Middle East

Autocratization, Emotions and Identity in Saudi Arabia

Last September, Antonia Thies, doctoral candidate in the DFG Research Training Group on 'Sentimentality in Literature, Culture, and Politics' embarked on her second of three field researches to the Gulf, this time to Saudi Arabia. Embedded within the research activities of the Chair of Middle East ...

“The Ukraine War and the Impact on the Middle East” – Lecture by Ross Harrison (Washington)

We cordially invite you to a lecture by Prof. Ross Harrison (Middle East Institute, Washington DC). Prof. Harrison is a renowned expert on US foreign policy in the MENA region. He is a Senior Fellow at the Middle East Institute and also on the faculty in the Political Science department at the Unive...

“Can Civil Society Hold the Democratic Line in Southeast Asia?” – Lecture from Meredith Weiss

We cordially invite you to a lecture by Prof. Meredith Weiss (Professor at State University of New York, SUNY). Meredith Weiss is a renowned expert on Southeast Asian politics. She is currently visiting Professor at the FAU to work with Prof. Bünte on a special issue on Civil Society in Southeast As...

“Revolutionary Utopia in the Middle East as steely romanticism” – Neuer Aufsatz von Christian Thuselt

A new essay by Christian Thuselt, PhD, has been published under the title "Revolutionary Utopia in the Middle East as steely romanticism: the case of the al-Baʿth party". More information can be found at Taylor&Francis Online.

A critical discussion of elitism in Lebanon

After the blast that destroyed last parts of the Lebanese capital in August. Christian Thuselt, Assistant Professor at Erlangen University, on a distorted picture of Lebanon as a place of some obscure elite as opposed to "the people" in the current media discourse, full article available at: https:/...