Education and Training | Working Experience | Languages | Academic Activities | Publications
Education
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 |
Working Experience
Since 01/2011 |
Research fellow, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (Geisteswissenschaftliche Zentren Berlin) |
Languages
Mother Tongue: German
Other Languages: English, Arabic, French, Italian
Academic Activities
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 |
Publications
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.
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