Fellow in Focus | Dr Torsten Wollina

Recorded June 24, 2020. Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND Fellow for
2019-20 Dr Torsten Wollina sat down for a virtual 'in conversation'
with Professor Anna Chahoud (Department of Classics, TCD), to
discuss Arabic manuscripts at Trinity Library and about the
Library’s history more generally, with particular reference to the
digital exhibition "Why were Arabic manuscripts collected in
17th-century Dublin? The early collection of the Library of Trinity
College Dublin“. Torsten Wollina Torsten Wollina has been a
Research Associate at research institutes in Germany and Beirut.
Most recently, he taught Islamic Studies and Middle Eastern History
at Hamburg University. His first book, Twenty Years of Everyday
Life (in German), analyzes a rare 15th-century Arabic diary for the
author’s views on the world, society, and himself. It was published
in 2014. Torsten is engaged in public history, both through his
blog „Damascus Anecdotes“ and as a co-editor of the @Tweeting
Historians Twitter Account Learn more at:
https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/