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The aim of ZMO public relations is to deconstruct the image of
"the other". The Centre rejects the academic and journalistic
culturalization of global conflicts, and makes a point of contributing
to a more discerning view of the "Islamic world" by
offering advice to the media, for example, or providing expert
interview partners. The results of basic research on non-Western
history and culture provide the necessary depth to understand
current affairs, and it is our aim to present them for discussion
to a wider public. Our virtual press folder, which we are happy
to extend to you for your own work, contains texts and photographs
reflecting this intention.
Since 2004 ZMO’s outreach programme, directed by Dr. Sonja Hegasy,
increasingly used art as well as cultural events to disseminate
research results. See for example the photo exhibition “What Do
You Think about the West? Interviews with Young People from the
Arab World” (2005) and “Made in Teheran – Six Women’s Views” (2007,
in collaboration with the Cicero Gallery und Artefakt). In 2008,
ZMO took part in the exhibition “Cairoscape”, which was shown
in the Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien. In 2010, the organizers
of the conference “Under Construction – The Material and Symbolic
Meaning of Architecture and Infrastructure in the Gulf Region”
and Regina Sarreiter organized an accompanying exhibition at ZMO.
In addition, Regina Sarreiter supervised the 2011 exhibition “What
We See. Images, Voices, Representation” in the Museum für Völkerkunde
in Vienna. At the initiative of ZMO, Arsenal – Institut für Film
und Videokunst e.V. and ZMO in September 2011 jointly organized
the Moroccan Film Days “Change and Diversity”, which opened up
perspectives on filmmaking in Morocco over the last ten years.
Contact
Dr. Sonja Hegasy
Email:
Tel.: +49 (0)30-80307-223
Regina Sarreiter
Telefon: +49-(0)30-80307-224
Email:
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