Religion, State and Disintegration in the Middle East
The project Striking from the Margins: Religion, State, and Disintegration in the Middle East seeks a nuanced and dynamic understanding of the transformations of religion in relation to those of state and social structures, most specifically in Syria and Iraq, over the past three decades. It works towards conceptual and analytical vocabularies which would be more adequate to the situation than common recourse to culturalist and post-colonialist explanations and lends keen attention to social dynamics, political economy, conjunctural developments and the global setting of comparable developments elsewhere.
Participants:
Harout Akdedian, SFM Post-Doctoral Fellow, hosted at the Central European University
Harith Hasan Al-Qarawee, SFM Post-Doctoral Fellow, hosted at the Central European University
Aziz Al-Azmeh, Professor at the CEU at the Department for History and Director of SFM
Nadia Al-Baghdadi, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study at CEU and Co-Director of SFM
Moderation Gudrun Harrer, Senior Editor, Der Standard; Lecturer on Modern History and Politics of the Middle East, University of Vienna and Diplomatic Academy of Vienna
In cooperation with the Central European University, Budapest