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12 April 21, 14:30, Thibaud LAVAL : The Spread Of Shiite Islamism In Iraq (1958-1968): Mosques, Libraries And Students [DREAM Seminar]

Jeunes étudiants à la mosquée al-Hâshimî dans le nord de Bagdad en 1964 / Young students at the al-Hashimi mosque in northern Baghdad in 1964

[French below]

In the 9th session of the Dream Seminar “Décentrer les révolutions | Decentring revolutions” we are pleased to welcome Thibaud Laval, PhD candidate in History at the École des Hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS, Paris), for a presentation called “The Spread Of Shiite Islamism In Iraq (1958-1968): Mosques, Libraries And Students”.

The session aims to present how the al-Da’wa al-islâmiyya Party has taken advantage of Shiite religious institutions and celebrations to spread in Iraq, particularly the marja’iyya apparatus, mosques, Islamic libraries, and pilgrimages.

Thibaud LAVAL obtained a master’s degree at the EPHE in contemporary Islamology and history of the Muslim worlds (2016-2018), and then spent time in Iraq – Najaf, between 2018 and 2019 where he taught at the University of Kufa. He is currently preparing a PhD in History at EHESS under the supervision of Sabrina Mervin, whose title is: The call to revolution: the formation of Shiite Islamic organizations in Iraq from 1951 to 1980.

The session, which will be transmitted via Zoom, will be held in French.

Please register at dream@cmb.hu-berlin.de.

We look forward to your participation!


Dans le cadre de la 10ème séance du Dream Seminar “Décentrer les révolutions | Decentring Revolutions”, nous sommes heureux d’accueillir Thibaud Laval, doctorant en Histoire à l’École des Hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS, Paris) pour une présentation nommée “La diffusion de l’islamisme chiite en Iraq (1958-1968) : Les mosquées, les bibliothèques et les étudiants”.

Cette session vise à présenter comment le parti al-Da’wa al-islâmiyya a tiré profit des institutions et célébrations religieuses chiites pour se diffuser en Irak, en particulier le dispositif de la marja’iyya, les mosquées, les bibliothèques islamiques et les pèlerinages. 

Thibaud LAVAL a obtenu un master à l’EPHE en islamologie contemporaine et histoire des mondes musulmans (2016-2018), puis a effectué un séjour en Irak – Najaf, entre 2018 et 2019 où il a enseigné à l’Université de Kufa. Il prépare actuellement un doctorat en histoire à l’EHESS sous la direction de Sabrina Mervin, dont le titre est : L’appel à la révolution : la formation des organisations islamiques chiites en Irak de 1951 à 1980.

La séance, qui sera transmise via Zoom, se déroulera en français. 

Merci de vous inscrire auprès de dream@cmb.hu-berlin.de.

Nous nous réjouissons de votre participation !

Traductions en arabe 2 – L’esprit de la révolte

Veuillez trouver ci-dessous la traduction en arabe d’une nouvelle notice de L’esprit de la révolte:

Alaa Salah. Le 8 avril 2019 dans Apprendre la révolution, p. 254-255.

Traduction de Fathi Ben Haj Yahia. Auteur de plusieurs ouvrages et recueils de textes, Fathi a traduit différents livres et travaux du français vers l’arabe. Responsable de l’édition arabe de l’UNESCO, il est entre autres membre de différents collectifs et associations en Tunisie.

Alaa Salah lors d’une manifestation à Khartoum, au Soudan, le 8 avril 2019. Photo : Lana H. Haroun.

Please find below the Arabic translation of a new entry from The Spirit of Revolt:

Alaa Salah. 8th April 2019 in Learning to revolt, p. 254-255.

Translation by Fathi Ben Haj Yahia. Author of several books and collections of texts, Fathi has translated various books and works from French into Arabic. He is responsible for the Arabic edition of UNESCO and a member of various groups and associations in Tunisia.

29 March 21, 14:30, Waël ALI and Simon DUBOIS : From The Living Room To The Printer. Militant Paths In The Syrian Communist Labour Party [DREAM Seminar]

 


[French below]

In the 9th session of the Dream Seminar “Décentrer les révolutions | Decentring revolutions” we are pleased to welcome the director (“metteur en scène”) Waël Ali  and the sociologist of art Simon Dubois (IFPO, Amman)  with a presentation about militant paths in the Syrian Communist Labour Party 

This session will be an opportunity to present a work in progress to collect an oral history of Syria in the 1980s. The aim is not only to create an archive on a dark period of the Syrian dictatorship but also to reflect on how this type of work can be further developed.

