Report on the Inaugural Conference “Relations in the Ideoscape: Middle Eastern Students in the Eastern Bloc 1950-1991”

By Ala Al-Hamarneh The inaugural conference of the research project “Relations in the Ideoscape: Middle Eastern Students in the Eastern Bloc, 1950-1991” took place at the Orient-Institute Beirut on the 19th and 20th of May 2019. The two-day conference in the form of a workshop was the first meeting of the international research team following the official commencement of the research project in March 2019. Scholars from Germany, Azerbaijan, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Iran, Leban..