Welcome at the Pages of the ZMO
The Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) is the
only German research institute devoted to an interdisciplinary
and comparative study of the Middle East, Africa, South and Southeast
Asia from a historical perspective. Current research focuses on
the interaction between predominantly Muslim societies and their
relations with non-Muslim neighbours. ZMO was founded in 1996
as one of six independent, non-profit research centres. Its current
director is Prof. Ulrike Freitag, a Modern Middle East historian.
Call for Applications/Ausschreibungen
Praktikum
in der ZMO-Bibliothek 
Student Research Assistant Required
Call for Papers
Exhibitions
Upcoming Events
Thursday, 18 March 2010, 6 pm, ZMO
Der Begriff „Globale Gerechtigkeit“ bei
Henry Odera Oruka -
Eine afrikanische Perspektive auf ein
brennendes Problem
Lecture by Dr. Anke Graneß, Presentation by Kai Kresse (ZMO)
Wednesday, 24 March 2010, 5.30 pm, Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung.
Schützenstraße 18, 10117 Berlin,
Konferenzsaal
Islam in Kasachstan:
Traditionen und aktuelle Entwicklungstendenzen
Lecture by Sheich Abdsattar Haji Derbissali,
Grand Mufti and Chairman of the Relegious Administration of Muslims of Kazakhstan, and with Moderation by Dr. Dina Wilkowsky (ZMO)
Thursday, 25 March 2010, 6 pm
Cyberspace, Diaspora, and the Public
Sphere: Gender and Eritrean Politics Online
Lecture by Prof. Victoria Bernal, University of California, Irvine, USA
In context of the ZMO-Colloquium New Perspectives on Gender and Globalization
Latest Publications
Marloes Janson (ZMO) and Dorothea Schulz are guest-editors of the Journal for Islamic Studies (vol. 28, 2008) with the focus on Reconfiguring Gender Relations in Muslim Africa.
Ulrike Freitag, Achim von Oppen (eds.)
Translocality - The Study of Globalising Processes from a Southern Perspective 
Studies in Global Social History, Brill, 2010, 452 pp.
a. o. with articles by Katharina Lange (ZMO), Katrin Bromber (ZMO) and Dietrich Reetz (ZMO) |
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Filippo Osella, Benjamin Soares (eds.)
Islam, Politics, Anthropology 
Blackwell Publishers, 2010, 256 p.
a. o. with articles by Kai Kresse (ZMO) and Samuli Schielke (ZMO) |
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Bettina Gräf, Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen (eds.)
The Global Mufti. The Phenomenon of Yusuf al-Qaradawi
Hurst, 2009, 256 S.
Review by Götz Nordbruch in h-soz-u-kult
Review in Aafaq Al-Mustaqbal
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Andrea Fischer-Tahir
Brave men, pretty women? Gender and symbolic violence in Iraqi Kurdish urban society 
EZKS, 2009,
216 S. |
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Marc David Baer
The Dönme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks
Stanford University Press, 2009, 360 S.
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Marcel van der Linden, Prabhu P. Mohapatra (eds.)
Labour Matters Towards Global Histories: Studies in Honour of Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
Tulika, New Delhi, 2009.
a. o. with an essay by Nitin Sinha (ZMO):“Protest and mobilisation: Aspects of workers’ resistance and control” |
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Roman Loimeier
Between Social Skills and Marketable Skills
The Politics of Islamic Education in 20th century Zanzibar
In the series: Islam in Africa, Volumne 10
Brill, Leiden, 2009
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Sarah Jurkiewicz
Al-Jazeera vor Ort
Journalismus als ethische Praxis
In the series: Media and Political Communication - Middle East and Islam, Eds.: Prof. Dr. Kai Hafez, Universität Erfurt, Volumne 18
Frank & Timme Verlag, Berlin 2009, 142 S. |
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Marina Sorbello, Antje Weitzel (eds.)
Cairoscape - Images, Imagination and Imaginary of a Contemporary Mega City
Illustrated catalogue of the exhibition as well as related articles among others by Ulrike Freitag, Sonja Hegasy and Samuli Schielke
argobooks, Berlin, 2009, 250 S.
Press review about Cairoscape
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Mohammed Abed Al-Jabri
Kritik der arabischen Vernunft
Die Einführung
Translated by Vincent von Wroblewsky and Sarah Dornhof, with a preface by Reginald Grünenberg and Sonja Hegasy
Perlen Verlag, Berlin, 2009, 232 S.
extract at perlentaucher.de
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Kai Kresse and Trevor H. J. Marchand
(Guest editors)
Knowledge In Practice: Expertise And The Transmission Of Knowledge
Journal of the Interenational African Insitute, Vol. 79, No. 1 2009, Edinburgh University Press, 2009
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