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Noël van den Heuvel

Assistant to the Director

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-104
Noël van den Heuvel
Noël van den Heuvel

Positions

Since 2020
Head of content in the advanced training lecture series for pedagogical staff “Basiswissen Islam”: a cooperation between Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Modul e. V. and the Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family
Since 2020
Assistant to the Director at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO)
2020
Student assistant in the project Learning Environments Online (LEON) for the Institute for Byzantine Studies and the Center für Digitale Systeme (CeDiS)
2018 - 2020
Research assistant in the project C 04 "Religious Speech as a Resource in South and Central Asia" of the SFB 1070 "ResourceCultures"
2018 - 2020
Student assistant at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO)
2017 - 2018
Interpreter for German and Arabic at private practice for neurology, psychiatry and psychotherapy
2016 - 2018
Assistance and initial Arabic-language consultation in the project „Anerkennungs- und Qualifizierungsberatung“ (AnQua) of the Türkischer Bund Berlin-Brandenburg (TBB)
2015 - 2016
Assistant for Fundraising at Muntadā Shārik al-Shabābī (Sharek Youth Foundation), Palestine

Education

2019
Semester abroad, King Adbulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
2017 - 2020
MA Religion and Culture, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
2016
2016 Intensive course Arabic, MSA and Levantine Dialect, Amman, Jordan
2013 - 2017
BA Islamic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin

Publication

2020
With Ulrike Freitag (2020) ‚Religion und Pandemie. Staat, Religion und Gesellschaft in Saudi-Arabien und Iran in der Coronakrise‘, Geschichte und Gesellschaft 46;3, pp. 494-506, https://doi.org/10.13109/gege.2020.46.3.494.

2019
Interview with the academic Joseph Daher: „Wir brauchen eine große Bewegung von Unten!“ – RLS – Publikationen
Also published with haokets in Arabic and Hebrew 

Media Articles

2019
Interviewed as a young researcher for the Süddeutsche Zeitung series „Am Start“

2016
Interview with the political scientist Joseph Daher: about his monography “Hezbollah. The Political Economy of the Party of God” (Pluto Press 2016) – RLS – Publikationen
Also published with haokets in Arabic and Hebrew

Scholarships

2019
DAAD Research Grant for Saudi Arabia

Memeberships

  • Middle East Studies Association (MESA)
  • Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies (AGAPS)

Languages

  • German: native speaker
  • English: full fluency (C2)
  • Arabic (MSA and Levantine and Hijazi dialect): advanced proficiency (C1)
  • French: upper intermediate (B2)