Lucia Sorbera: A Transnational Journey in Arabic Language and Cultures

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Florian Zemmin: How modernity, secularism, and social theory acquire different meanings across histories and cultures

Florian Zemmin is a German Professor of Islamic Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, where he has taught since 2021. Since October 2023, he has directed the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies. His research explores the intersections of Islam, modernity, religion ...  Show more

هدى العطاس: بين علم الاجتماع والسياسة والأدب والفن

هدى العطاس كاتبة وباحثة يمنية في علم الاجتماع، وأديبة وناشطة في قضايا المرأة وحقوق الإنسان حصلت على الدكتوراة في علم الاجتماع الأدب وتحليل الخطاب من الجامعة اللبنانية. عاشت في عدن منذ ثمانينيات القرن الماضي. قبل انتقالها الى هولندا. عمل أستاذة علم الاجتماع في جامعة عدن. تهتم بقضا ...  Show more

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Lucia Sorbera, "Biography of a Revolution: The Feminist Roots of Human Rights in Egypt" (U of California Press, 2025)
New Books in Middle Eastern Studies

It is not Egypt's 2011 revolution that opened a space for women's and feminist activism, but—as Biography of a Revolution: The Feminist Roots of Human Rights in Egypt (U of California Press, 2025) shows—the long history of women's activism that created the intellectual and politi ...  Show more

Shereen El Feki - Sex and the Citadel
Ideas at the House

As political change sweeps the streets, parliaments and presidential palaces of the Arab world, Shereen El Feki has been looking at the upheaval inside the family home -- specifically, in the bedroom, and the sexual lives of Arab men and women. Sex is entwined in religion and ...

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You Are My Mirror
Ibn 'Arabi Society

Cecilia Twinch read Modern and Medieval Languages at Cambridge University. She has studied Ibn 'Arabi's work for many years and is actively involved with the Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society based in Oxford, being Reviews Editor of the Journal. She has also studied at the Beshara Sch ...  Show more