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Ruins have for a long time captured the human imagination and, in one way or another, have been inscribed in a community’s memory, history, or lore. This long-standing tradition concerning ruins – be it real or imagined, ancient or modern ones – has resulted in a multitude of reflections and creative interpretations. The discourse on ruins, steeped in tradition as it is, offers a unique vantage point to reflect upon their actual meaning in various societies and disciplines by focusing on how they have been and still are often (mis)used and employed in contemporary debates as powerful symbols and motifs. Tackling questions related to the genealogies, functions, and interpretations of ruins in literary and artistic, political and legal, philosophical and sociological discourses, this book aims at moving the discussion beyond the level of case studies. The contributors examine the perception of ruins and the discourse on decay, destruction, and reconstruction from various disciplinary perspectives, referring to a multitude of ruin-related concepts such as ‘longing’, ‘memory’, ‘trauma’, and ‘identity’.
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Enass Khansa completed her doctorate at Georgetown University. In 2018, she joined the American University of Beirut’s Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages. In 2019, through an EU-CFI grant, she designed and directed a fellowship for young students from Lebanon, Tunisia, and Jordan, dedicated to building democratic citizenship in the Arab world through the media. Prior to moving to Beirut, she was the recipient of the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship (2017), and a fellowship in the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Art and Architecture (2016), both at Harvard University. Enass was also the special advisor to the President of Atlantic Media, and held a diplomatic post in Washington, D. C. from 2007 until her resignation in 2011. She is an editor at the Library of Arabic Literature (LAL) at NYU-Abu Dhabi, and has been a member of the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) since 2019. Konstantin Klein received his doctorate in ancient history from the University of Oxford in 2016 and has been a visiting fellow at Harvard University and a visiting junior research fellow at the British School of Archaeology in East-Jerusalem (Kenyon Institute). Since 2011, he has worked as a lecturer at the department of Ancient History at the University of Bamberg. The main focus of his work is on the cultural history of the Near East in Graeco-Roman times, especially in Late Antiquity. He is currently editing a new corpus of Aramaic inscriptions from Palmyra and finishing a monograph on Jerusalem from the third to the mid-sixth century. Since 2018, Konstantin has served as a member of the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA). Barbara Winckler is a senior lecturer at the Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Münster. Her research interests cover modern and contemporary Arabic fiction and arts (particularly war and post-war discourses in Lebanon), Arabic periodicals of the Nahḍah period, and recent developments in Arabic studies as an academic discipline. She has published two books, Grenzgänge: Androgynie – Wahnsinn – Utopie im Romanwerk von HudāBarakāt (2014) and الدراسات العربية وانتفاضات الربيع العرب ي (2019; co-authored), and co-edited several volumes and special issues, including Arabic Literature – Postmodern Perspectives (2010), The Humanities in the 21st Century: Perspectives from the Arab World and Germany (2021; English/Arabic), and Media Transitions and Cultural Debates in Arab Societies (special issue MEJCC, forthcoming Jan. 2022). Barbara is the co-director of the international summer school program “Arabische Philologien im Blickwechsel / نحو دراسات عربية برؤى متعدّدة ” (arabic-philologies.de) and an alumna of the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA).
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