This research goup, headed by Dr. Sophia Hoffmann, analyses the exchange of secret service knowledge between German and Arab intelligence agencies between 1960 and 2010. The project is funded by a Freigeist Fellowship Grant from the Volkswagen Foundation.
Normality and Crisis: Memories of Everyday Life in Syria as a Chance for a New Start in Germany is a joint research project based at ZMO with civil society partners from Berlin and Brandenburg. The project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research(BMBF) for a period of three years (February 2018 - January 2021).
Liminal Spaces is a joint research project with partners in Morocco (Mohammad V University-Agdal/Rabat), Egypt (Prof. Randa Aboubakr) and Palestine (A. M. Qattan Foundation). The project is funded by the VolkswagenStiftung for a period of three years from January 2018 to December 2020.
With this DFG-funded project, Dr. Malte Fuhrmann will analyze developmentality as a specific discourse on progress by focusing on traffic infrastructure in Bulgaria and Turkey. Comparing the deeply entangled neighboring countries of Bulgaria and Turkey promises to yield a better understanding of the common roots and later divergences in the manifestation of developmentality in Southeastern Europe.