The session which will be transmitted via Zoom, will be held in French.

Please register at dream@cmb.hu-berlin.de.

We look forward to your participation! Continue reading “29 March 21, 14:30, Waël ALI and Simon DUBOIS : From The Living Room To The Printer. Militant Paths In The Syrian Communist Labour Party [DREAM Seminar]”

Traductions en arabe 1 – L’esprit de la révolte

La femme au balai. Alger, le 24 mai 2019 (14e vendredi). Photo : Khadidja Markemal.

Veuillez trouver ci-après les traductions en arabe de deux notices de L’esprit de la révolte:

Le balai dans Changer (son) monde, se changer soi-même, p. 85-89.

Le pain dans Produire un corps politique, p. 147-150.

Traduction de Saïda Charfeddine, journaliste, éditrice et traductrice. Après un long parcours journalistique, elle a travaillé dix ans à l’UNESCO sur la coopération avec le monde arabe. Elle a été ensuite responsable des publications à Sud Editions (Tunisie) et se consacre actuellement à la traduction des essais d’études politiques et sociales.  


Un homme défie les forces de l’ordre sur l’avenue Bourguiba avec une baguette de pain. Tunis, le 14 janvier 2011. D.R.

Please find below the Arabic translations of two entries from The Spirit of Revolt:

The broom in Changing (your) world, changing yourself, p. 85-89.

The bread in Producing a political body, p. 147-150.

Traduction by Saïda Charfeddine, journalist, editor and translator. After a long career in journalism, she worked for ten years at UNESCO on cooperation with the Arab world. She was then in charge of publications at Sud Editions (Tunisia) and is currently working on the translation of political and social studies’ essays. 

8 March 21, 14:30, Naghmeh SOHRABI: Remembering the Palestine Group: Friendship, Global Solidarity, and the Iranian Revolution [DREAM Seminar]

 


[French below]
In the 8th session of the Dream Seminar “Décentrer les révolutions | Decentring revolutions” we are pleased to welcome the historian Naghmeh SOHRABI (Brandeis University) with a presentation on The Palestine Group.

The Palestine Group was a loosely connected collection of young anti-Shah activists some of whom were arrested and tried publically in 1970 for the crime of acting against the Pahlavi monarchy and Iran’s national security. Their plight became global, receiving support from anticolonial figures such as Jean-Paul Sartre. But while they played an important role in inspiring the revolutionary generation, their story has been mostly forgotten. In this talk Naghmeh Sohrabi will retell the story of the Palestine Group by focusing on two facets of their prerevolutionary activism: the importance of a connection to the anti-imperial/colonial struggles that spread from “Asia to Africa”; and the centrality of friendship circle to revolutionary activities.

The session which will be transmitted via Zoom, will be held in English.

Please register at dream@cmb.hu-berlin.de.

We look forward to your participation! Continue reading “8 March 21, 14:30, Naghmeh SOHRABI: Remembering the Palestine Group: Friendship, Global Solidarity, and the Iranian Revolution [DREAM Seminar]”

“Learning to revolt”, Introduction Part II of DREAM Seminar (Monday, 4 January 2021) is now available online

Leyla Dakhli, Project Investigator ERC DREAM (CNRS/Centre
Marc Bloch, Berlin)

“Learning to revolt”

This seminar is a proposal of the research group gathered around the DREAM project. Within the framework of this project, we are looking at revolutions in the Arab Mediterranean world. The aim is to understand how projects and dreams of emancipation are developed in the societies of the region. The ambition is important, perhaps a little excessive, it is based on a genealogical conception of history, inspired by the work of Michel Foucault. Genealogy is not a causalist approach that seeks regressions, origins. We are therefore not looking for a historical cause for the events that have been labelled “Arab revolutions” or “Arab springs” in 2010-2011. Rather, we are looking for clues to elucidate the conditions for the expression and deployment of multiple and multifaceted contestations that took place in the past or continue to exist in the present, or even those that were projected and were not put into action in political forms and may have slipped into other social worlds.
This programme also examines the notion of event in a multidisciplinary way. A privileged – but always complex – territory for historians, the event is here conceived as a territory to be explored, to be unfolded so that it can be elucidated. Tracing the revolt means first of all taking note of the heuristic capacity of the event, which allows it to be brought to light, to be shown. The two years of working together have enabled us to start unfolding a certain number of “moments-events”, and to identify recurrences and figures that can be spotted in this space and that can allow us to enter into comparison. Continue reading ““Learning to revolt”, Introduction Part II of DREAM Seminar (Monday, 4 January 2021) is now available online”

