Nuha Al-Shaar

AGYA has provided me with an intellectual family and friendships with talented individuals. It is a wonderful platform for exploring ideas and innovative interdisciplinary projects. 

From 2014 to 2019, I was a member of the Working Group on Common Heritage and the Working Group on Education. Together with fellow AGYA members, I organized a number of interdisciplinary events, like a 2018 workshop in Morocco on ‘Gender Equality in the Arab World and Germany: Challenges and Perspectives’; a 2018 panel discussion in Tunisia entitled ‘Teaching Literature at the Higher Education Level: The Scientific Mind and Experimental Pedagogies’; a 2018 conference on ‘Storytelling, Travel Writing, and Seafaring from Cross-cultural Perspectives’; and a 2019 conference in Italy on ‘Discovering Common Roots: Sicily and the Mediterranean – A History of Pluralistic Traditions.’ 

Now, as proud AGYA alumna, I remain actively involved in editing a collection of papers from a 2017 AGYA Tandem Project on ‘Sicily and Its Pluralistic Traditions’; editing a book on ‘Travel Writing and Storytelling Across Cultures’ with fellow AGYA member Beate Ulrike La Sala; and working with Barbara Winckler, Beate Ulrike La Sala, and Jenny Oesterle-El Nabbout to produce a contribution to the Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien’s book series titled ‘Areas and Disciplines’.