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Hashem Al-Ghaili, Ashraf Amin, Ola Elshafei, Mohamed Soliman (from left to right) discuss the development of science fiction in the Arabic-speaking world.

“Science Meets Journalism”
Looking to the future with optimism

(21 September 2021)
Science fiction has been dominated for decades by western influences. A discussion at the “Science Meets Journalism” conference of the Goethe-Institut in Egypt took a closer look at Arabic science fiction.

Latitude – Street in Berlin-Mitte renamed as Anton Wilhelm-Amo-Straße

Anton Wilhelm Amo
A Transnational Memory

Initiatives and researchers in Germany, the USA, the Netherlands and Ghana have joined forces to the “Anton Wilhelm Amo Legacy” to honour Anton Wilhelm Amo. Amo gained his doctorate in the 18th century as the first African philosopher in Europe, and was the first non-white professor to lecture at German universities.

Photo (detail): © Kéré Architecture

Sustainable architecture: the new Goethe-Institut in Dakar
Back to the Future

(05 July 2021)
The Senegalese capital Dakar is the setting for the new Goethe-Institut designed by architect Francis Kéré from Burkina Faso. It embodies architecture as a cultural, societal and climatologically evolved term.