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Berlin through Arab-Ottoman Eyes in the Wake of Defeat KU Leuven
In this paper, I will study the unpublished diaries of Zeki Hishmat Bey Kirām (1886–1946), an Ottoman-Arab officer and commander of the Bedouin troops in Sinai during WWI, who had ended up in Berlin after he was injured by British fire in 1916. His ego-documents paint a vivid picture of daily life in the German capital in the last years of the war and the early post-war period. The handwritten diaries in my possession, which Kirām to a large ...
From the Dreyfus Affair to Zionism in Palestine: Rashid Riḍā’s Views of Jews in Relation to the ‘Christian’ Colonial West KU Leuven
The ideas of the well-known reformist Sheikh Muḥammad Rashīd Riḍā (1865–1935) in his journal Al-Manār (Lighthouse, 1898–1935) still inspire many academic researchers who are interested in the study of the Muslim world in the first decades of the twentieth century. As one of the most influential advocates of Arab nationalism and pan-Islamism, Riḍā’s critiques of Zionism and Jewish expansion in Palestine were part of his anti-colonial activities ...