Deconstructing racist stereotypes about “the others” in German-speaking discourses

Prof. Hanan Badr, Head of the Communication Theory and the Public Sphere Unit at the Department of Communication Studies would like to invite you to a guest lecture and book discussion with the journalist and author Mohamed Amjahid on 30 November 2022. Amjahid writes for Die Zeit and Tagesspiegel, among other titles. He writes for the taz column “Die Nafrichten”. He has also written the Spiegel bestsellers “Unter Weißen” and “Der weiße Fleck”. Amjahid will be presenting his latest book “Let’s Talk about Sex, Habibi” in Salzburg. The lecture will be held in English.

November 30, 2022 | 7:00 p.m. | Unipark Nonntal, Room 1.006 | Erzabt-Klotz-Straße 1

From the erotic adventures of “Thousand and One Nights” to the debates after the Cologne New Year’s Eve: The sexuality of “oriental” men, women and queers is fetishized again and again. In this book, Mohamed Amjahid wants to take a look into the bedrooms of North Africa and clear up clichés and racist stereotypes. Based on his own experiences and those of his friends and relatives, he tells us in a touching, funny, intimate and honest way what the everyday sexuality of North Africans is really like and what longings lie behind it.

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