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Photos: Ait-Ben-Haddou, Morocco. Wolfgang Trimmel, 2012; Amman, Jordan. Jonas Knoblach, 2018; Balıkesir, Alibey Adası, Turkey. Gözde Wepfer, 2021.

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The Program in Near and Middle Eastern Studies belongs to the Department of Social Sciences.

Near and Middle Eastern Studies
Department of Social Sciences
Maiengasse 51
4056 Basel
Switzerland

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29 Oct 2025 / Events

Rethinking the Politics of Palestine/Israel

BASHIR BASHIR (THE OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL)

16 Oct 2025 / News, People

Dr. Burak Sayim’s Dissertation Co-Winner of the 2025 Walter Markov Prize

Dr. Burak Sayim has received the 2025 Walter Markov Prize at the 8th European Congress on World and Global History for his dissertation “Transnational Communist Networks in the Post-WWI Middle East: Anticolonialism, Internationalism and…

01 Apr 2025

Between Empires and Borders: The Kurds in the Middle East

public lecture by Dr. Metin Atmaca (Social Sciences University, Ankara)

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04 Nov 2025 19:30 / Public event

Lesung von Brian K. Barber: No Way but Forward

Am 4. November findet in der Buchhandlung Labyrinth am Nadelberg eine Lesung von Brian K. Barber aus seinem Buch No Way But Forward statt. Das Buch ist eine Reihe von Geschichten – von zutiefst menschlichen Berichten – von drei jungen…

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