The state-like significance attributed to DİTİB that manages over 900 Turkish-Sunni mosques in Germany has long been a subject of criticism. However, for hundreds of thousands of Turkish-Sunni community members who had migrated to Germany,…
When Beirut International Airport opened in 1950, its impact turned Lebanon’s capital into an aerocity. This development built on the communication and transport infrastructures Beirut had in its function as the mashriq’s principal global…
Josef Koetschet, a Swiss physician, was one important figure of the 1866 cholera epidemic in Sarajevo. He contributed to the health of the Ottoman population with the medical knowledge he had gained in Europe and thus played a crucial role…
Immer wieder fällt dieser ominöse Verweis auf die islamische Tradition. Doch niemand kann genau sagen, was Tradition eigentlich bedeutet. Worüber wird da eigentlich geredet?
A former colonizer-colonized relationship can evolve if both countries engage in a mutually beneficial cooperation. That’s what happened between Italy and Libya in the late 1950s, in sectors such as banking and oil. The legacy of this…
In the struggle for liberation and dignified work Palestinian youth return to the concept of Resistance Economy. A successful agricultural cooperative in the Palestinian West Bank serves as their model.
Iran’s protest movement “Woman – Life – Liberty” has turned into calls to end the Islamic Republic itself. In seeking new ways forward, some of Iranian civil society are considering returning to monarchy and the constitutional movement of…
In Marokko gab es keine radikale Abkehr vom intellektuellen Erbe der Kolonialzeit. Stattdessen prägte ein kritischer und ambivalenter Annäherungsprozess die postkolonialen Debatten über die «Dekolonisierung» der Soziologie. Das hat auch…