Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient

 

Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) is the only research institution in Germany that deals with the Middle East, Africa, Eurasia, South and Southeast Asia in an interdisciplinary and historically comparative perspective. The focus of research is the interaction of predominantly Muslim societies and their relationships with non-Muslim neighbouring regions.

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Israel-Palestine Dossier

ZMO documents its expertise and contributions on the Israel-Palestine war since October 7, 2023.

New ZMO-Blog

A platform for texts from the first-person perspective around the research process, comments on current topics or other personal text forms.

Solidarity Statement

ZMO Researchers' Statement on Israel and Palestine

Bulletin No. 44, April 2024

Read the latest ZMO Orient Bulletin! ZMO research fellows report about their recent activities such as doing fieldwork, organising lecture series or [...]

Islam West Africa Collection

New collaborative, open-access digital database that currently contains over 5,000 archival documents, newspaper articles, Islamic publications of [...]

Reason is a light which is certainly needed to illuminate the darkness, but it can also be useful in full daylight.

Mohammed Abed al-Jabri

Research

Age and Generation

The global increase in life expectancy brings about the reshaping of relations be- tween the generations. [...]

Environment and Justice

Human-environment re- lations in Asia, Africa and the Middle East are chang- ing at an ever-increasing [...]

Representations of the Past

In times of social crises and upheaval, as well as a lack of utopias and visions for the future, pasts [...]

Contested Religion and Intellectual Culture

How does religiosity interrelate with morality and intellectual culture? The research unit Contested [...]

Cross-Cutting, Exploratory and Supplementary Research

Research in this unit addresses questions of the overall programme and supplements it conceptually and [...]
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Zionism and the Jews of Iraq: A Personal…

21/05/2024, 6:15 pm

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Avi Shlaim

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