Prof. Dr. Esther Möller
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Affiliated scholar
Room: 03-09, Diether-von-Isenburg-Str. 9-11, 55116 Mainz (Besucheranschrift)Phone: +49 6131 39 39486
Fax: +49 6131 39 21050
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Engaging Europe in the Arab World – European missionaries and humanitarianism in the Middle East (1850–1970)
From 2015 to 2018, the IEG was involved in the transnational European network "Engaging Europe in the Arab World - European Missionaries and Humanitarianism in the Middle East, 1850-1970", funded by the Dutch Research Foundation NWO and coordinated at Leiden University (Netherlands).
In Search for a New International Humanitarian Orgainsation: The Egyptian Red Crescent (1882–1956)
Esther Möller's habilitation project deals with the history of humanitarian aid in the Middle East from an Arab and especially Egyptian perspective. Building on archives from Cairo, Geneva, London, Paris and Beirut, it asks about specifically Arab discourses and practices of humanitarian aid in central conflicts of the Middle East in the second half of the 20th century. The habilitation project was completed in 2021.
The Ottoman Red Crescent and Its Relation with The International Red Cross Movement, 1911–1927
The project from Ceren Aygül is searching for the similarities and differences between Non-Western and Western societies in order to understand humanitarianism from a global perspective. The great variety of historical sources on the Ottoman Red Crescent will offer new insights not only into important political and social processes within the Ottoman society, but also on early moments of global internationalism.
The Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement as a humanitarian actor
By analyzing the Red Crescent Societies’ humanitarian engagement in the Middle East and beyond the Research projects opens new perspectives on hitherto neglected figures of humanitarian aid in the 20th Century.