June 21, 2022

19:00 Keynote Lecture
Introduction: Michael Brenner (LMU München)

Norman Stillman (Jerusalem/University of Oklahoma): Prelude to Exodus: The Transformation of the Jews of the Islamic World in Modern Times

20:30 Reception

June 22, 2022

09:00 Panel I: Jewish-Muslim Relations inithin the First Half of the Twentieth Century

Chair: Philipp Lenhard (LMU München)

Menashe Anzi (Ben Gurion University): Relations between Muslims and Jews in Sanaa: Between the Muslim Court and the Jewish Court

Michelle Campos (Pennsylvania State University): Partners, Friends, and Neighbors? Jewish-Muslim Social Networks in Late Ottoman Palestine between Empiricism and Nostalgia

Alon Tam (UCLA): Coffeehouse Al-Sharq: Jews, Muslims, and Public Places in mid-20th Century Cairo

10:45 Coffee Break

11:15 Panel II: International Networks

Chair: Ronny Vollandt (LMU München)

Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah (University of Groningen): From Alexandria with Love: Middle Eastern Jewry as Donors within Transnational Philanthropic Networks

Lior Sternfeld (Pennsylvania State University): Waiting to be Rescued? The Condition of the Jews of Iran in Western Eyes before and after the 1979 Revolution.

12:30 Lunch Break

14:00 Panel III: History and Memory

Chair: Yossef Schwartz (Tel Aviv University/LMU München)

Orit Bashkin (University of Chicago): The Silenced Voices of Sa'ida – Memories of the Gendered Left in Iraq

Aomar Boum (UCLA): Re-Discovering Jews: Non-Academic Historians Write Local Jewish Histories (Morocco)

15:00 Book Reading and Discussion with Author

Mona Yahia (Köln): When the Grey Beetles Took Over Baghdad
Chair and Conclusion: Daniel Mahla (LMU München)

16:00 End of Conference