OUR LIBRARY

Fiker Institute’s Library was born out of a unique vision: to invite writers, readers, artists, researchers, diplomats and policymakers to question their assumptions about world history, global politics and culture in the modern era. Through our interdisciplinary book curation, visitors are encouraged to critically examine and confront western-dominated narratives that have too often been conflated as universal truths. Browsing Fiker Institute’s collections is intended to be a self-reflective act, an intellectual exercise in pushing against existing political and cultural hegemonies that have guided, and continue to guide, knowledge production in international affairs around the world, to this day.

In many ways, we are attempting to contest conventional classifications and geographic associations of scholarly disciplines. Our division of categories attempts to present a more balanced interpretation of politics and culture, both past and present. By giving voice to marginalized issues, peoples and geographies, our library proposes a new and bold proposition – one that intentionally and wilfully casts aside exclusionary lenses about Arabs and the Middle East as a whole.

VISIT US

Location: Warehouse 88, Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai
Email: library@fikerinstitute.org
Working Hours: 9AM to 9PM, closed on Mondays.