Current Fellows
Current Fellows
The Fellows of the Forum’s programs are affiliated with universities and research institutions in Berlin and elsewhere in Germany. They come from a wide range of regional and disciplinary backgrounds. Most commonly, they spend one academic year collaborating with researchers in and outside of Berlin on individual projects and joint initiatives. You will find corresponding calls for fellowships on the program pages or under “Calls for applications” in due course.
2026/ 2027
Rawia Aburabia
“Exiting from Within”: Navigating Shari’a Courts and the Right to Exit in Non-Liberal Communities
2026/ 2027
2026/ 2027
2026/ 2027
Shir Alon
Governing the Future: Fictions of Security in the Neoliberal Middle East, 1990-2020
2026/ 2027
2026/ 2027
Daniel Behar
The Shudder Remains: Voice, Body, and Affect in Contemporary Palestinian Poetry
2026/ 2027
Reut Ben Yaakov
‘Your Map Is Imprinted Upon My Insides’: Spanish Landscapes and Retrieved Sepharad in Hebrew Literature
2026/ 2027
2026/ 2027
Dorjana Bojanovska Popovska
Religion in Times of Illiberal Transnationalism: European Regional Institutions as Sites of Contestation
2026/ 2027
Saba Brachveli
Fast-Track Authoritarianism - The Legislative Path of Democratic Erosion in Georgia (2023–2026)
2026/ 2027
Volha Davydzik
Criminalizing Participation: Digital Authoritarianism After Mass Mobilization (Cases of Belarus and Georgia)
2026/ 2027
Wendy Doyon
Ghost Writers of Upper Egypt: Arabic Archaeological Diaries and Archives in Translation
2026/ 2027
Nada El-Kouny
An Egyptian Village between two Revolutions: From Socialist Foundation to a Declaration of Independence
2026/ 2027
2026/ 2027
2026/ 2027
Margherita Gobbat
Affective Polarization among Moldovan Youth: Do Young People Reproduce or Transcend ‘Pro EU versus Pro Russia’ Divisions?
2026/ 2027
Ancuța Hansen
Drawing the Line: Distinguishing Assistance, Influence, and Interference in European Elections
2026/ 2027
Ilay Izmir
Subnational Bulwarks: State Parliaments, Regional Assemblies and Local Governments as Actors of Rule of Law Resilience in Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom
2026/ 2027
Alexander Jabbari
The Grammar of Persianate Islam: Science, Sociability, and the Sacred in the Early Modern Muslim East
2026/ 2027
Abed Kanaaneh
Between Marxism and turath: Emile Tuma and the Synthesis of Class Consciousness and Islamic Heritage in Palestinian Political Thought
2026/ 2027
Alexandra Karppi
Contentious Activists or Loyal Mercenaries? Mapping Illiberal Civil Society in Serbia
2026/ 2027
Jad Kiadan
Can Tradition Provide Answers to the Present? The Crisis of Language in Contemporary Palestine
2026/ 2027
Hannah Kiel
Spillover Authoritarianism in Europe: Transnational Reinforcement Dynamics of Authoritarian Legal Mobilization in Germany
2026/ 2027
Piotr Krajewski
A Dirty Path to a Clean Future? EU Critical Raw Materials Policy and its Limits
2026/ 2027
Zahiye Kundos
The Loss of the Muftī: Reimagining the Afterlife of Muḥammad ‘Abduh’s Islamic Modernism in Arabic Literature
2026/ 2027
Towibah Majdub
The Politics of Choice: The Entry Law to Israel (2003) and the Phenomenology of Singlehood among Palestinians
2026/ 2027
2026/ 2027
2026/ 2027
Alia Mossallam
Tracing Emancipation under Rubbles of War: Popular Histories of North African Laborers from the Fronts of World War I to Revolution
2026/ 2027
Rim Naguib
The Deportation of Internationalist ‘foreigners’ and the Securitisation of Nationality in Colonial and Post-Colonial Egypt
2026/ 2027
Alberto Nicotina
Protecting the Rule of Law in Times of Climate Crisis: Strategic Climate Litigation as a Tool of Democratic Self-Preservation
2026/ 2027
Eli Osheroff
Recognition as Decolonization: An Intellectual-Cultural History of the Two-State Solution, 1948-1988
2026/ 2027
Valentine Pasquesoone
The EU Pact on Migration and Asylum: A Step Forward or A Setback for the Fundamental Rights of Survivors of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence?
2026/ 2027
Omri Polatsek
Agrochemical Transformations and their Knowledge Resources in Egypt, 1880s-1950s
2026/ 2027
Stefan Salomon
Mobilising state liability in EU law: the enforcement of migrants’ human rights through private law
2026/ 2027
Aida Samani
Eroding From Within: How Formally Compliant Democracies Suspend the Rule of Law for Politically Marginalized Groups
2026/ 2027
Valentina Schiattarella
Amazigh Cultural Artifacts in European Museums: Linguistic Documentation, Recirculation, and Fair Engagement
2026/ 2027
2026/ 2027
Saphe Shamoun
Dignified Worlds: The Possible, the Aftermath, and the Question of Syria
2026/ 2027
2026/ 2027
Magdalena Szarota
Disability as an Overlooked Litmus Test of EU Rule of Law and Democratic Responsiveness
2026/ 2027
Saniya Taher
From Blida to East Berlin: Alice Cherki and the Transnational Formation of Postcolonial Psychiatry
2026/ 2027
Zeynep Türkyılmaz
The Journey of Hovannes Avetaranian: A Quest for Self-Determination at the End of Empire (1861-1919)
2026/ 2027
Loaay Wattad
The Politics of Stories: Realism and Fantasy in Palestinian Children’s Literature
2026/ 2027
