Dr. Diliara Brileva
Associated Researcher
Email: diliara.brileva(at)zmo.de
Research project:
Regional focus:
Russia, especially the Volga-Urals region; Ukraine; Middle East, especially Turkey
PD Dr. Katrin Bromber
Former Head of Research Unit "Age and Generation"
Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-237
Email: Katrin.Bromber(at)zmo.de
Regional focus:
East- and Northeast Africa
Dr. Denys Brylov
Associated Researcher
Email: Denys.Brylov(at)zmo.de
Research project:
Sufi Fundamentalists: Al-Ahbash transnational Sufi network in Western Europe
Regional focus:
Post-Soviet countries, especially Ukraine and Russia
Dr. Daniele Cantini
Affiliated Researcher
Current research:
Scholarly Ways. Mobility, Knowledge Production and Research Capacity Building Between Europe and the Middle East
Dr. Sana Chavoshian
Research Fellow
Email: Sana.Chavoshian(at)zmo.de
Current research:
My research focuses on war- and sanction-ecologies in Iran and Iraq, exploring how material and affective environments shape atmospheres and unsettle boundaries between religion, politics, and everyday life. I investigate how these landscapes of wars invoke, stage and orchestrate new forms of collective memory, dreamscape, and resistance through embodied experiences and sensory (olfactory, auratic and haptic) relations to the environment. By examining martyrdom, women dreams and rituals in their pious circles, and state politics in post-war Iran, my work reveals how religion and secularity are felt and lived beyond formal state scripts—through the atmospheres of breath, dust, and landscape in contested borderlands marked by war and sanctions.
Research project:
"Suspension: Dust-wind in Irans landscapes of war"
Sari Chreiteh
Research Fellow
Email: sari.shrayteh(at)zmo.de
Research project:
Predictive Narratives and Magical Thinking as Coping Mechanisms in Lebanon’s Radical Uncertainty (2019-2024)
Florian Coppenrath
Affiliated Researcher
Email: florian.coppenrath(at)zmo.de
Regional focus:
Central Asia, especially Kyrgyzstan, Russia