10.17192/meta.2018.11.7941 Milich, Stephan Stephan Milich Moghnieh, Lamia Lamia Moghnieh Trauma: Social Realities and Cultural Texts Middle East - Topics + Arguments : Vol 11 (2018) Philipps-Universität Marburg 2018 Power Structures Interdisciplinary Research Field Trauma Politics MENA Trauma PTSD Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS) 2018-11-27 2018-11-13 en JournalArticle https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/2018/229/7941 urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0003-2018-229-79411 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/2018/229/7941/7941.png 2196-629X application/pdf https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This special issue aims to contribute to a deeper and critical understanding of trauma in the societies, cultures, and histories of the Middle East and North Africa. The collection of essays brings together perspectives from the social sciences, humanities and literary studies, not least by exploring the narrativization of suffering, its performative and its non-verbal expression both in social reality and cultural production. In presenting explorations of literary texts, theatre, social realities and theoretical reflection, we hope to contribute to a more comprehensive, nuanced and inclusive view on trauma and memory production both as a cultural and social materiality and as a political formation. The diverse array of different approaches, topics, and disciplines expresses our concern to include and map the diversity and multiplicity of current trauma studies research related to the MENA. 2196-629X Middle East - Topics + Arguments Vol 11 (2018)