ZMO - People

People

Former members of staff

Academic Staff | Technical Staff | Student Assistants

Academic Staff

Prof. Dr. Ulrike Freitag
Director

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-0
Email:

Field of research: Islamic networks in the Indian Ocean, urban and
intellectual history of the modern Middle East
Migration and the constitution of urbanity in Jeddah in the 19th century
Regional specialisation: Arabic countries (notably Bilad al-Sham and
Arabian Peninsula), Indian Ocean

Dr. Kai Kresse
Vice Director for Research

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-218
Email:

Field of research: Shifts of meaning - Muslim discourses of reform and the practice of everyday life in postcolonial Mombasa
Regional specialisation: Eastafrica, particularly Mombasa and Kenyan Swahili coast

Dr. Sonja Hegasy
Vice Director and Head External Relations

Head of the project (together with Prof. Ulrike Freitag) "Identity Politics in Changing Societies of Morocco and of Iraq" at the SFB 640

Head of the project “Transforming Memories: Cultural Production and Personal/Public Memory in Lebanon and Morocco”

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-223
Email:

Field of research: civil society, intercultural dialogue, politics of memory, globalization / world society
Regional specialisation: Arabic countries

Larissa Schmid / Representation: Nils Riecken
Academic Assistant to the Director

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-104
Email:

Regina Sarreiter
Public Relations Assistant to the Director

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-224
Email:

Dr. Chanfi Ahmed

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-113
Email:

Field of research: From West Africa to Arabia. West African ulama in Mekka and Medina (19th and 20th centuries).
Regional specialisation: East Africa, Arabic countries

Dr. Ahmed Badawi

Phone: +49-(0)30- 2093-4836
Mobile: +49 (0)160 108 2840
Email:
Adress: HU-Berlin: Mohrenstr. 40/41, 10117 Berlin

Field of research: A Far Enemy or a Partner for Peace and Development: Representations of Europe among Contemporary Egyptian Islamists, Europa-Repräsentationen und transnationale Öffentlichkeiten im Vergleich: Europa, arabische Welt, Russland, 1850er-1910er Jahre und 1990er Jahre, SFB 640 der HU Berlin: Repräsentationen sozialer Ordnungen im Wandel. Interkulturelle und intertemporäre Vergleiche

Dr. Yasmine Berriane

Phone: +49-(0)30-838-57386
Email:

Field of Research: Women contesting customary law: the Soulaliyate Movement in Morocco

Just Boedeker

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-150
Email:

Field of research: The Baloch Borderlands: The Conflict of Tribe and State in a Globalized World

PD Dr. Katrin Bromber

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-237
Email:

Field of research: Running at the Top: East African Competitive Sports between National Hallmark, Local Bone of Contention, and Object of Supra-Regional Trade.
Regional specialisation: East Africa, Indian Ocean

Vanessa Díaz Rivas

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-144
Email:

Field of Research: Europe and the Image of one's own in the contemporary art of Angola
Regional specialisation: Africa

Erdem Evren

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-151
Email:

Field of Research: Fluid Destinies: Techno-Capitalist Development and the Politics of Water in the Black Sea Region of Turkey

Dr. Jeanne Féaux de la Croix

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-105
Email:

Field of Research: Competing forms of knowledge in Kyrgyzstan: inter-generational debates over the pastoral economy
Regional specialisation: Zentralasien

Dr. Andrea Fischer-Tahir

Phone: +49-(0)30-2093-4898
Email:
Adress: HU-Berlin: Mohrenstr. 40/41, 10117 Berlin

Field of Research: Inside, Outside: Gender and Representation in Urban Society of Iraqi Kurdistan, SFB 640 Humboldt University Berlin: "Identity Politics in Changing Societies of Morocco and of Iraq"

Dr. Bettina Gräf

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-144
Email:

Field of research: Public Debates in Transcultural Space: The Concept of Islam as Political Order at the Beginning of the Cold War

CV / Persönliche Webpage

Dr. Dyala Hamzah

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-238
Email:

Field of research: Joint Research Project Akteure der kulturellen Globalisierung, 1890 - 1940: Societies, Scouts and Schoolbooks for the Arab Nation: A case study of Pan-Arabist Darwish al-Miqdadi (1897-1961)
Regional specialisation: Arabic countries

Link CV / Homepage

Aksana Ismailbekova

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-153
Email:

Field of research: Crossroads Asia: Conflict Dynamics, Local Strategies and Translocal Ties in the Fergana Valley
Regional specialisation: Central Asia

Dr. Marloes Janson

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-249
Email:

Field of research: The Emergence of Chrislam in Lagos (Nigeria): Moving Towards "Islamic Pentecostalism"
Regional specialisation: West-Africa, particularly Gambia

Feras Krimsti

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-123
Email:

Field of research: From the Province to the Centre: Translocal Perspectives and representations of Istanbul in the Travelogue of the Aleppan Ḥannā ṭ-Ṭabīb“

Dr. Nora Lafi

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-239
Email:

Field of research: Living together in the Ottoman City: Rules, Norms and Conflict Management patterns in Cairo, Aleppo and Tunis

Dr. Katharina Lange

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-222
Email:

