#MECAM Series
L’espace #MECAM sur le TRAFO – Blog pour la recherche transrégionale du Forum Transregionale Studien, organisé en coopération avec la Max Weber Stiftung – Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland, est un débouché permanent pour la communication scientifique de MECAM. Il présente des contributions (essais, articles, interviews, conversations, annonces et rapports d’événements, critiques de livres) liées au thème directeur de MECAM, ainsi qu’à ses cinq IRF et à ses activités académiques.
Par Julius Dihstelhoff et Tomaz Amorim, Publié le 28
Global academic collaboration is a dynamic field, where it is important to deal with inequalities and build connections between institutions from different regions. Recent discussions have shed light on these pivotal issues. Julius Dihstelhoff, Academic Coordinator of the Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM) in Tunis/Tunisia, and Tomaz Amorim, Academic Coordinator of the Maria Sibylla Merian Centre Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America (MECILA), shared their reflections on these issues.
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By Vanessa Barisch. What started out as an underground festival of cultural resistance against Tunisia’s former political regime, has evolved over 15 years into a globally prestigious cultural event in the heart of the historical centre of the country’s capital: The Dream City Festival.
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Cyrine Kortas is a Tunisian postdoctoral fellow at MECAM centre, majored in English literature. She is an associate professor at the Higher Institute of Languages, Gabes, Tunisia and a researcher at the LAD lab unit at the faculty of arts and humanities Sfax. Her research interests include: comparative literature, feminist and gender studies, as well as teaching literature in EFL classrooms.
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By Joshua E. Rigg. In Al-Janub Ya Kibdiyy (The South, My Dear Son; lit. The South, My Liver), Mohamed Bettaieb (b. 1985), offers an alternative vision. His work deals with everyday life in Tunisia’s south – its economy, culture, history and myth. Collected and edited by the journalist and North African correspondent, Bassam Bounenni, the book brings together a selection of Bettaieb’s satirical morality tales, comments on current events, personal memoir and confessions, and literary and philosophical discussions. A review.
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Nessim Znaien is a Junior Professor at the University of Marburg, holding the (Post)colonial Maghreb Chair since April 2022. After studying history in Lyon and Paris, he defended a doctoral thesis at the University of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne in September 2017, entitled “Les raisins de la domination. Histoire sociale de l’alcool dans la Tunisie du Protectorat (1881-1956)”. To complete this thesis, Nessim Znaien was awarded a grant from the Institut de Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain (IRMC), a French research institute based in Tunis (2014-2017). He was also a lecturer at the University of Aix-Marseille (2017-2020). Nessim Znaien is one of the editors of the journal l’Année du Maghreb. He conducts research on the history of material culture in the colonial and post-colonial Maghreb, in particular on the history of food and cereals.
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This interview with Professor Khaled Kchir, aims to unveil the significance of Ibn Khaldûn, whose influence, though profound, is often underestimated today. Professor Kchir sheds light on Ibn Khaldûn’s substantial impact in the past, his current importance, and his relevance as a model for the future.
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Par Imen Louati and Julius Dihstelhoff. Cette anthologie vise à produire une nouvelle approche pour aborder les études régionales au Maghreb. En effet, saisir l’hétérogénéité du Maghreb et sa dynamique est essentiel pour réfléchir aux transformations récentes, non seulement au Maghreb mais dans le monde arabe en général, en particulier en relation avec les soulèvements arabes de 2010-11.
=>TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research of the Forum Transregionale Studien, 2022