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.
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Diana Abbani
Private and Public Sites of Modernity: Music Technology and Production in the Levant (1900-1948)
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Refqa Abu-Remaileh
PalREAD – Country of Words: Reading and Reception of Palestinian Literature from 1948 to the Present
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Yvonne Albers
Chronotopias: Revolution and the Cultural Magazine in the Arab Long Sixties
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Burcu Alkan
From Pseudo-Medicine to Freudo-Marxism: The Impact of Psychoanalysis on the Twentieth Century Turkish Novel
2022/ 2023

Toygun Altıntaş
Integration and Minoritization: Governing Hierarchies in the Late Ottoman Empire
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Denys Brylov
Monitoring the Dynamics of Migration Practices in Religious Communities During the War in Ukraine
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Önder Çelik
Things Without Owners: Legal Fictions, Buried Treasures, and the Memory of the Armenian Genocide
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Eman Elnemr
Discourse of Public Morals in Egypt 1880-1945: Modernization, Social Rebellion, and Licentiousness (khala‘a)
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Samer Frangie
Politics of the Aftermath: Tradition, Memory and Temporality in the Lebanese Left, 1969-1987
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Razan Ghazzawi
From Carceral Geographies to Racialized Borders: A Queer Feminist Ethnography
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Barbara Grabowska-Moroz
Pegasus in Times of the Rule of Law Crisis - Surveillance and Illiberalism in Central and Eastern Europe
2022/ 2023

Ivo Gruev
Anti-liberal Constitutionalism on the Rise: Contesting Gender before Eastern European Constitutional Courts
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Fouad Halbouni
Exercises in Survival: The Moral Lives of Coptic Activists in Post-Revolutionary Egypt
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Çiçek İlengiz
Inheriting Anatolia: Representation, Knowledge Production and Imagination
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Vadym Ilin
Military Destruction of the Late Soviet Urban Space and Soviet Man’s Identity in Ukraine
2022/ 2023

Aleksandra Jolkina
Beyond the ‘Hybrid Threat’ Paradigm: EU-Belarus Border Crisis and the Erosion of Asylum-Seeker Rights in a Comparative Perspective
2022/ 2023

Tetiana Kalenychenko
Monitoring the Dynamics of Migration Practices in Religious Communities During the War in Ukraine
2022/ 2023

Banu Karaca
Beyond Restitution: Heritage, (Dis)Possession and the Politics of Knowledge (BEYONDREST)
2022/ 2023

Jeffrey G. Karam
Revolution and the Boundaries of Political Change: The Lebanon Uprising of 2019 and the International Politics of Counter-Revolution
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Maciej Krogel
Legal Scholars as Constitutional Agents Designing the Protection of the Rule of Law and Democracy
2022/ 2023

Zahiye Kundos
The Loss of the Muftī: Reimagining the Afterlife of Muḥammad ‘Abduh’s Islamic Modernism in Arabic Literature
2022/ 2023

Lidia Kuzemska
Between Hostages and New Citizens: What is the Role of Displaced Ukrainian Citizens in Russia?
2022/ 2023

Olha Labur
‘The Other War’ or Prospects of Survival: The Stories of Women Refugees with Cancer in the Russo-Ukrainian War
2022/ 2023

Anne-Marie McManus
The Prison Narratives of Assad’s Syria: Voices, Texts, Publics (SYRASP)
2022/ 2023

Marijana Mitrović
Sustainability of Return and (Re)Integration for Roma Returnees under Readmission Agreements in Serbia: Transnational and Gender Aspects
2022/ 2023

Alia Mossallam
Tracing Emancipation under Rubbles of War: Popular Histories of North African Laborers from the Fronts of World War I to Revolution
2022/ 2023

Alina Mozolevska
Borders, Maps and Identities: Narrating and Living in the Russo-Ukraine War
2022/ 2023

Nil Mutluer
In-between Diversity and Polarization: The Politics of Gender, Ethnicity and Religion in post 1980 Turkey
2022/ 2023

Rim Naguib
Policing Internationalism and Setting the Nation’s Boundary: Deportation, Nationality and Foreigners’ Residence in Egypt, 1919-1967
2022/ 2023

Raphael Oidtmann
Fighting Impunity Through Intermediaries – The European Union, International Criminal Justice, and the Rule of Law in Times of War
2022/ 2023

İnan Özdemir Taştan
From Emotions to Political Demands: Women’s Movement, Mourning, and Struggle Against Gendered Necropolitics in Turkey
2022/ 2023

Polly Ruth Polak
The Lesser of Two Evils: An Unlawful Withdrawal Notification under the EU’s Article 2 Values
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Taisiia Ratushna
The Role of Social Networks in the Process of Forced Migration: Through the Prism of Life Stories of Ukrainian Migrants Between Ukraine and Germany
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Arbia Selmi
The Struggle of the Women’s Movement in Egypt for a Personal Status Law based on Equality, Justice, and Freedom
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Denys Shatalov
‘That War’ and ‘This War’: The Entanglement and Interaction of the Imagination, Commemoration and Memory of World War II and the Ongoing War in Ukraine
2022/ 2023

Lana Sirri
Muslim Women on the Front Lines of Social and Political Change: A Case Study of the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries
2022/ 2023

Yuliia Soroka
Giving a Voice to People under Occupation: Media Representations of War in Ukraine
2022/ 2023

Silvia Steininger
Let’s Talk About the Rule of Law: Court Communication in the European Rule of Law Crisis
2022/ 2023

Sana Tannoury-Karam
“Part of a Whole”: Anti-Fascists, Internationalists, and Suffragettes in the Levant, 1920-1950
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Sedat Ulugana
Between Sheikhs and Missionaries: Kurdish-Armenian Relations during the Ottoman Centralization
2022/ 2023

Teresa Violante
Managing conflicts of authority between national constitutional courts and the European Court of Justice: a weak judicial review proposal
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Edit Zgut-Przybylska
Informal Exercise of Power in Hybrid Authoritarian Regimes: Undermining Democracy beneath the Radar of the EU
2022/ 2023

Please find all fellows of one academic year in our brochure »Program and Fellows« that you can download here.