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.

EUME
2023/ 2024

Sanabel Abdelrahman

Beyond Magical Realism: Situating Palestinian Liberation within Indigenous Futurisms

Bio & Project

EUME
2023/ 2024

Hashem Abushama

Articulations: Settler Colonialism, Dispossession and Arts

Bio & Project

EUME
2023/ 2024

Ahmed Adam

Sudanese Archaeological Heritage in a Changing World

Bio & Project

EUME
2023/ 2024

Yvonne Albers

Chronotopias: Revolution and the Cultural Magazine in the Arab Long Sixties

Bio & Project

EUME
2023/ 2024

Burcu Alkan

From Pseudo-Medicine to Freudo-Marxism: The Impact of Psychoanalysis on the Twentieth Century Turkish Novel

Bio & Project

EUME
2023/ 2024

Toygun Altıntaş

Integration and Minoritization: Governing Hierarchies in the Late Ottoman Empire

Bio & Project

EUME
2023/ 2024

C. Ceyhun Arslan

A Literary History of the Mediterranean from its East and South

Bio & Project

re:constitution
2023/ 2024

Ruji Auethavornpipat

Fighting Rule of Law Backsliding: Civil Society Activism and Protection of the Fundamental Rights of Migrants in Europe

Bio & Project

EUME
2023/ 2024

Eylaf Bader Eddin

Musical Remains and Songs in Syrian Prisons and Exile

Bio & Project

EUME
2023/ 2024

Gülhan Balsoy

Late Ottoman Politics of Family, Gender, and the Making of Familial Citizenship

Bio & Project

re:constitution
2023/ 2024

Grażyna Baranowska / Mobility Phase: Polish Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, Warsaw

Is Poland’s Rule of Law Crisis Affecting Its Border Practices at the Polish–Belarus Border?

Bio & Project

re:constitution
2023/ 2024

Bohdan Bernatskyi

Boosting Enforcement through Sanctions Design

Bio & Project

re:constitution
2023/ 2024

Olga Ceran

Academic Freedom amid the Rule of Law Crises: Article 13 CFR and the Scope of EU Intervention

Bio & Project

EUME
2023/ 2024

Elise Daniaud Oudeh

Representations of the Syrian conflict in official Syrian and Russian discourses: a bilingual study of the role of mediatisation in contemporary warfare

Bio & Project

re:constitution
2023/ 2024

Claire Debucquois

Green for Whom? Analyzing the European Green Deal and Sustainable Finance through a Wide-Angle Lens

Bio & Project

re:constitution
2023/ 2024

James Devaney

Using EU Sanctions on Russia to Compensate Ukraine: Norm Collision and the Protection of the International Rule of Law in Europe

Bio & Project

re:constitution
2023/ 2024

Daniela Dobre

The Eurogroup in the Shadow of the (European) Rule of Law

Bio & Project

EUME
2023/ 2024

Nada El-Kouny

Mediating Political Subjectivities: Infrastructure, Mobility, and Social Action in Egypt’s Nile Delta

Bio & Project

EUME
2023/ 2024

Gennaro Gervasio

Subaltern Activism and the ‘Arab Uprisings’ in Egypt and Iraq

Bio & Project

re:constitution
2023/ 2024

Marius Ghincea

Geopolitical Competition and the Rule of Law in the Western Balkans

Bio & Project

EUME
2023/ 2024

Lara Harb

Mimesis in Classical Arabic Literature

Bio & Project

EUME
2023/ 2024

Linda Herrera

Oral Histories of Educational Change and Digital Futures in Egypt

Bio & Project

re:constitution
2023/ 2024

Tivadar Hüttl

GDPR Weaponized: How Data Protection Undermines the Freedom of Press

Bio & Project

EUME
2023/ 2024

Çiçek İlengiz

Inheriting Anatolia: Representation, Knowledge Production and Imagination

Bio & Project

EUME
2023/ 2024

Nurçin İleri

Electrical Istanbul: Technology, the Environment, and Everyday Life

Bio & Project

EUME
2023/ 2024

Banu Karaca

Beyond Restitution: Heritage, (Dis)Possession and the Politics of Knowledge (BEYONDREST)

