Berlin Calling (again and again and again)
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Berlin Calling (again and again and again)

ByDr. Marwa Shumo

[aesop_quote type=”block” background=”#008040″ text=”#ffffff” align=”left” size=”1″ quote=”“Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”~Mahatma Gandhi” parallax=”off” direction=”left” revealfx=”off”] I would like to live my life to the fullest. I would like to be able to look back and say: been there, seen that and done this than…

A summer full of new ventures
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A summer full of new ventures

ByDr. Marwa Shumo

[aesop_quote type=”block” background=”#282828″ text=”#ffffff” align=”left” size=”1″ quote=”The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. ~Eleanor Roosevelt” parallax=”off” direction=”left” revealfx=”off”] Here is a retrospect to what happened after our Swahili doodles workshop just in case you…

Marwa & the Fellas week in Petershagen
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Marwa & the Fellas week in Petershagen

ByDr. Marwa Shumo

Towards the upper most region of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, we decided to travel all the way from Bonn to approximately 10 kilometres northeast of Minden and precisely to the little town of Petershagen on the banks of the River Weser. The trip from Bonn to Petershagen lasted for around 6 hours, the journey started…

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Summary: An Uneducation in the Release of the Unexpected

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Talk by ZEF-Senior Researcher Epifania Amoo-Adare about an explanatory guide that discusses post-disciplinary perspectives for (un)thinking current modes of research. Epifania Amoo-Adare has been following a figuration of processes related to knowledge generation and unlearning, since she joined the research project Crossroads Asia in 2013. Amoo-Adare’s journey has been, in her words, both systematic and…

Arts as a common language – a workshop with Saleh al Shukairi
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Arts as a common language – a workshop with Saleh al Shukairi

ByDr. Marwa Shumo

ZEF was our venue, an international intercultural hub in Bonn. The German Omani Association, Arabia Felix GmbH and the Embassy of Oman were our main donors, IHV Bonn were our partners, Saleh al Shukairi was our guest and the language we had in common was ARTS. My friend Hind and I thought of turning our…