15 February 21, 14:30, Morgan CORRIOU: L’esprit ciné-club” : imaginaires cinéphiles et imaginaires politiques dans la Tunisie de Bourguiba [DREAM Seminar]

[English below]
Lors de la cette 7ème séance du séminaire DREAM “Décentrer les révolutions/ Decentring revolutions”, nous aurons le plaisir d’entendre l’historienne Morgan CORRIOU (Maîtresse de conférences / Université Paris 8) avec une intervention sur “L’esprit ciné-club” : imaginaires cinéphiles et imaginaires politiques dans la Tunisie de Bourguiba”.

La séance qui sera transmis via Zoom se tiendra en français.

Si vous souhaitez y participer, merci de vous inscrire auprès de dream@cmb.hu-berlin.de.

Nous nous réjouissons de votre participation!


At the 7th session of the DREAM Seminar “Decentring revolutions/ Décentrer les révolutions” we will have the pleasure of listening to the historian Morgan CORRIOU (Associate Professor / University of Paris 8) with a talk on “The spirit of the Ciné-Club: Cinematic and political imaginations in Bourguiba’s Tunisia”.


The session which will be transmitted via Zoom, will be held in French.

If you want to join, please register at dream@cmb.hu-berlin.de.

We look forward to your participation!

[ONLINE 25/01/21, 14h30] DREAM-Seminar, Fadi A. BARDAWIL: “Revolution and disenchantment. Arab marxism and the binds of emancipation”

-English below-
Nous avons le plaisir d’accueillir Fadi A. Bardawil (Duke University) qui parlera de sa récente publication actuelle “Revolution and Disenchantment. Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipation”. Dans le livre, Fadi A. Bardawil décrit pour notre époque comment une précedente génération de révolutionnaires, la Nouvelle Gauche arabe des années 1960, a abordé les questions théoriques et pratiques des révolutions.

Cette séances s’inscrit pleinement dans une série d’événements qui se déroulent actuellement dans le cadre de la commémoration du début des révolutions arabes il y a 10 ans.

Le séminaire qui sera transmis via Zoom, se tiendra en anglais.

INSCRIPTION: dream@cmb.hu-berlin.de


We are pleased to welcome Fadi A. Bardawil (Duke University) who will talk about his current publication“Revolution and Disenchantment. Arab Marxism and the Bins of Emancipation”. In the book Fadi A. Bardawil redescribes for our present how an earlier generation of revolutionaries, the 1960s Arab New Left, addressed the question of theory and practice of revolutions. 

This session links in perfectly with a series of events that are currently taking place as part of the commemoration of the beginning of the Arab revolutions 10 years ago.

The seminar, which will be transmitted via Zoom, will be held in English.

REGISTRATION: dream@cmb.hu-berlin.de

Vous trouverez de plus amples informations sur le séminaire ici.

Further information about the seminar can be found here.

[DREAM CONFERENCE] HIRAK AND THAWARA IN THE MAGHREB. 2010-TODAY

JANUARY 26, 2021 / 14h00-19h00 [ONLINE]

A conference on relevant questions concerning the new social protests in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia organized by the ERC DREAM project (Centre Marc Bloch Berlin/ CNRS) in collaboration with NAWARA Berlin, as part of Hur/k حر\ك : Eighteen days of events in commemoration of the revolutions in the North Africa and West Asia region.

PROGRAMME

14h00-15h20 PANEL 1
The historical territories of the revolts?

The panel will question the recurrency of revolts in some regions like the Moroccan Rif, the Algerian Mzab. Can we talk about revolutionary traditions, cultural specificities? What can we learn from these experiments?

With: Soraya el-Kahlaoui, Laurence Dufresne-Aubertin
Discussant Leyla Dakhli

15h30-16h50 PANEL 2
New feminist expressions

These past years have seen the rise of new feminist actions in the region. What can we say about them now and what role did the revolutions play in their birth and development?

