Research Focus

• Social movements and the postcolonial state in Arabic-islamic regions
• Historical and current dynamics of confrontations in Israel/Palestine 
• Political Islam in the Arabic world
• Development politics in crisis and war-zones 
• Emancipatory research methodologies and methods
• Materialist state theories and state in the Global South
• International political economics

Current projects at the Department of Development Studies:

Knowledge Production in Times of Flight and War – Developing Common Grounds for Research in/on Syria (KnowWar) (12/2018-05/2022)

Transforming Knowledge on Transcending Conflict in Syria (KnowWar II) (09/2021-09/2023)

Statements and materials on the war on Gaza

Open letter by Gaza academics and university administrators to the world:
https://www.peace-ed-campaign.org/open-letter-by-gaza-academics-and-university-administrators-to-the-world/

Public lecture series as part of the seminar "Palestine: Occupation, War, and Development Policy" (summer term 2024):

• Lecture 1, 19.03.2024: "Regional War or Containment? Linking the Israeli War on Gaza to the Arab Region" with Rabab El Mahdi, Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, American University Cairo
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• Lecture 2, 30.04.2024: "Genocidal War and Complicity? The War on Gaza and Western Responsibilities" with Francesca Albanese, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories   
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• Lecture 3, 14.05.2024: "Ongoing Nakba? The War on Gaza and its Historic Roots" with Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies, Columbia University
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• Lecture 4, 28.05.2024: "Settler Colonialism and Militarism? The Nakba, Israeli Society and the War on Gaza" with Tom Pessah, Independent scholar, Tel Aviv
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• Lecture 5, 25.06.2024: "Histories of Popular Resistance. Palestinian Feminist Activism and Global Solidarity" with Islah Jad, Associate Professor in Gender, Development and Cultural Studies at Birzeit University, Palestine, and Feminist Activist
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