CV
Academic Positions
| May 2024-October 2024 | Research Associate at the Professorship for Transregional Cultures of Knowledge (during research sabbatical of Dr. Siarhei Bohdan) |
| 2019-2023 | Project Coordinator, DAAD University Cooperation Project between University of Regensburg, University of Baghdad, and al-Nahrain University (Baghdad, Iraq) |
| Since 2021 | Visiting Lecturer (Lehrbeauftragter), University of Göttingen |
| 2010-2016 | English and Arabic Language Instructor, University of Balamand (Balamand, Lebanon) |
| 2011-2016 | Instructor, Notre Dame University (Zouk Mosbeh, Lebanon) |
Academic Training
| 2016-2022 | Doctorate in Arabic Studies (summa cum laude), University of Münster. Title of Dissertation: "New Explorations in Trauma and the Lebanese War Novel: Labyrinthine Ruins, Invisible Disappeared, and Impossible Testimonies in Rabee Jaber’s Fiction" Member of the Graduiertenkolleg Research Group "Literarische Form. Geschichte und Kultur ästhetischer Modellbildung" |
| 2017-2022 | Member of the SNSF Research Group "Dissonant Narratives: Post-Conflict Literature and Archives," University of Zürich |
| 2010 | CELTA (A Cambridge Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults) |
| 2010 | M.A. in Comparative Literature, University of Balamand (Balamand, Lebanon) |
| 2003 | B.A. and T.D. in English Language and Literature, Lebanese University (Beirut, Lebanon) |
Research
Research Interests
- Lebanese History and Culture: The Lebanese Civil Wars, Beirut’s Reconstruction, and The Lebanese Revolutions
- The History of the War Disappeared in the Arabic World
- Trauma Testimony in Arabic-Speaking Contexts (Lebanon and Iraq)
- History of ISIS in Northern Iraq and Syria
- Secular and Religious Discourses During and After the Arab Spring
- Knowledge Production and Exchange Between the West and the Arab World
- Trauma Theory and War Memories in Arabic Publications
- History of the Middle East in the 20th and 21st Centuries
- European-Arab Relations in Political and Cultural Transitions
- Religion and the State in Europe and the Arab World
Teaching
Summer Semester 2024
- Middle Eastern Revolutions, European Interventions: Politics, Culture and History (1919-2011)
Cooperation
- UR Fellows Program for Early Career Researchers (Funding for Research Project "Writing a 'History Without Documents': Using Literary and Creative Sources to Write the History of Post-Conflict Societies) (with Prof. Dr. Timothy Nunan)
