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Carnet de recherche: Manfred Sing

6.10.2022: I participated at the discussion Podium Zeitgeschichte about the October edition of Vierteljahreshefte für Zeitgeschichte, which dealt with Islam and international politics and probed “new perspectives on the Contemporary History of the Middle East between Cold War and Decolonization”. The focus edition can be found here, the discussion is available here.

6.10.2022: I lectured about Islamic Bioethics at the Max Planck Institut für Ausländisches und Internationales Privatrecht, Hamburg, describing development, characteristics, and challenges. The lecture can be found here.

12.9.2021: I gave an interview to the radio station Deutschlandfunk Kultur about work ethics in Islam. Text and interview can be found here.

My HISDEMAB publications:

Arab Feminism and Islamic History: The Transnational Life and Work of Lebanese-Syrian Writer Widad Sakakini (1913–1991), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2022.

The Politics of Religious Outrage: The Satanic Verses and the Ayatollah’s Licence to Kill“, in: David Nash und Eveline Bouwers (Hg.): Demystifying the Sacred: Blasphemy and Violence from the French Revolution to Today, Berlin: De Gruyter 2022, 247–276.

Arabische Sozialismen. Von antikolonialem Widerstand zu autoritärer Politik, von is­la­mi­scher Selbstvergewisserung zu postkolonialem Protest“. Vierteljahreshefte für Zeitgeschichte Oktoberheft 70, 4 (2022): 779–792.