People

Positions

Since 11/2024
Research Fellow, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient
2020 - 2024
Research Fellow "AlterUmma" University of Birmingham (2020 – 2022) / Lund University (2022 – 2024)
2018 - 2020
Research Fellow. Max Weber Centre, University of Erfurt
2016 - 2017
Research Fellow, Orient Institute in Beirut
2013 - 2016
Lecturer in Middle East Politics, Free University of Berlin

Education

2008 - 2012
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Politics and International Affairs (Middle East), Durham University, United Kingdom
- 2007
Master of Arts (MA) in Politics and International Affairs (Middle East), Durham University, United Kingdom

Publications (select)

Edited volumes and Special Issues

Marei, Fouad G., Yafa Shanneik, and Christian Funke (eds.). 2024. Religion That Matters: Shiʿi Materiality Beyond Karbala. Leiden: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004691377

Marei, Fouad G. (ed.). 2024. God’s Influencers: How Social Media Users Shape Religion and Pious Self-Fashioning [special issue]. Journal of Religion, Media, and Digital Culture 13 (2). https://doi.org/10.1163/21659214-bja10140

Marei, Fouad G. (ed.), (forthcoming). How To Do No Harm: Essays on Ethics and Methods in Religious and Shiʿi Islamic Studies [special section]. International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies IJMES, 57 (1).

Research Articles

Marei, Fouad G., and Yafa Shanneik. 2021. “Lamenting Karbala in Europe: Husayni Liturgy and Discourses of Dissent amongst Diasporic Bahraini and Lebanese Shiʿis”, Journal of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, 32 (1), p. 53 – 79. http://doi.org/10.1080/09596410.2020.1827341

Marei, Fouad G. 2020. “From the Throes of Anguished Mourning: Shiʿi Ritual Lamentation and the Pious Publics of Lebanon”, Religion and Society 11 (1), p. 133 – 147. http://doi.org/10.3167/arrs.2020.110110

Marei, Fouad G. 2020. “Governing Dahiya: Interrogating the State in Beirut’s Southern Suburbs”, Journal of Leadership and Developing Societies 5 (1), p. 12 – 36. http://doi.org/10.47697/lds.34348002

Marei, Fouad G., et al. 2018. “Interventions on the Politics of Governing the ‘Ungovernable’”, Political Geography 67, p. 176 – 186. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2018.01.003

Book Chapters

Dewachi, Omar, Fouad G. Marei, and Jonathan Whittall. 2021. “Contested Statehood: The Politics of Health Care in Syria”. In Everybody’s War: The Politics of Aid in the Syria Crisis, ed. by J. Bseiso, M. Hofman, and J. Whittall. New York: Oxford University Press, p. 13 – 32.

Marei, Fouad G. 2016. “Preaching Development: Shiʿi Piety and Neoliberalism in Beirut”. In Religious Activism in the Global Economy: Promoting, Reforming or Resisting Neoliberal Globalization?, ed. by Sabine Dreher and Peter J. Smith. Washington, DC:Rowman & Littlefield, p. 167 – 187.