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In this new episode of the "Dialogues" section of the Radio Marc Bloch podcast series, Nazan Maksudyan, historian, senior researcher at the Centre Marc Bloch and visiting professor at the Free University of Berlin, talks to Joseph Ben Prestel about his current research project, which analyzes the rise and fall of Palestinian solidarity movement in West Germany between the 1950s and 1980s. Author of a recent article on the topic, "A Diaspora Moment: Writing Global History Through Palestinian-West German Ties," Joseph Ben Prestel explains the changing trajectories of solidarity movements within a global historical framework and in particular in dialog with Palestinian migration to West Germany.

Joseph Ben Prestel is an Assistant Professor of History at the Freie Universität Berlin. He received his PhD from the same institution in April 2015. Before joining Freie Universität’s history department, he held a position at the Center for the History of Emotions within Berlin’s Max Planck Institute for Human Development. He has received fellowships from the Max Planck Society, the American University in Cairo, the University of Cambridge, and the Orient Institut Beirut. During the academic year 2018-19, he was a Fung Global Fellow at Princeton University. Prestel’s research and teaching focus on modern global and urban history with an emphasis on the entangled history of Europe and the Middle East. His first book Emotional Cities: Debates on Urban Change in Berlin and Cairo, 1860-1910 (Oxford UP, 2017) examines the parallel rise of arguments about specifically urban emotions in Berlin and Cairo during the second half of the nineteenth century. The book is the co-winner of the Urban History Assocation's Best Book in Non-North American History Award, 2017-18. An Arabic translation was published, in 2023. He is a co-founder of the Global Urban History Project and a co-editor of the new Cambridge Elements in Global Urban History. His work has also appeared in publications like Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Merkur, and Berlin Review.

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