Why Are We Here Now?
2017, Sep 15 — Oct 7
How can the past be inscribed into the present not as a relict, but as lived experience “here and now”? Adania Shibli, Mohammad Al Attar, and Rabih Mroué investigate key discourses that have underlined political, social and cultural transformations over the past century in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean.
Audio – 0:21:22
Samuel Merrill: Ghost Stations (German)
Lecture, Sep 15, 2017 German translation
Video – 0:21:28
Samuel Merrill: Ghost Stations
Lecture, Sep 15, 2017 Original version
Video – 0:28:00
Zeynep Çelik: The Hijaz Railway: Empire and Modernity
Presentation, Sep 15, 2017 Original version
Video – 0:23:47
Salim Tamari: Could the Archives Lie? The Disappeared Train
Presentation, Sep 15, 2017 Original version
Video – 0:21:30
Along the Rails with Travelers without Papers | Shahram Khosravi
Lecture, Oct 15, 2017 Original version