Swiss Society
for the Middle East
and Islamic Cultures

The SSMEIC provides scientific and journalistic analyses focused on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and the various expressions of Islam worldwide, including in Switzerland. Founded in 1990, it has been a member of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences since 1995.

Mentoring in scientific communication

The SSMEIC offers researchers mentoring in scientific communication and strives to make research output on the Middle East and its connections with Europe accessible to a wider public.

News

Almanach 2023: Editorial

The essay film Scenes of Extraction (صحنه های استخراج) by the Iranian artist Sanaz Sohrabi (*1988) celebrated its world premiere at this year's Berlinale.

A Swiss Doctor Fights Cholera in Ottoman Bosnia

Josef Koetschet, a Swiss physician, was one important figure of the 1866 cholera epidemic in Sarajevo. He contributed to the health of the Ottoman population with the medical knowledge he had gained in Europe and thus played a crucial role…

Open Access Archiving: Mission Accomplished

The open-access archiving of the "Bulletin" and the "Almanach" is now complete. Articles published since 1995 have been assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) and are now easily accessible online through a search engine.

Events

Publications

Conference Report "No Country for Anthropologists?"

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Nr. 48 (Frühling 2019): Alchemie