Bio & Project

EUME
2023/ 2024

Mariz Kelada

Behind the Seen: The Extramoral Political Economies of Visual Media Production in Egypt

Bio & Project

EUME
2023/ 2024

Mouez Khalfaoui

The Lost Branch of the Hanafi School of Law: The failed Transplantation of Hanafi Madhab in North Africa in the Premodern Era

Bio & Project

EUME
2023/ 2024

Mina Khanlarzadeh

Border Crossings: Reimagining the Archives of Intellectual History Through Iranian Female Activists in 1960s and 70s Germany

Bio & Project

EUME
2023/ 2024

Yasmine Kherfi

The Aftermaths of Revolutionary Defeat: Arab Cultural Interventions from Exile

Bio & Project

re:constitution
2023/ 2024

Karolina Kocemba

The Role of Non-State Actors in (anti)Women's Rights Legal Mobilization

Bio & Project

re:constitution
2023/ 2024

Katarzyna Krzyżanowska

The Legalist Mind — a View from the Semi-Periphery on the European Union

Bio & Project

EUME
2023/ 2024

Zahiye Kundos

The Loss of the Muftī: Reimagining the Afterlife of Muḥammad ‘Abduh’s Islamic Modernism in Arabic Literature

Bio & Project

EUME
2023/ 2024

Anne-Marie McManus

The Prison Narratives of Assad’s Syria: Voices, Texts, Publics (SYRASP)

Bio & Project

re:constitution
2023/ 2024

Wolfgang Minatti

From Stability to Uncertainty: “Zeitenwende” and the Delegitimation of European Security Governance

Bio & Project

EUME
2023/ 2024

Alia Mossallam

Tracing Emancipation under Rubbles of War: Popular Histories of North African Laborers from the Fronts of World War I to Revolution

Bio & Project

EUME
2023/ 2024

Nil Mutluer

In-between Diversity and Polarization: The Politics of Gender, Ethnicity and Religion in post 1980 Turkey

Bio & Project

EUME
2023/ 2024

Rim Naguib

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

Bio & Project

EUME
2023/ 2024

Laetitia Nanquette

A History of Publishing in Iran from the 1950s to the Present

Bio & Project

EUME
2023/ 2024

Lea Nocera

Editorial Politics and Choices: The Translation of Yakup Kadri’s novel Yaban (The Stranger) in Nazi-Fascist Europe

Bio & Project

EUME
2023/ 2024

İnan Özdemir Taştan

From Emotions to Political Demands: Women’s Movement, Mourning, and Struggle Against Gendered Necropolitics in Turkey

Bio & Project

EUME
2023/ 2024

Zainab Qadiri

The Genocide of the Hazara

Bio & Project

EUME
2023/ 2024

Fatemeh Shams

Portraits of Exile in Persian Literary Tradition

Bio & Project

EUME
2023/ 2024

Lana Sirri

Muslim Women on the Front Lines of Social and Political Change: A Case Study of the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries

Bio & Project

EUME
2023/ 2024

Oraib Toukan

Decruelling Images: The Micro Visual Field of Violence

Bio & Project

EUME
2023/ 2024

Filiz Tütüncü Çağlar

The Unknown History of Ottoman Archaeology: An Entangled Legacy

Bio & Project

re:constitution
2023/ 2024

Marietta van der Tol

"Legitimate aims": security, identity, and religion in Europe

Bio & Project

re:constitution
2023/ 2024

Sixtine Van Outryve

Can the Workers Speak Both Collectively and Democratically? Rethinking Union Democracy

Bio & Project

EUME
2023/ 2024

Loaay Wattad

The Politics of Stories: Realism and Fantasy in Palestinian Children’s Literature

Bio & Project

re:constitution
2023/ 2024

Karolina Zbytniewska

Populist Skirmishers: How Rule of Law Has Become the Enemy of Democracy in the European Union?

Bio & Project

EUME
2023/ 2024

Himmat Zoubi

Re-urbanizing Palestine: “Cultural Spaces” and Palestinian Urbanity

Bio & Project

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