Field of research: The politics of memory in rural Syria: tribal histories of the Welde
Regional specialisation: Arabic countries

Dr. Heike Liebau

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-226
Email:

Field of research: Competing reading rooms. Discourses and practices in dealing with printmedia in colonial India
Regional specialisation: South Asia

Fatemeh Masjedi

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-102
Email:

Field of research: Political violence and social disorder in the cities of Tehran and Tabriz in Early Twentieth Century Iran (1906-1920)

Dr. Antía Mato Bouzas

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-217
Email:

Field of research: Crossroads Asia: Contested Borderlands in a Changing Scenario: Sovereignty, Citizenship and Sense of Belonging in Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan
Regional specialisation: South Asia

Leyla von Mende

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-144
Email:

Field of research: "Today's neighbour - yesterday's subject": The Balkans between Ottoman Empire and Europe from the perspective of Ottoman travellers, 1870-1918

Laura Menin

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-232
Email:

Field of Research: Wounded Memories: Present Pasts in Contemporary Moroccan Film and (Auto-) Biography

Dr. Soumen Mukherjee

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-152
Email:

Field of research: Of ‘Faith’ and Faith-Based Organisations (FBOs):
The Case of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) in Post-Colonial India
Regional specialisation: South Asia

Dr. Norman Saadi Nikro

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-232
Email:

Field of research: The Actualisation of Memory: Cultural Production in Lebanon

M. Ali Raza

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-220
Email:

Field of research: Communist Internationalism and the South Asian Left ca. 1917-1979

PD Dr. Dietrich Reetz

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-116
Email:

Field of research: Crossroads Asia: In and Out of South Asia: Transnational Community-Building in Religious and Ethnic Networks, Muslim Global Networks
Regional specialisation: South Asia, Europe

Dr. Florian Riedler

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-123
Email:

Field of research: Urban Borders in post-Ottoman Cities of South-Eastern Europe. Edirne and Niš from a comparative perspective

Dr. Sophie Roche

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-233

Field of research: Youth and Identitiy in Text and Context: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Islamic Fundamentalism among Young Tajik Men
Regional specialisation: Central Asia, Tajikistan

Dr. Samuli Schielke

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-120
Email:

Field of research: Imaginary cosmopolitans; Engaging the world between Egypt and Europe
Regional specialisation: Egypt

Claudia Schröder

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-102
Email:

Field of research: Projekt „Urban Violence in the Middle East“, Teilprojekt „Saudi-Arabia 1920s-1960s“

Dr. Nitin Sinha

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-114
Email:

Field of research: Circulation on the Ganges, 1700-1900
Regional specialisation: South Asia

Daniela Swarowsky

Telefon: +49-(0)30-20 192 186
Email:

Curator of exhibition project: To Find Europe: Considering the Possible in Africa and the Middle East

Sophie Wagenhofer

Phone: +49-(0)30-2093-4898
HU-Berlin: Mohrenstr. 40/41, 10117 Berlin
Email:

Field of research: "Identity Politics in Changing Societies of Morocco and of Iraq" (SFB 640, Humboldt University Berlin)
Regional specialisation: Arabic countries

Dr. Dina Wilkowsky

Phone: +49(0)30-80307-220
Email:

Field of research:Contesting public spheres: "Discussion clubs" in Kazakhstan between Politics, Science and Islam
Regional specialisation: Central Asia, Kazakhstan

Link CV / Homepage

PD Dr. Steffen Wippel

Telefon: +49(0)30-80307-148
Email:

Field of research: Tanger - Salalah: Globalising "Regional Cities"
Regional specialisation: Marocco, Mauratania, Arabian Peninsula

Link CV / Homepage

Dr. Benjamin Zachariah

Phone: +49(0)30-80307-244
Email:

Field of research: Indian exiles in Berlin, 1914-1945
Regional specialisation: South Asia

Technical Staff

Svenja Becherer
Publications

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-228
Email:

Petra Engler
Facility Manager

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-101
Email:

Dr. Silke Nagel
Office

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-0
Email:

Dr. Thomas Ripper
Library

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-107
Email:

Ursula Benzin
Library

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-106
Email:

Tilman Böcker
Libary

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-103
Email:

Michael Schutz
Networkadministrator

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-215
Email

An Seebach
Scientific-Technical Assistant of the BMBF-Project: "In Search of Europe"

Phone: +49-(0)30-20 192 186
Email:

Student Assistants

Nushin Atmaca
Email:

Saboura Beutel
Email:

Philipp Dehne
Email:

Felicia Gottschalk
Email:

Sebile Güneysel
Email:

Liese Hoffmann
Email:

Judith Höffkes
Email:

Anna Jäger
Email:

Semra Kartal
Email:

Johanna Klauke
Email:

Christian Kübler
Email:

Irina Lofink
Email:

Yasser Mehanna
Email:

Zoé Oßwald
Email:

Lara Rösler
Email:

Teresa Schlögl
Email:

Silvia Schröcker
Email:

Julian Tadesse
Email:

Tijana Vukmirovic
Email:

Jolita Zabarskaite
Email:

Christoph Zelke
Email:

Stephanie Zöllner
Email:

collective Phone Number: +49-(0)30-80307-235