Department of Social Sciences
Near and Middle Eastern Studies
Stadtansichten Kairo, Fotobestand der Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Sammlung Sarasin-His, Signatur: UBH NL 232: U:9:3 Brunnen.
In a new episode of the podcast Futures Interrupted, hosted by Falestin Naïli, students report on political projects in Palestine between 1840 and 1948 that remained unimplemented after the end of the Ottoman Empire.
Hosted and introduced by Falestin Naïli Seats are limited. Please register by email: falestin.naili@unibas.ch
BASHIR BASHIR (THE OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL)
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…
public lecture by Dr. Metin Atmaca (Social Sciences University, Ankara)
BETWEEN COLONIALISM & APARTHEID: SOCIAL THEORY AND POLITICAL PRACTICE IN SOUTH AFRICA & ISRAEL/PALESTINE Prof. Ran Greenstein, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Here, Daniel Zisenwine looks at Tunisia under the rule of Ben Ali, from 1987 when he rose to power until the 2011 protests that led to his downfall.
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