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Professional Experience
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07/2014 - present |
Researcher and research coordinator at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin |
10/2012 - 03/2013 |
Teaching appointment, course on “Internet Ethnography,” Institute for European Ethnology, Humboldt-University of Berlin |
03/2009 - 02/2012 |
PhD-fellow, Institute for Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo (PhD course in Media Studies and Journalism) |
01/2008 - 02/2009 |
Assistant to the director Prof. Ulrike Freitag, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin |
01/2005 - 10/2007 |
Student research assistant (for Dyala Hamzah, Bettina Dennerlein and Prof. Ulrike Freitag), Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin |
Research interests 
Media anthropology, anthropology of the Middle East, practice theory, migration research
Languages
German (mother tongue), English, Arabic, French
Selected publications and conference presentations
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Monography |
2009 |
Al-Jazeera vor Ort. Journalismus als ethische Praxis. Frank & Timme, Berlin. |
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Articles |
2011 |
“Of Islands and Windows – Publicness in the Lebanese Blogosphere.” Oriento Moderno 91 (1): 139-159. |
2011 |
“Blogging as counterpublic? The Lebanese and the Egyptian Blogosphere in Comparison.” In: Nadja-Christina Schneider und Bettina Gräf(Hrsg.): Social Dynamics 2.0: Researching Change in Times of Media Convergence. Frank & Timme, Berlin, pp. 27-47. |
2005 |
„Folklorisierung ohne Reibungsverluste. Kurdische Kulturpolitik auf der Bühne des Karnevals.“ In: Michi Knecht und Levent Soysal (Hrsg.): Plausible Vielfalt: Wie der Karneval der Kulturen denkt, lernt und Kultur schafft. Panama, Berlin, 2005, pp. 193-211. |
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Conference presentations |
2017 |
"Modes of resistance? Space-related activism and cultural entrepreneurship in Kuwait City" at the Third ACSS Conference State, Sovereignty and Social Space in the Arab Region:Emerging Historical and Theoretical in Beirut, March 12, 2017. |
2016 |
"Different claims to participation? Bedoon protests and migrants space appropriation in Kuwait City" at the Workshop Spaces of Participation: Public Interventions, Contestations & Urban Transformation in Amman, November 1-4, 2016. |
2014 |
“In Search of Urban Involvement – Cultural Activism in Kuwait City,”paper presented at the EUME Summer Academy Conflict and Mobility in the City: Urban Space, Youth and Social Transformations in Rabat, August 25 - September 5, 2014. |
2014 |
“Researching activism from a media/digital anthropology angle,”paper presented at the seminar Rethinking Activism before and after the Arab Revolutions, held at the Centre for Resolution of International Conflicts, University of Copenhagen, November 15, 2014. |
2013 |
“Die Produktion von virtueller Lokalität in der libanesischen Blogosphäre,” paper presented at the DGV-Conference 2013, panel “Mediale Entgrenzung. Die Wechselwirkung zwischen virtuellen und sozialen Netzwerken und Mobilität,” Mannheim, Germany, October 2-5, 2013. |
2010 |
“Blogging as Public Diary, Strategy of Professionalization, and Political Tool: A Case Study of the Lebanese Blogosphere,” paper presented at the European Anthropologists Association Conference, panel “Homo technos,” Maynooth, Irland, August 24-27, 2010. |
2010 |
“Publicness and New Boundaries in the Lebanese Blogosphere,” paper presented at the World Congress of Middle Eastern Studies, panel “Rereading the Public Sphere,” Barcelona, Spain, July 19-24, 2010. |
2009 |
“Al-Jazeera in Europe: Ethos of Translation and the Constraints of Mediation,” paper presented at CAMMRO, Third annual doctoral symposium on Arab and Muslim Media Research, King’s College, University of London, April 25, 2009. |
Workshops and Panels
November 1-4, 2016 |
Spaces of Participation: Public Interventions, Contestations & Urban Transformation", Amman. |
March 10-12, 2017 |
Panel 36 "Citizenship, Resistance and the Public Sphere" at the Third ACSS Conference, Beirut. |
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