"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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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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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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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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Lena Richter
- Mar 30, 2022
- 3 min
Secondment at the Al Jazeera Media Institute
by Lena Richter and Rayane Al-Rammal This last month (mid- February, mid-March 2022) a few ESRs had the chance to do a secondment at the...
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Rayane al-Rammal
- Mar 25, 2022
- 2 min
A Collective Virtual Art Exhibition
To get a deeper understanding of a place we either read about it, visit it, or experience its art. In this virtual art exhibition, we are...
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PS Media
- Mar 15, 2022
- 1 min
Special Issue: JOURNAL OF MUSLIMS IN EUROPE
This special issue deals with the manifold process of authority-making among Muslims in Europe. The authors show that Islamic authority...
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Mohamed El-Moursi
- Mar 14, 2022
- 1 min
"I SEE IT FEELINGLY" - Mohamed El-Moursi's research about ʻAbd Allāh B. Buluggīn
Mohamed El-Moursi works on the memoirs of ʻAbd Allāh B. Buluggīn. Buluggīn’s book ‘al-Tibyān’ documents history of Granada from the...
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Aleeha Ali
- Feb 25, 2022
- 1 min
NEW ARTICLE: Conjuring Karbala Online and Offline - Experiences of the ‘Authentic’ in Shiʾa majalis
We proudly announce the latest article by Aleeha Zahra Ali "Conjuring Karbala Online and Offline - Experiences of the ‘Authentic’ in...
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Eleonora Landucci
- Feb 18, 2022
- 1 min
NET-HNOGRAPHIES: POLITICAL ISLAM IN MOROCCO
Eleonora Landucci works on Hybrid voices of Political Islam: Net-hnographies of Politico-Religious Movements in contemporary Morroco....
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Rukayyah Reichling
- Feb 11, 2022
- 1 min
MECCA FROM PAINTING TO PHOTOGRAPH - How the Dutch captured it with their Cameras
Rukayyah Reichling works on Media and the Hajj. In her MIDA project she focuses on the capturing of Mecca by Dutchmen. Reichling takes a...
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Mustafa Çolak
- Jan 27, 2022
- 1 min
CONSPIRACY THEORIES IN TURKISH SERIES - How does "Payitaht:Abdülhamid" construct conspiracy theories
Mustafa Çolak researches Turkish TV Series. Çolak analyzes how symbols are represented and examines the construction of various...
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PS Media
- Jan 21, 2022
- 1 min
HOW BOOKS BECAME "MANUSCRIPTS"?
Mahdieh Tavakol works on "Books from the library of Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad al-ʿĀmilī (953-1030/1547-1621), from carriers of knowledge to...
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Elaheh Habibi
- Jan 10, 2022
- 1 min
VISUAL BATTLEFIELD: Past Inspirations and Current Revisions of War Photography in Iran
Early Stage Researcher Elaheh Habibi works on War Photography in Iran. Her project title "Visual Battlefield: Past Inspirations and...
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PS Media
- Dec 17, 2021
- 1 min
TRAVELING BOOKS - TRAVELING SCHOLARS: The Journey of Mahdieh Tavakol
Mahdieh Tavakol researches on the library of Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad al-ʿĀmilī (1547-1621). The manuscripts of this collection are spread...
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PS Media
- Dec 2, 2021
- 1 min
FILM RELEASE: MEDIA TRAINING IN DOHA 2021
The Early Stage Researchers of MIDA (Mediating Islam in the Digital Age) participated in the "Data Journalism and Story Telling" Workshop...
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Justin Benavidez
- Nov 24, 2021
- 1 min
A CULTURAL BRIDGE BETWEEN THE ISLAMIC EAST AND WEST
Justin Benavidez works on knowledge transfer between Al-Andalus and Egypt. He focuses on Muhammad al-Qurtubi, who built these bridges of...
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PS Media
- Oct 28, 2021
- 1 min
THE MIDA HALF TIME REVIEW by Prof. Pascal Buresi & Prof. Thijl Sunier
It has been half time of the MIDA. The Team met in Paris, September 2021. The film shows Prof. Pascal Buresi and Prof. Thijl Sunier...
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Zeynep Aydin
- Oct 20, 2021
- 2 min
The Web of Hate - A NEW ARTICLE by Zeynep Aydin
Zeynep Aydin's article "The Web of Hate: Fragmentation of Media Authority and its Link to Right-Wing Populism and Cyber Islamophobia'',...
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Mohamed El-Moursi
- Oct 19, 2021
- 2 min
BRILL INTERVIEW with Suleyman Dost and Shuruq Naguibby, by ESR Mohamed El-Moursi
During his training at BRILL Mohamed El-Moursi made this Interview about "Studying the Qurʾān in a Broader Context: Late Antiquity,...
