Berlin is increasingly emerging as a hub of Arab intellectual life in Europe. In this first study of Arab culture to zoom in on the thriving metropolis, the contributors shed light on the dynamics of transformation with Arabs as agents, subjects, and objects of change in the spheres of politics, society and history, gender, demographics and migration, media and culture, and education and research. The kaleidoscopic character of the collection, embracing academic articles, essays, interviews and photos, reflects critical encounters in Berlin. It brings together authors from inter- and multidisciplinary fields and backgrounds and invites the readers into a much-needed conversation on contemporary transformations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1. Arab Berlin \u2013 Ambivalent Tales of a City<\/p>\n\n\n\n Part 1: Exile, Migration, and Belonging<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. On the Need to Shape the Arab Exile Body in Berlin<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. Amal, Berlin! Arab media, Berlin-style<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. The Arabs of Berlin face generations laden with guilt and trauma<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5. Hermeneutic Chicanery<\/p>\n\n\n\n 6. The Arab in the law of Berlin, or: ‘How does it feel to be a problem?’<\/p>\n\n\n\n Part 2: Inclusion, Arts, and Activism<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 7. On framing and de-framing the queer Arab<\/p>\n\n\n\n 8. “When I got off at Friedrichstra\u00dfe, I was so happy to be back in East Berlin!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n 9. Berlin: A City of Indefinite Dreams?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 10. “We want to deconstruct the radical discourses in society”<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Part 3: Social Life<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 11. “Berlin has that same inescapable magnetic energy of Cairo!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n 12. The tastes of Arab Berlin<\/p>\n\n\n\n 13. Will my son grow up to be sexist?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 14. Biographies in Motion<\/p>\n\n\n\n