Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Berliner Institut für empirische Integrations- und Migrationsforschung (BIM)

Program


Time: 25 November, 16:00–18:00
Place: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Lichthof, Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin

If you are planning to attend, please register at: bimevent@hu-berlin.de
 
16:00–16:30 — Introduction and book presentation with Katharina Galor
16:30–17:30 — Panel with Ahmed, Yassin, Yasmeen and Katharina
17:30–18:00 — Open discussion with the audience

In times marked by genocidal wars, ongoing oppressions and the resurgence of fascism, the question of coexistence has become increasingly fraught. Too often, coexistence is imagined as a fragile peace sustained by division, maintained by the continual drawing and redrawing of borders that separate communities along ethnic, religious, or political lines. This event seeks to move beyond such compartmentalizations of life to explore how acts of solidarity and strategic alliances can emerge precisely in the spaces where these divides are meant to harden.

The evening will open with a reading from Katharina Galor's Out of Gaza: A Tale of Love, Exile, and Friendship. Through reflections on Palestine, Syria and Sudan, the discussion revisits the im/possibilities of alliances under ongoing conditions of violence and oppression. We want to explore how new forms of relationality can rupture the logic of separation and reclaim the political imagination of coexistence and alliances in a global Middle East. In doing so, we hope to explore and reimagine the present and future as a rupture with the past and not a reconfiguration of the current historical injustices that continue to colonize life.

The reading will be followed by a panel discussion with Ahmed Isamaldin,  Dr. Yasmeen Daher and Yassin Swehat, and will be moderated by Naika Foroutan. Together, we will examine how solidaric and strategic alliances can be forged across the global Middle East even, and especially, in times of fragmentation.