Breaking with Orientalist Myths on Despotism and Backwardness | dis:orient
On December 18, 2024, HISDEMAB Fellow Elisabeth Kimmerle defended successfully her PhD at Potsdam University. She was awarded Summa cum Laude. The PhD, “Frauen in Bewegung: migrantische Aushandlungsräume des Politischen zwischen West-Berlin und der Turkey (1961-1990)” was prepared as part of the HISDEMAB programme and supervised by Prof. Frank Bösch and Dr. Hab. Nora Lafi.
Nora Lafi participated today in a round-table on Democracy in Global Political Thought and Theory organized by the Democracy Institute of the Central European University and the Review of Democracy. Video here.
Nora Lafi presents on November 19, 2024 the results of the HISDEMAB research programme at the Central European University (Democracy Institute, Democracy History Work Group)
While in Ghadames (Libya) for the Ghadames Heritage Project, Nora Lafi presented on November 9, 2024, the HISDEMAB book published in Amman to the local Jama’a and offered a copy to its library
Habib Kazdaghli published a tribute to feminist activist Zohra Ouali Ben Sliman (1931-2024) (Leader, Sept. 2024, 160, p.82-84).
The date of the defense of the dissertation in front of the commission will be announced here as soon as it is available
On April 16, 2024, Abdul Hameed El Kayyali, Abdel Qader Amer and Nora Lafi presented the HISDEMAB book published in Jordan in early 2024 on political participation in the Arab World as part of the MECAM’s Event Week n.2 “Imagining Future” in Tunis.
