2016

Youth and Education in the Middle East. Shaping Identity and Politics in Jordan. London: I.B. Tauris (Library of Modern Middle East Studies, 177).

• Reviewed by Vincent Romani in Revue d’Etudes sur le Monde Musulmanes et la Méditerranée 149 journals.openedition.org/remmm/12485

• Reviewed by Tariq Tell and Jocelyn DeJong in Contemporary Arab Affairs Vol. 11 No. 1-2, March-June 2018 (pp. 299-302) caa.ucpress.edu/content/11/1-2/299

• and in Idafat: al-majallah al-arabiyya li-l-Ulum al-Ijtima’iyya [Idafat: the Arab Journal of Sociology] Vol. 40, 2017 www.caus.org.lb/Home/publication_popup.php

• Reviewed in International Sociology, Vol. 33 Issue 5, September 2018, pp. 638-640 journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0268580918792148a

• In the Annals of Japan Association for Middle East Studies, Vol. 33 No. 2, 2017 pp. 91-95 www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ajames/33/2/33_91/_article/-char/en and in the Middle East Media and Books Reviews Online, Vol. 4 Issue 11, November 2016 middleeastreviewsonline.com/membr_review/youth-and-education-in-the-middle-east-shaping-identity-and-politics-in-jordan/

1. Rountable on African Anthropologies (Mitveranstalter). EASA 2020. Lissabon (online), 21 Juli 2020.
2. (Mitveranstalter) The Pillars of Rule: the Writ of Dynasties and Nation-States in the Middle East and South Asia. International Conference. Asien-Orient Institut, University of Zurich 31 January – 01 February 2019.
3. (Mitveranstalter) No country for anthropologists? Contemporary ethnographic research in the Middle East. University of Zurich, Institute of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies.
1-3 November 2018
4. Writing the Egyptian society; analytic perspectives on the Egyptian press and journalists’ autobiographies. Panel convened (with Aymon Kreil), DAVO Congress, Frankfurt 4-6 Oct. 2018.
5. Postcolonial legacies, scholarly mobility and research capacity building. International workshop, organized (with Lama Kabbanji), co-funded by OIB and IRD (France). Beirut, 15-17 June 2017.

. Hochschulsysteme in der arabischen Welt. Institut für Hochschulforschung, Wittenberg, 2. Juni 2020 (verschoben)
. Doctoral Studies at Egyptian Universities – producing knowledge in the social sciences and humanities. Konferenz “Le Doctorat dans les Suds”, Algiers, 14-15. Juni 2020 (verschoben).
1. Teilnahme als Expert an der Workshop on “Forces and Forms of Doctoral Education World-wide in a Newly Configured and Constrained Global Context 2019”. Herrenhausen Schloss, Volkswagenstiftung Konferenzzentrum, Hannover. September 2-6, 2019 doctoral-education.info/home.php
2. Buchpräsentation, Doktoratsstudien an ägyptischen Universitäten, Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) fourth conference, Beirut, 12-14 April 2019.
3. Knowledge, made in Egypt. An institutional approach to the production of knowledge and research since 1908. Paper presented at the International Conference The Pillars of Rule: the Writ of Dynasties and Nation-States in the Middle East and South Asia. International Conference. Asien-Orient Institut, University of Zurich 31 January – 01 February 2019.
4. Report from the International Conference: No Country for Anthropologists? Contemporary Ethnographic Research in the Middle East, November 2018 - 3. November 2018, University of Zurich. Paper presented at the workshop Political Orders in the Making: Cases from Inside and Across the Sahara, University of Bayreuth, 12 January 2019.
5. Students’ activism in/on universities in the Middle East – taking institutions seriously. Paper presented at a workshop organized within the project “Everyday religious practices of Muslim youth in Niger”, Leibnitz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, 11-12 December 2018.
6. Managing a new kind of universities – ethnographic insights from low-fees, for-profit new private universities in Egypt. Paper presented at the workshop ‘University Management and the (Re)-Organisation of Academia’. Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research (SCORE), University of Stockholm, 10 October 2018.
7. Ethnography of a university? The University of Jordan as an institution, and how to study it. Lecture given at the Anthropology Department, University of Stockholm, 31 May 2018.
8. Life-worlds and religious commitment, or between piety and the everyday. Anthropological perspectives on the religious subject in contemporary Islam. Workshop Modes of Reasoning as a Perspectival Nexus. Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, Turkey, 10 November 2017.
9. Doctoral Studies at Egyptian Public Universities; conditions and constraints of knowledge production. Paper presented at the conference Two decades discourse about globalizing social sciences - concepts, strategies, achievements. Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, Iran 26-7 April 2017 (ACSS sponsored panel on social sciences in the Arab world).

1. Decolonising Knowledge Production, in Egypt. Changes and continuities in doctoral education at Egyptian public universities. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie Tagung, Universität Konstanz, 29 September – 2 Oktober 2019.
2. Revolutionary phenomena, agents of conservativism, civic associations? Al-lijân al-sha’abeya (popular committees) in the Egyptian press, 2011-2013. Paper presented at 25. DAVO Congress, Frankfurt 4-6 October 2018
3. Doctoral Studies at Egyptian Public Universities; conditions and constraints of knowledge production. Paper presented at the 5. WOCMES, Sevilla 16-20 July 2018.
4. Ethnographies of university life from a troubled periphery: audit practices and quality assessment in private universities in Egypt. Paper presented at the 7th Ethnography and Qualitative Research Conference, University of Bergamo 7-9 June 2018.
5. New forms of confirmation and critique – the University in Egypt, post-2011. Paper presented at the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) III biannual conference, Beirut 10-12 March 2017.