Chair of Turkish and Ottoman History at the Collège de France. He has taught at Berkeley, Harvard, Columbia, EHES

We like to draw your attention to this ACMES Workshop on Zoom, starting today at 12 am. Our ESR Elmozfar Kotoz Abdelhafiz will give a speech about "Digital metadata as a historical source." The workshop´s topic is "Fieldwork and Data Collection in Middle Eastern Studies during a pandemic". Participate and enjoy! #workshop2021 #universityofamsterdam #centreformiddleeasternstudies #itn_mida #digital_age #h2020 #MSCA

This interview was published as part of a podcast series on Standplaats Wereld (www.standplaatswereld.nl), an anthropology blog created by the department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The host of the Standplaats Wereld podcast, Puck de Boer, talks with Aleeha Ali, a PhD candidate and MIDA early career researcher. Their conversation touches upon: - Aleeha's PhD research amongst Shi'a Muslims in Europe, religious practices and digitization

It is with great pleasure and honor that I announce my participation at the Third International Conference on Mosque Architecture (ICMA), which theme is « Mosque : Building Crosses Cultures », due to be held in Sarajevo between the 6th and 9th of September 2021. The conference is organized jointly by the Abdullatif Alfozan Award for Mosque Architecture and the University of Sarajevo. In the scope of the conference, I replied to a call for paper launched in November 2020, and

We say Goodbye to 2020 by presenting you the last MIDA film for this year. Our ESR Mustafa Colak´s presentation about his research topic aims to explain the social, economic, and political dimensions of Ottoman-themed state-sponsored TV series broadcasted by the Turkish state channel. He specifically focused on the two most popular TV serials "Diriliş Ertuğrul" and "Payitaht Abdulhamid." Enjoy the holidays and we will see you in 2021! #summerschool #ottoman #statesponsoredtv

We are happy to announce that our ESR Mounir Saifi participated in a seminar within "Islam in the 'Glocal' Mediterranean. Memory and the Uses of the Past", an online symposium organized by his university, the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), and Fundacion Euroarabe, a foundation dedicated to promoting Euro-Arab cooperation. The objective of the symposium is to facilitate exchange with the scientific community regarding: a) History and memory of Western Mediterranean Is

Interview with Elaheh Habibi, our MIDA Ph.D. fellow about her selected film "About Love on a Small Island" at Athens Ethnographic Film Festival. In this short interview, she talks about her previous work at the University of Manchester, as well as her current Ph.D. research and the difficulty she faced over the global pandemic. This film was awarded as the best student film of the year in anthropology at the American Anthropological Association Annual meeting 2019, as well as

As part of a challenge by the Research Execution Agency of the European Commission, researchers funded by the EU were asked to explain their research in only 15 seconds. The best videos were then chosen and posted under the #MyJobinResearch on Twitter. Watch below Zeynep Aydin´s video on her research titled "The Web of Hate: Charlie Hebdo on Twitter and Its Link to Right-Wing Populism and Cyber Islamophobia". #charliehebdo #cyberislamophobia #itn_mida #wisskomm #IslamAndScien

Workshop: Visual and Material Mediation of Islam in the Digital Age, 4th Congress of Studies on the Middle East and Muslim Worlds- 28-30 June 2021-Aix-en-Provence. Convenor: Ph.D candidate Elaheh Habibi (CNRS, Panthéon-Sorbonne Paris 1) Co-convenor: Ph.D candidate Robin Cognée (University of Sarajevo/INALCO, Paris) Discussant: prof. dr. Thijl Sunier (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam) Those interested in participating in the workshop and presenting a paper should submit a title

We finish this week by presenting you another film! Our ESR Eleonora Landucci was invited to participate at the European Researchers´ Night by the Escuela de Estudios Arabes in Granada (EEA-CSIC). She chose the topic "Anthropology in slippers: doing fieldwork in Morocco... from a computer". In her speech and video she talks about how she tries to overcome the problem of being unable to access the offline fieldwork, and how this has changed her research methodology. English s