since 2023
Academic Programme Manager and Associate director at MESH and founding member/coordinator of the Research Lab Mediterranean Liminalities

2020
Doctoral Thesis: "Decolonizing the Arabian Horse - The Breeding, Circulation and Certification of the Straight Egyptian Arabian in the 21st Century"

since 2019
Speaker of the GAA Mediterranean Regional Group

since 2018
Lecturer at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the UoC.

2014 – 2018
Doctoral Researcher at the Research Lab "Transformations of Life" of the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne.

2004–2011
Social Anthropology and Middle East Studies at the University of Leipzig

• Social Anthropology of the Mediterranean & Middle East
• Multispecies-ethnography/ more-than-human anthropology
• Science and Technology Studies (STS)
• Mobility and nomadic studies, critical orientalism & heritage studies
• Media anthropology, histories of sociotechnical entanglements

The project conceptualizes the Mediterranean as »Critical Zones« to ethnographically explore more-than-human ontologies and multispecies histories of Egypt and Lebanon that focus on the poetics and politics of living and dying in the ruins of a failed/damaged state/Earth while remaining radically hopeful. The project aims to contribute to an environmental anthropology of (failed) states and provide a crucial ethnographic substantiation for a range of hotly debated issues in the field of the environmental humanities by experimenting with collaborative ethnographic methodologies to explore more-than-human entanglements and multispecies histories in the Mediterranean and MENA region.

More details here:

https://mediterranean.uni-koeln.de/projects/mediterranean-critical-zones