With: Saadia Gacem, Zahi Chahrazad, Shams Radhouani Abdi, Ghaliya
Djelloul

Discussant Selima Kebaïli Continue reading “[DREAM CONFERENCE] HIRAK AND THAWARA IN THE MAGHREB. 2010-TODAY”

DREAM at the “Hr/k حر\ك : Eighteen days of events in commemoration of the revolutions in the North Africa and West Asia region”

With the DREAM-Conference “Hirak and thawara in the Maghreb, 2010 – TODAY” which takes place online, on January 26, 2021, from 14h00 – 19h00, we are pleased to contribute to a series of events organised in commemoration of the revolutions of the  North Africa and West Asia region.

These events are organised  by the Non-governmental organisation NAWARA .  Hereafter there are some further information on the idea and the concept of the Hr/k حر\ك .

“2021 marks the 10-year anniversary of the wave of revolutions that erupted across the North Africa West Asia (NAWA) region in late 2010 and early 2011. This presents itself as an opportunity to commemorate the revolutions and a chance to critically reflect on their aftermath, including counter-revolutionary backlashes, waves of displacement and exile, and pervasive forms of state repression.  

Inspired by the course of 18 days in which the Egyptian revolution initially unfolded (from the 25th of January to the 11th of February 2011) and by the diverse forms of expression that the revolutionaries used to communicate their demands, hopes and dreams, Hrk is a series of events that will take place in Berlin on 18 different days throughout 2021 to engage the NAWA diaspora communities in Germany in a range of commemoration activities. The idea is to transcend commemoration beyond fixed dates and places, to trace the afterlives of the revolutions across the NAWA region as a continuum,as a constant flow of movement that does not confine itself to sheer remembering, but attempts to shape new realities.

We aim to depict and highlight continuous ‘movement’ as opposed to the narrative of ‘stagnation’ that is now frequently associated with the so-called failure of the revolutions. We aim to showcase and celebrate the ways in which NAWA revolutionaries and their diverse array of comrades from the region and beyond have continued to engage in various forms of activism, thinking about, narrating and continuing the revolution in imaginative, inventive ways, all while moving across borders and between countries.”

Further information  on the programm of “Hr/k حر\ك : Eighteen days of events in commemoration of the revolutions in the North Africa and West Asia region” will be available on https://www.facebook.com/NawaraBerlin/.

 

 

 

11 janvier 14h30-16h30 DREAM Seminar – Farah Ramzy: “Coming of age in times of change: A revolutionary generation?”

In the 5th session of our DREAM Seminar “Decentring revolutions/Décentrer les révolutions” we welcome the political scientist Farah Ramzy. She is a researcher at the University of Bordeaux interested in the study of social movements, the dynamics of protest, revolutions and political and social change in authoritarian situations, particularly in the Arab world.

The session which will be held in english will be ONLINE via Zoom.

Please write an Email to dream@cmb.hu-berlin.de to get the acces data for the Zoom-meeting.

“L’esprit des révolutions arabes” : entretien Mediapart de Leyla Dakhli, 16 décembre 2020

Après la sortie de L’esprit de la révolte. Archives et actualités des révolutions arabes et à l’occasion des 10 ans des premiers soulèvements arabes, Leyla Dakhli s’est entretenue avec le journaliste Joseph Confavreux en décembre dernier pour le journal Mediapart.

L’anniversaire des révolutions arabes y est un prétexte pour discuter de “l’esprit” de ces dernières dans une histoire toujours en train de se faire à travers diverses figures, mouvements sociaux et symboles dont certains témoignages, certaines traces et archives, constituent la genèse même de l’ouvrage collectif L’esprit de la révolte.

Article réservé aux abonné.e.s sur le site de Mediapart, disponible en accès libre en PDF ici.

Décentrer les révolutions – Decentring Revolutions

Séminaire générale DREAM 2020/2021 (CHS / CMB)

Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer par ceci le lancement (9/11/2020) du séminaire “Décentrer les révolutions / Decentering Revolutions” proposé par l’équipe de recherche du projet DREAM. Le séminaire interdisciplinaire propose une réflexion sur les itinéraires révolutionnaires . Il se penche sur les lieux de l’apprentissage politique, et notamment les lieux qui restent inaperçus dans les travaux, parce que difficiles à saisir par les archives ou peu présents dans les répertoires traditionnels de la protestation et des mobilisations qui privilégient les structures politiques ou syndicales, ou l’espace de la rue et sa gestion policière pour identifier les acteurs révolutionnaires.

