Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies
Recent Submissions
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Syrian Refugees in Mind: Migration - Identity - Narrative - Discourse
(University of Exeter Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, 3 February 2025)This dissertation explores the intricate relationships among identity, sense of self, and refugee discourse through the lens of Syrian refugees’ personal narratives. Drawing on a rich corpus of memoirs published in English ... -
Iran’s last sewn boat? In search of the beach-seining āmele along the Persian Gulf coast of Hormozgan Province, Iran
(University of Zadar, 25 October 2024)Recent ethnographic fieldwork along the Persian Gulf coast of southern Iran by the lead author has located probably the last-known sewn vessel in the country – a disused, beach-seining boat known in Bandari as āmele (عامله) ... -
Bringing back the tribe: Why we should not abandon the study of tribes in the Arab world
(Frontiers Media, 28 October 2024)Once broadly applied, the term “tribe” has been discredited and is now rarely used in the social sciences. Critics argue that the concept is vague, is evocative of primitive and backwards connotations, and has been ... -
Gaza in light of German Holocaust memory culture
(Allegra Lab, 31 October 2023)Looking at the way Holocaust memory culture is constructed in Germany, and to a lesser extent in other Western societies, I argue that German support for the genocide of Palestinians does not happen despite the Holocaust ... -
Insisting on Uniqueness: Shame and Guilt in German Memory Culture and the Denial of Palestinian Perspectives
(Amsterdam University Press, 21 June 2023)This paper examines the affects of shame and guilt that underpin the German Holocaust memory culture, exemplified by the uniqueness thesis, and how this contributes to the denial of Palestinian perspectives in German ...