#literature

Jan 13, 20231 min read

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 ...

Dec 6, 20221 min read

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...

Nov 16, 20221 min read

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...

Nov 10, 20221 min read

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...

Oct 21, 20221 min read

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...

Jun 14, 20221 min read

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...

May 16, 20221 min read

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...

Dec 17, 20211 min read

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...

Apr 1, 20211 min read

Keynote speaker - Christian Junge

Each week we introduce one of the keynote speakers for the ENIS/MIDA Summer School “Spoken Images of/in Islam,” which takes place from...