Germans talking about Palestine – Palestinians talking about Germany

Palestinian Universities and Their Special Relationship with Germany: A Lecture Series

In Germany, discussions about Palestine are subject to strict rules. While it is, of course, permissible to consider (even publicly) the possibility of one, two, or three future states, and likewise to condemn torture, starvation, and dehumanizing rhetoric in no uncertain terms, But politics and the media almost exclusively repeat what is already well-known, barely take in anything new, reflexively spread every accusation of anti-Semitism, and thus threaten social ostracism. Consequently, the self-image of Palestinians in Germany is ambivalent.

Presentations

• PD Dr. Peter-Arnold Mumm (LMU Munich, Linguistics): Taboo and Provocation: The Struggle Over What Can Be Said from a Historical Perspective.
• Prof. Dr. Wesam Amr (Gaza University, Communication Studies / University of Cambridge, Digital Humanities): Media, Identity, and Otherness: A Bidirectional Analysis of Media Representations in Germany and Palestine.
• Dr. Sarah El Bulbeisi (LMU Munich, Arabic and Islamic Studies): Taboo and Trauma: Palestinians in Germany and Switzerland.

Organizer: Prof. Dr. Andreas Kaplony (LMU Munich, Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies)