Noura Chalati
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
Noura Chalati is a PhD candidate at Freie Universität in Berlin and a research fellow at ZMO in the “Learning Intelligence” research group. Her PhD project is about East German and Syrian intelligence relations (MfS-Mukhabarat) during the Cold War. She is a political scientist focused on International Political Sociology perspectives and the Levant (mainly Syria). She obtained her postgraduate degree in “International Relations of the Middle East” from the University of Edinburgh in 2019.
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Positions
Education
Awards
Publications
2022 (with Sophia Hoffmann and Ali Dogan) “Rethinking intelligence practices and processes: three sociological concepts for the study of intelligence,” Intelligence and National Security (open access).
2020 "Illness as Metaphor and Reality in Syria," Middle East Report 297 (Winter).
2018 “Women as the Standard-Bearers of National Identity in Rojava.” The Leviathan Journal of Politics and International Relations (Pride) 8(3): 23-24.
Outreach and Knowledge Transfer
06/2022 "Der Austausch ging in beide Richtungen," Interview mit Jannis Hagmann für das Leibniz Magazin über Interaktionen der Geheimdienste der DDR und Syriens.
04/2022 "Töten für Assad - Massenmord auf Video," Interview für Dokumentation von Report Mainz über den syrischen Militärgeheimdienst.
02/2022 "MfS und Mukhabarat,“ Interview für Podcast des Projekts Geruch der Diktatur.
12/2021 "Der Geruch des Archivs," eine Reflexion über die Archivarbeit im Stasi-Unterlagen-Archiv und Diktaturerfahrungen für das Projekt Geruch der Diktatur.
09/2021 Background Interview for Al-Jazeera documentary "The Trial of Anwar Raslan".
04/2021 "Factory of Fear," Interview for Podcast "Branch 251" on the Syrian Mukhabarat's historic ties with Nazi officers and the East German Stasi.
03/2021 Participation in Leibniz event "Book a Scientist".
Teaching
Wintersemester 2022/23 Universität Hamburg, BA Islamwissenschaft, Seminar: Geschichte und Politik Syriens im 20. Jahrhundert.
Wintersemester 2022/23 Universität Hamburg, BA Islamwissenschaft/ MA Manuscript Cultures, Seminar: Nur verstaubte Archive? Archivpolitik, Archivarbeit als Methode und arabischsprachige Quellenlektüre.
Sommersemester 2022 FU Berlin, BA Politikwissenschaft, Seminar: Introduction to Intelligence Studies with a focus on the Middle East (zusammen mit Ali Dogan).
Workshops and Conferences
09/2022 EISA PEC Conference, Athens, "An IPS approach to Syrian intelligence (during the Cold War)." in the section New Intelligence Studies.
07/2022 International Intelligence History Association (IIHA) Conference, Akademie für Politische Bildung Tutzing, "The Syrian Mukhabarat (& the Stasi) – Practices of Surveillance and Social Control during the Cold War."
12/2021 MESA Annual Meeting [online], "The Syrian surveillance architecture and the Stasi - Do intelligence agencies learn practices of social control from each other?"
09/2021 EISA PEC Conference, Malta [online], "The Syrian field of intelligence during the Cold War and its transnational relations." in the section The Everyday Life of Intelligence.
09/2021 DAVO Kongress, University of Osnabrück, "The Syrian Mukhabarat (& the Stasi) – Practices of Surveillance and Social Control during the Cold War."
10/2020 Deutsche Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft (DVPW), Freiburg [online], "Ideology and Intelligence Relations: The case of the East German Ministry for State Security and the Syrian Mukhabarat apparatus, 1960-1990."
02/2020 Theorienworkshop der DGA-Nachwuchsgruppe, Bochum, "Theorien und Paradigmen in den Internationalen Beziehungen."
Memberships
Middle East Studies Association (MESA)
Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vorderer Orient (DAVO)
Women's Intelligence Network (WIN)
Languages
- German: native speaker
- English: full fluency (C2)
- Arabic (Modern Standard Arabic and Levantine Dialect): advanced proficiency (C1)
- French: advanced proficiency (C1)