Contributors
- Contributors
Bettina Dennerlein teaches Gender Studies and Islamic Studies at the University of Zurich. She has studied in Berlin and Cairo. Before moving to Zurich Dennerlein has done research and taught in academic institutions in Berlin, Jerusalem, Paris, and Hamburg. She has published on questions of Islamic family law and reform movements in North Africa in German, French, and English. With E. Frietsch, Dennerlein co-edited Identitäten in Bewegung. Migration im Film (transcript, 2011). With D. Reetz, she was guest editor of South-South Linkages in Islam, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 27: 1 (Duke University Press, 2007). Dennerlein is the author of Islamisches Recht und sozialer Wandel in Algerien. Zur Entwicklung des Personalstatuts seit 1962 (Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1998).
Andrea Fischer-Tahir studied Arabic Studies, Social Anthropology and the History of Religions at the University of Leipzig. Her research focuses on Iraqi Kurdistan and the Iraq, and her research interests include issues of identity, memory, gender, urban-rural dynamics, and knowledge production. Her Ph.D. thesis on resistance and the making of collective identity in Iraqi Kurdistan was published in 2003 by the European Centre for Kurdish Studies in Berlin. Her monograph, Brave men, pretty women? Gender and symbolic violence in Kurdish urban society (2009) was translated into Kurdish and published in Sulaimaniya in 2011. In Iraqi Kurdistan, Fischer-Tahir worked in the sector of higher education with civil society groups and the media. Her current research project deals with knowledge circulation, identity politics, and the press in Iraq since 2003. [End Page 140]
Sonja Hegasy is Vice-Director of Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin, having joined the organization as a Research Fellow in 2008. She also serves as Head of the Advisory Board 'Science and Current Events' of the Goethe-Institute in Munich. Hegasy's research interests include civil society and youth movements, politics of memory, world society, and cultural globalization, with a regional focus on Morocco and Egypt. From 1996 to 1998, she served as a Junior Expert at the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation in Cairo. Prior to that, she worked as Program Officer at Transparency International e.V. She is also a founding member of 'Transparence Maroc'. Hegasy studied Arabic at the American University in Cairo and Middle East Languages and Cultures the University of Witten/Herdecke. She received her M.A. from Columbia University. In 1996, she published her Ph.D. thesis on "State, Public Sphere and Civil Society in Morocco."
Sune Haugbolle is Assistant Professor in Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies at the Department for Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen. He received a D.Phil. in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Oxford in 2006. Haugbolle's work deals with social memory, media, and politics in the modern Middle East. He is the author of War and Memory in Lebanon (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and has co-edited the volume The Politics of Violence, Truth and Reconciliation in the Arab Middle East (Routledge, 2009), as well as a forthcoming volume entitled Visual Culture in the Modern Middle East: Rhetoric of the Image (Indiana University Press, 2012). Haugbolle's articles have appeared in a variety of journals including Arab Studies Journal, Contemporary Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and Arab Media and Society, for which he is a contributing editor. He is currently working on a project about ideology and the Arab Left.
Karin Mlodoch is psychologist and research fellow at the Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin with a research project on "Violence, Memory and Dealing with the Past in Iraq: The perspective on women Anfal survivors in Kurdistan". She is currently preparing her Ph.D. at the Institute of Social Psychology, Ethnopsychoanalysis, and Psychotraumatology at the University of Klagenfurt in Austria. Mlodoch is also a [End Page 141] founding member and project coordinator of the German-based non-governmental organization, HAUKARI e.V., supporting psychosocial and empowerment projects for women in Iraq. She draws on extensive field work with women Anfal survivors in Kurdistan-Iraq since 1991, as well as on experiences in development projects in Afghanistan and Southern Africa.
Susan Slyomovics is Professor of Anthropology and Near Eastern...
