“Healing” hospital graduation ceremony for students of the faculties of medicine at the universities in the Gaza Strip.
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The Palestinian universities and their special relationship with Germany: a lecture series
In Germany, talking about Palestine is subject to hard and fast rules. It is naturally permitted to think aloud (even publicly) about one, two or three future states, and also to clearly speak out against torture, starvation and dehumanizing speech. Yet political and media circles alike almost exclusively recycle familiar concepts, barely touch on new developments, amplify every accusation of antisemitism almost as a reflex, and thus spread the threat of social ostracization. It follows that the self-image of Palestinians in Germany is decidedly ambivalent.
Lectures
- Dr. Peter-Arnold Mumm (LMU Munich, Philology): Taboos and provocations:
The battle over what can be said in its historical context. - Professor Wesam Amr (Gaza University, Communication Studies/ University of Cambridge, Digital Humanities): Media, identity and otherness: A bidirectional analysis of media representations in Germany and Palestine.
- Dr. Sarah El Bulbeisi (LMU Munich, Arabic and Islamic Studies): Taboos and traumas: Palestinians in Germany and Switzerland.
Organized by: Professor Andreas Kaplony (LMU Munich, Arabic and Islamic Studies)
For more information, please visit the website of the Institute for Near and Middle Eastern Studies.