19. Arabic Sciences in the Humboldtian Cosmos

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. List of Figures 9
4. Introduction
5. 1. Arab Berlin – Ambivalent Tales of a City 13
6. Part 1: Exile, Migration, and Belonging
7. 2. On the Need to Shape the Arab Exile Body in Berlin 31
8. 3. Amal, Berlin! Arab media, Berlin-style 55
9. 4. The Arabs of Berlin face generations laden with guilt and trauma 63
10. 5. Hermeneutic Chicanery 83
11. 6. The Arab in the law of Berlin, or: ‘How does it feel to be a problem?’ 103
12. Part 2: Inclusion, Arts, and Activism
13. 7. On framing and de-framing the queer Arab 123
14. 8. “When I got off at Friedrichstraße, I was so happy to be back in East Berlin!” 141
15. 9. Berlin: A City of Indefinite Dreams? 149
16. 10. “We want to deconstruct the radical discourses in society” 157
17. Part 3: Social Life
18. 11. “Berlin has that same inescapable magnetic energy of Cairo!” 163
19. 12. The tastes of Arab Berlin 169
20. 13. Will my son grow up to be sexist? 189
21. 14. Biographies in Motion 197
22. Part 4: Cultural Life
23. 15. That’s how you people do things around here, right?! 217
24. 16. “Traveling for a better world with Alsharq Travels” 225
25. 17. Arendt’s Shadow 231
26. 18. “Memories in the Nights of Despair” 239
27. Part 5: International Encounters in Education
28. 19. Arabic Sciences in the Humboldtian Cosmos 251
29. 20. Ḥasan Tawfīq al-Adl (d. 1904) – Arabic Tutor and Author at the Seminar für Orientalische Sprachen in Berlin, 1887–1892 263
30. 21. “In Berlin, I feel free – but COVID-19 made the city feel like a giant prison” 295
31. 22. “We help international academics who have found their way to Germany” 299
32. 23. On the Egyptian-German transfer of medical knowledge 305
33. Part 6: Outlook
34. 24. Beyond Berlin 317
35. 25. “I’ve seen them grow up. They’re almost like my children.” 327
36. Appendix
37. Contributors’ Biographies 333