A crisis challenges people, but it can be a chance! Corona hit us hard and unexpected. In March, we still have been convinced that we could simply postpone our cancelled […]

The flights were booked, the researcher team was ready for its third fieldtrip to Tunisia at the end of March. But the given circumstances hold the researchers back. Ilona, Aleks […]

Listening, typing, listening, typing, listening again and correcting what she typed before. Aleks is entirely in her element. After the two successful fieldtrips, each of the three researchers spent in […]

Finally, our team is staffed! Linking the field research and its digital processing, Zsofia joins the TUNOCENT-team at the beginning of autumn. The three field researchers Aleksandra, Ilona and Franziska […]

With positive affirmation on the workstation, the team keeps on with its investigation and categorization: Three different reseachers, five different field trips and hundreds of different recordings needing systematizing. Aleksandra […]

With new energy, improved questionnaires and the researcher team’s reinforcement by a new associate, Franziska, the investigation continues: Aleksandra carries on with her work in the northern governorate of Beja […]

Every two years, scholars from all over the world gather at the conference of the International Association of Arabic Dialectology (Association Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe, AIDA – الرابطة الدولية لدراسة […]

Two and half weeks later, the researchers are back. Healthy but exhausted, Aleks and Ilona share their completely contrastive experiences: while one scientist was suspected of being a spy, the […]