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.
2025/ 2026
Dukagjin Abdyli
Application of Rule of Law Standards by Constitutional Courts: A Comparative Analysis of CJEU, ECHR, and Venice Commission Influences
2025/ 2026
Susan Abraham
Narrating Faith Across the Straits: Morisco Manuals of Faith in Tunis and the Early Modern Mediterranean
2025/ 2026
2025/ 2026
2025/ 2026
Yvonne Albers
Chronotopias: Revolution and the Cultural Magazine in the Arab Long Sixties
2025/ 2026
York Albrecht
Black Box Berlaymont: Administrative Coordination within the European Commission and the Nexus between the Rule of Law and the Single Market
2025/ 2026
Delal Aydın
Belonging, Mourning, Mobilising: The Affective Politics of Kurdish Diasporic Communities in Europe
2025/ 2026
Hubert Bekisz
When the Rule of Law Hits the Border Fence: Exploring the Role of Courts in Adjudicating Pushbacks
2025/ 2026
2025/ 2026
Wendy Doyon
Ghost Writers of Upper Egypt: Arabic Archaeological Diaries and Archives in Translation
2025/ 2026
Nada El-Kouny
An Egyptian Village between two Revolutions: From Socialist Foundation to a Declaration of Independence
2025/ 2026
Victor Ellenbroek
Rules Under Pressure: How Radical Right Populists Are Reshaping Europe’s Parliaments
2025/ 2026
2025/ 2026
2025/ 2026
Dalia Halabi
Cultural Capital of a Minoritized Elite: The Intersection of Class and Ethnonational Identities of the Emerging Palestinian Elite in Israel
2025/ 2026
2025/ 2026
2025/ 2026
Ammar Kandeel
Palestinian Graphic Literature and the Archival Status: Strategies for Testimonial Credibility in a Transnational Field
2025/ 2026
Banu Karaca
Violent Possessions: Art, Cultural Heritage, and the Politics of Knowledge
2025/ 2026
Zahiye Kundos
The Loss of the Muftī: Reimagining the Afterlife of Muḥammad ‘Abduh’s Islamic Modernism in Arabic Literature
2025/ 2026
2025/ 2026
Aya Labanieh
Spectacle, Citizenship, and Satire: The Theatricality of Conspiracy in Assad’s Syria
2025/ 2026
Malak Labib
Governing Labor: Developmentalism, the Welfare State and Industrialization in Egypt (1945-1974)
2025/ 2026
Patrick Leisure
Schools and Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights: What Implications for Democracy in Europe?
2025/ 2026
Benedetta Lobina
Defending EU Values Through Strategic Litigation: An Assessment of New Avenues for Enforcement
2025/ 2026
Yann Lorans
Defending Democracy through EU Media Regulation: A Constitutional Appraisal
2025/ 2026
Towibah Majdub
The Politics of Choice: The Entry Law to Israel (2003) and the Phenomenology of Singlehood among Palestinians
2025/ 2026
Giulia Marini
Policing Solidarity? The Rising Criminalization of Civil Movements in Europe: A Case Study of the Palestine Solidarity Movement and the Erosion of Democratic Freedoms
2025/ 2026
2025/ 2026
Anne-Marie McManus
The Prison Narratives of Assad’s Syria: Voices, Texts, Publics (SYRASP)
2024/ 2025
Alia Mossallam
Tracing Emancipation under Rubbles of War: Popular Histories of North African Laborers from the Fronts of World War I to Revolution
2025/ 2026
Alina Mozolevska
Discursive Power of Digital Culture in Times of Crisis: Russo-Ukrainian War and its Symbolic Representations
2025/ 2026
Rim Naguib
The Deportation of Internationalist ‘foreigners’ and the Securitisation of Nationality in Colonial and Post-Colonial Egypt
2025/ 2026
2025/ 2026
Andrii Nekoliak
Unpacking the Politics of Constitutional Law Advice-Giving: The Venice Commission and Legal Change in Central and Eastern Europe
2025/ 2026
Olha Nykorak
Constitutional Democracy and Its Capacity for Self-Preservation in a Multipolar World: The Concept of Defensive Democracy in Germany, Ukraine, and the Broader European Experience
2025/ 2026
Eli Osheroff
Recognition as Decolonization: An Intellectual-Cultural History of the Two-State Solution, 1948-1988
2025/ 2026
Meret Plucis
Gendered Retirement - Women in the Shadows of Illiberal Constitutionalism
2025/ 2026
Omri Polatsek
Agrochemical Transformations and their Knowledge Resources in Egypt, 1880s-1950s
2025/ 2026
Taisiia Ratushna
Digital Bridges: Exploring Changing Relationships with Family and Homeland in the Context of Ukrainian Forced Migration
2025/ 2026
Marija Ristić
Digital Evidence and Advocacy of Human Rights-Based Arms and Technology Treaties
2025/ 2026
2025/ 2026
2025/ 2026
Denys Shatalov
The Entanglement and Interaction of Imagination, Commemoration, and Memory of World War II and the Ongoing War in Ukraine. The Case of Kryvyi Rih
2025/ 2026
2025/ 2026
2025/ 2026
Yuliia Soroka
People under occupation during the war in Ukraine: media representations, everyday life, and the perspective of postwar conflict transformation
2025/ 2026
Hossam Sultan
‘Thinking about the Future, stuck in the Past’: Imaginaries of the Future Home among the Palestinian Diaspora in Germany
2025/ 2026
Łukasz Szoszkiewicz
AI-Powered Monitoring: Integrating UN Human Rights Recommendations with EU Democracy and Rule of Law Standards
2025/ 2026
2025/ 2026
Zeynep Türkyılmaz
The Journey of Hovannes Avetaranian: A Quest for Self-Determination at the End of Empire (1861-1919)
2024/ 2025
Filiz Tütüncü Çağlar
Reframing Time: Exploring and Curating the Past at the Ottoman Imperial Museum
2025/ 2026
2025/ 2026
Loaay Wattad
The Politics of Stories: Realism and Fantasy in Palestinian Children’s Literature
2025/ 2026
2025/ 2026
2025/ 2026
İnan Özdemir Taştan
From Emotions to Political Demands: Women’s Movement, Mourning, and Struggle Against Gendered Necropolitics in Turkey
2025/ 2026
Çiçek İlengiz
Inheriting Anatolia: Representation, Knowledge Production and Imagination
2025/ 2026
2025/ 2026
Mária Žuffová
Hostile politics’ effect: How politicians’ attacks against media shape public trust and democracy
Please find all fellows of one academic year in our brochure »Program and Fellows« that you can download here.
