Staff

Research Fellow

 
 

 

People

Associates

Affiliated People

Guests

Former members of staff

 

 

Claudia Ghrawi

Education and Training | Working Experience | Languages | Academic Activities | Publications

Trenner

Education Top

01/2011 – 08/2016 (expected submission date)

PhD, History, Freie Universität Berlin - Germany

04/2002 – 03/2010

Magistra Artium, History, Political Sciences, Media Sciences , University of Potsdam – Germany

Trenner

Working Experience Top

Since 01/2011

Research fellow, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (Geisteswissenschaftliche Zentren Berlin)

Trenner

Languages Top

Mother Tongue: German
Other Languages: English, Arabic, French, Italian

Trenner

Academic Activities Top

23 November 2014

Organization of MESA (Middle Eastern Studies Association) panel Saudi Arabian Urbanities: Histories of Civic Engagement and Urban Everyday Life in Changing State Settings

Winter Term 2013/2014

Organization of the ZMO Lecture Series Fuelling Societies: Energy
Resources and Politics ‘From Below’

12-14 June 2013

Organization of the ZMO/BGSMCS international Workshop Emerging Scholarship on Saudi Arabia: From the First Saudi State to the Present

Winter Term 2012/2013

Teaching the Master Seminar Geschichte, Politik und Gesellschaft des Modernen Saudi-Arabien (in collaboration with Ulrike Freitag), Freie University, Berlin – Germany

9-10 December 2011

Organization of the ZMO international Workshop Rethinking Public Violence in Modern Middle Eastern Cities

Trenner

Publications Top

Edited Volume:

(with Ulrike Freitag, Nelida Fuccaro, Nora Lafi, eds.): Urban Violence in the Middle East. Changing Cityscapes in the Transition from Empire to Nation State, Berghahn series Space & Place, Vol 14, New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2015, 334 p.

Chapters in edited volumes:

A Tamed Urban Revolution: Saudi Arabia's Oil Conurbation and the 1967 Riots, in: Nelida Fuccaro (ed.): Violence and the City in the Modern Middle East, Stanford, California: Stanford California Press, 2016, 109-126.

(with Ulrike Freitag, Nelida Fuccaro, Fatemeh Masjedi): Introduction, in: Ulrike Freitag. Nelida Fuccaro, Claudia Ghrawi, Nora Lafi (eds.), Urban Violence in the Middle East. Changing Cityscapes in the Transition from Empire to Nation State, Berghahn series Space & Place, Vol 14, New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2015, 1-25.

Structural and Physical Violence in Saudi Arabian Oil Towns, 1953-1956, in: Ulrike Freitag. Nelida Fuccaro, Claudia Ghrawi, Nora Lafi (eds.), Urban Violence in the Middle East. Changing Cityscapes in the Transition from Empire to Nation State, Berghahn series Space & Place, Vol 14, New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2015, 243-264.

Articles:

In the Service of the Whole Community? Civic Engagement in Saudi Arabia (1950s – 1960s), Jadaliyya, May 06, 2014.

Political and Civic Life at the Dawn of the Saudi Petro Age, The Middle East in London 10(4) (June-July 2014), 19-20.

Urban Violence in the Middle East. From Empire to Nation State, in: Ulrike Freitag (ed.), Researching Muslim Societies. Inside and Outside ZMO, ZMO, Berlin, 2014, 27-30.

Reviews:

(Rev.) “Sarah Yizraeli, Politics and Society in Saudi Arabia: The Crucial Years of Development, 1960-1982, London: C. Hurst & Co., 2012”, New Middle Eastern Studies 3 (2013), http://www.brismes.ac.uk/nmes/archive/1241.

Trenner