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PS Media
- Oct 13, 2021
- 1 min
Mohamed El-Moursi, PARIS
Mohamed El-Moursi is an Early Stage Researcher (ESR), working at EHESS in Paris. His research focuses on Kitāb al-Tibyān or The Memoir...
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Rukayyah Reichling
- Sep 14, 2021
- 1 min
NEW PUBLICATION: First documentary about Mecca - how a Dutchman captured moving images of the Hajj
We are happy to announce the most recent publication of Rukayyah Reichling, one of our Early Stage Researchers based in Amsterdam: "A...
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Rukayyah Reichling
- Sep 7, 2021
- 1 min
Congrats Rukayyah - THREE MIN. PITCH at UvA
Condensing a whole doctoral research project into THREE minutes – is that even possible? Yes, it is! Rukayyah Reichling, our Early Stage...
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Hayat Douhan
- Jul 15, 2021
- 1 min
HOW DIGITIZATION IS SHAPING RELIGIOUS PRACTICES
Hayat Douhan works on diasporic Islam among Moroccan Muslims in Germany. Her main question is how the digitization influences the...
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Mustafa Çolak
- Jul 13, 2021
- 2 min
CREATING THE MYTH OF “FOREIGN THREATS” IN TURKISH STATE-SPONSORED TV SERIES
For a decade, TRT (Turkish state broadcaster) has been increasingly producing TV series about Ottoman history. One of the most popular...
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Mustafa Çolak
- Jul 7, 2021
- 1 min
NEW SUPPORT: Machine Learning and Data Processing
MIDA is pleased to announce that we have good news from our Early-Stage Researcher Mustafa Colak's project! Peter Verhaar and Ben...
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PS Media
- Jun 29, 2021
- 2 min
Humboldt Research Fellowship for Amr Ryad
Professor Amr Ryad was selected for the Humboldt Research Fellowship Program for Experienced Researchers. In collaboration with Professor...
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Mustafa Çolak
- Jun 25, 2021
- 2 min
The Turks are coming!
WORKSHOP: The Popular Outreach of Turkish TV Series (6-10 December 2021) "The Turkish dizi (television series) has yielded a highly...
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PS Media
- Jun 18, 2021
- 1 min
Majlis: Online/ Offline Experience
What is the experience of the majlis sermon online and offline? How is it different and similar for both practitioners, & for the...
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Robin Cognée
- May 27, 2021
- 1 min
BOSNIAN MOSQUE ARCHITECTURE
Robin Cognée deals with the architecture and scripture of the Bosnian mosque. For more information about his current research, click...
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Mounir Saifi
- May 19, 2021
- 1 min
AL-ANDALUS ONLINE
ESR Mounir Saifi deals with the discourse of Al-Andalus online. For more information about his current research, click here:...
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Robin Cognée
- May 7, 2021
- 3 min
May 7th Dan džamija/Day of the mosques : 15 pictures to remember
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, May 7th marks "Dan džamija" (the "Day of the mosques"), the annual commemoration of all the mosques destroyed...
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Eleonora Landucci
- Apr 23, 2021
- 1 min
BOOKS4... | 4 Libros 4 Investigador@s 1 Tema
#DíaDelLibro #WorldBookDay
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Robin Cognée
- Apr 22, 2021
- 3 min
THE MIHRĀB IN THE BALKANS : A COMPARATIVE AND ILLUSTRATED STUDY
Since its introduction in the very first decade of the 8th century (during the reconstruction of the Mosque of the Prophet in Medina, by...
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Mohamed El-Moursi
- Apr 9, 2021
- 1 min
BRILL
Mohamed El-Moursi is one of our Early-Stage Researchers from the MIDA project. His research focuses on the character and self-description...
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Kotoz Abdelhafiz
- Mar 23, 2021
- 5 min
On encountering a Corona-ravaged Europe, twice!
Witnessing the empty streets of this unfamiliar country almost felt like an archaeological adventure into the relics of a lost civilization
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PS Media
- Mar 15, 2021
- 1 min
BRAIS - 2021 Online Series
From the 19th of March onwards BRAIS, the British Association of Islamic Studies will organize a series of online sessions with papers...
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Lena Richter
- Jan 27, 2021
- 1 min
New Special Issue out: Religious Transformation in the Middle East
We’re happy to announce the publication of the Special Issue "Religious Transformation in the Middle East - Spirituality, Religious...
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Robin Cognée
- Jan 25, 2021
- 2 min
Bosnian mosques and the challenge(s) of urbanization : a portfolio
One of the important issues adressed in my thesis, entitled « Mosque architecture and scripture in Bosnia and Herzegovina : between...
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Mustafa Çolak
- Dec 21, 2020
- 1 min
Film: ESR 6 Mustafa Colak
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...
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