Hanan Badr is Professor and Chair for Public Spheres and Inequalities at the Department of Communication, University of Salzburg, Austria. Her work focuses on the interactions between journalism, media, power, and transformation processes, focusing on digitization and globalization. She held positions at Freie Universität Berlin, Cairo University, Gulf University for Sciences and Technology, and Orient-Institut Beirut/Max Weber Foundation. Her work has been published in Digital Journalism, International Communication Gazette, Media and Communication, and Media, War & Conflict. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Communication. She serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Communication, Digital Journalism, and the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication. Her awards include the Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress and the DAAD Scholarship Award. She is elected Chair for Activism, Communication and Social Change at the International Communication Association.
Nahed Samour (Dr.)is a postdoctoral researcher and Core Emerging Investigator at the Integrative Research Institute Law & Society in the Faculty of Law at Humboldt University Berlin. She studied law and Islamic studies at the universities of Bonn, Birzeit/Ramallah, London (SOAS), Berlin (HU), Harvard, and Damascus. She was a doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt/Main. She clerked at the Court of Appeals in Berlin, held a postdoc position at the Eric Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights, Helsinki University, Finland, and was an Early Career Fellow at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Göttingen Institute for Advance Study. She also taught as Junior Faculty at the Harvard Law School Institute for Global Law and Policy from 2014-2018. Her current work focuses on religion, race and gender in law.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
List of Figures 9
1. Arab Berlin - Ambivalent Tales of a City 13
2. On the Need to Shape the Arab Exile Body in Berlin 31
3. Amal, Berlin! Arab media, Berlin-style 55
4. The Arabs of Berlin face generations laden with guilt and trauma 63
5. Hermeneutic Chicanery 83
6. The Arab in the law of Berlin, or: 'How does it feel to be a problem?' 103
7. On framing and de-framing the queer Arab 123
8. "When I got off at Friedrichstraße, I was so happy to be back in East Berlin!" 141
9. Berlin: A City of Indefinite Dreams? 149
10. "We want to deconstruct the radical discourses in society" 157
11. "Berlin has that same inescapable magnetic energy of Cairo!" 163
12. The tastes of Arab Berlin 169
13. Will my son grow up to be sexist? 189
14. Biographies in Motion 197
15. That's how you people do things around here, right?! 217
16. "Traveling for a better world with Alsharq Travels" 225
17. Arendt's Shadow 231
18. "Memories in the Nights of Despair" 239
19. Arabic Sciences in the Humboldtian Cosmos 251
20. asan Tawfq al-Adl (d. 1904) - Arabic Tutor and Author at the Seminar für Orientalische Sprachen in Berlin, 1887-1892 263
21. "In Berlin, I feel free - but COVID-19 made the city feel like a giant prison" 295
22. "We help international academics who have found their way to Germany" 299
23. On the Egyptian-German transfer of medical knowledge 305
24. Beyond Berlin 317
25. "I've seen them grow up. They're almost like my children." 327
Contributors' Biographies 333