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Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV) |
| NATIONALITY | |
| German | |
| RESEARCH FOCUS | |
| PhD project: ‘The Secondary Forced Displacement of Palestinian Refugees- A Case Apart?’ (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Heintze) |
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| RESEARCH INTERESTS | |
| Legal Geography International Human Rights Law International Refugee Law Middle Eastern Studies |
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| EDUCATION | |
| Since 2015 2011-2012 2007-2011 |
PhD student at the Institute for Development Research and Development Policy (IEE) and member of the Graduate Center for Development Studies (UA Ruhr GC), Ruhr University Bochum (Germany) Master of Science (MSc) in Human Rights at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (United Kingdom) Bachelor of Arts (BA) in African Development Studies in Geography with a minor in Law at the University of Bayreuth (Germany) |
| AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS & GRANTS | |
| Since 09/2017 | PhD Scholarship Hans Böckler Foundation |
| Since 04/2016 | Research scholarship ‘International Realization Budget’ (IRB), RUB Research School Plus |
| RESEARCH STAYS | |
| Trinity Term 2017 | Visiting Study Fellow, University of Oxford, Refugee Studies Centre |
| 11/2013 – 11/2014 | Research Fellow, American University in Cairo, Center for Migration and Refugee Studies |
| CONFERENCES & PANELS | |
| 09/2016 06/2016 04/2016 07/2015 06/2014 |
Panel Convenor (together with Raffael Beier and Loubna Abi Khalil) ‘The regional politics of forced displacement in the Middle East’ at the Development Studies Association Conference, University of Oxford 12 September 2016 Panel Presentation ‘Uniquely Protected or Uniquely Protracted? The recent displacement of Palestinian Refugees from Syria’ at the Conference of the International Studies Association (Human Rights Section), Fordham University New York, 14 June 2016 Panel Presentation ‘The Protection of Palestinian Refugees from Syria in Lebanon and Jordan’ at the Socio-Legal Studies Organisation Annual Conference, Lancaster University, 06 April 2016 Panel Presentation ‘Arab Host Countries and Palestinian Refugees: Utilizing Collective Language for Exclusionary Purpose’ 7th International Conference of Critical Geography, Ramallah Palestine, 28 July 2015 Panel Presentation ‘The Situation of Refugees in Post-Morsi Egypt’ 21st New Faces Conference German Council of Foreign Relations, Tunis, Tunisia, 21 June 2014 |
| PUBLICATIONS | |
| 2017 2014 2014 2013 2013 |
(with Raffael Beier) Refugees and the City: UN-Habitat’s New Urban Agenda. In: Forced Migration Review 55, pp. 29-30 (June 2017) Challenging the International Framework for Palestinian Refugees in light of the Syria Crisis. Al Majdal No 56, BADIL (December 2014) [extract] Displacing the Displaced: Challenging the International Framework for Palestinian Refugees in light of the Syria Crisis. Cairo Studies on Migration and Refugees No 8, American University in Cairo (October 2014) Egypt's Others. Sada, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (November 2013) [op-ed] Arabische Brüderlichekeit im Widerstreit. Zenith Online (October 2013) [op-ed] |
| LANGUAGE SKILLS | |
| German (mother tongue) English (fluent) Arabic (beginner) |
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