Le séminaire proposé par l’ERC DREAM se construit autour de deux volets thématiques:

[1] Une réflexion sur les conséquences biographiques de la contestation, axée sur les mobilisations récentes (à partir de décembre 2010), articulée sur la présentation de travaux récents qui ont pu poser ce type de questions.

[2] Une série de présentations, lectures et discussions sur les espaces d’apprentissage du politique autour de l’université et de l’école, conçues comme une première série d’identifications de lieux dans lesquels se produisent des ruptures et des engagements, ou bien simplement des apprentissages de techniques qui pourront être exploitées ensuite dans les mobilisations.

Le séminaire semi-ouvert est proposé conjointement par le Centre d’histoire sociale des mondes contemporains (CHS), Paris et le Centre Marc Bloch (CMB), Berlin. La discussion qui aura lieu à l’un de ces deux endroits sera également transmise via Zoom. Une participation est possible mais de manière très limitée et dans le respect des règles sanitaires. Des informations spécifiques seront publiées séparément avant chaque événement. Pour obtenir les données d’accès pour les séances, merci de vous inscrire sous dream@cmb.hu-berlin.de. Si vous souhaitez être régulièrement informé des événements et des activités du projet DREAM, veuillez nous écrire un couriel à l’adresse mentionnée ci-dessus.

OUT NOW! L’Esprit de la révolte

Une œuvre collective des membres du projet DREAM sous la direction de Leyla DAKHLI parue au Edition du SEUIL.

L’Esprit de la révolte propose de lire la puissance politique des printemps arabes, leurs répertoires d’actions, les circulations de formes protestataires depuis leurs archives. Traces du temps révolutionnaire, ces documents sont autant de balises pour le futur si l’on prend le temps de les regarder, de les lire, de les écouter.

Dix chercheuses et chercheurs ont engagé une grande collecte : photos, tracts, vidéos, fresques murales, banderoles, chansons, affiches, etc. Chacun de ces objets, témoin d’un moment, d’une figure, d’un type d’action politique, constitue l’ancrage d’une réflexion et d’un récit. Ce cheminement par l’archive permet aussi de relier les expériences et d’en comprendre la persistance ou la disparition.

Avec des contributions d’Amin Allal, Kmar Bendana, Mohamed Slim Ben Youssef, Youssef El Chazli, Elena Chiti, Simon Dubois, Giulia Fabbiano, Samer Frangieh, Mélanie Henry, Loulouwa Al-Rachid.

Bientôt disponible ici le livre en libre accès avec des compléments et des archives supplémentaires.

Policing and Protests: Insights from the Middle-East

Crown Conversation* with Youssef El Chazli
(Junior Research Fellow at the Crown Center for Middle-East Studies, Brandeis University (Massachusetts) and member of the Core-Team of the DREAM-Project)

Crown Conversations 3 (Summary) — The killing of an African-American man, George Floyd, by police in Minneapolis on May 25 triggered a wave of protests and acts of civil disobedience throughout the United States. These protests were accompanied by demonstrations of solidarity across the globe. In this Crown Conversation, we asked three members of the Crown Center research team—Hayal Akarsu, Yazan Doughan, and Youssef El Chazli—to reflect on how their research on related topics in Turkey, Jordan, and Egypt sheds light on aspects of this global moment of mobilization, demand for police reform, and reexamination of racial and social inequalities.

Hayal Akarsu is a Junior Research Fellow.
Yazan Doughan is the Neubauer Junior Research Fellow.
Youssef El Chazli is a Junior Research Fellow.
Naghmeh Sohrabi is the Director for Research and the Charles (Corky) Goodman Professor of Middle East History.
David Siddhartha Patel is the Associate Director for Research.

Please find the Full Text of the conversation (PDF) here.

*Crown Conversations draw on the wealth of regional expertise at the Crown Center in order to focus on recent developments in the Middle East with two goals: to draw attention to aspects of ongoing events that are overlooked in the U.S. news media and to provide insights into the wider regional and global implications of the news.

https://www.brandeis.edu/crown/publications/crown-conversations/index.html