Academia in transformation : : scholars facing the Arab uprisings / / Florian Kohstall [and three others], [eds.].

Popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have had a deep impact, not only on the societies and political structures in the respective countries there, but also on different academic disciplines. The events that started in 2010 in Tunisia have altered academic terminology, contrib...

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Place / Publishing House:Baden-Baden, Germany : : Nomos,, [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (224 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • A note from the editors / Florian Kohstall, Carola Richter, Sarhan Dhouib and Fatima Kastner
  • Introduction: Academia in transformation : testing the paradigms of new knowledge / Amal Grami
  • Middle East studies and academic cooperation in the wake of the Arab uprisings / Florian Kohstall
  • Political science in Egypt: talkin' bout a revolution / Jan Claudius Völkel
  • Opening up the text: Arabic literary studies on the move / Barbara Winckler and Christian Junge
  • An uprising in teaching Arabic language / Bilal Orfali, Rana Siblini and Maha Houssami
  • Justice in transformation: rethinking theory and practice of the global transitional justice model / Fatima Kastner
  • Philosophy in transition : philosophy of transition / Sarhan Dhouib
  • Communication studies in transformation : self-reflections on an evolving discipline in times of change / Carola Richter and Hanan Badr
  • Webs of change? The transformation of online social networks and communication infrastructures from a technological point of view / Tobias Amft and Kalman Graffi
  • The damage done: the "Arab Spring", cultural heritage and archaeologists at risk / Ammar Abdulrahman
  • Transformations and continuities. Some general reflections / Hans Jörg Sandkühler.