Global knowledge production

Global conceptual debates in the fields of sociology and philosophy (with a particular emphasis on the various calls for the "decolonization", "indigenization" or "Islamization" of these disciplines)

Intellectual entanglements between Europe and the Arab World

• Orientalism, Occidentalism, and the politics of imagining the "other"
• History of sociology in the Arab world
• Scholarly engagements with "postmodernity" and "postmodernism" in the Arab world 

Modern Arab thought

• Modern and contemporary intellectual debates in the Arab world
• History of socialism, communism, and Marxism in the Arab world
• History of "postmodern" and "postcolonial" thought in the Arab world

Since December 2019: Assistant for European Global Studies at the Institute for European Global Studies, University of Basel

2016-2019: Student assistant at the Office for Diversity, University of Basel

2014-2019: M.A. in Sociology and Near and Middle Eastern Studies (University of Basel), title of master thesis: «Soziologie in arabischen Ländern: Einblicke in die Geschichte und Gegenwart einer Disziplin»

2013-2016: Student Assistant at Near and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Basel

2009-2014: B.A. in Sociology and Near and Middle Eastern Studies (“Islamwissenschaft”) (University of Basel), title of bachelor thesis: “Von der Zukünftigkeit der Gegenwart zur Gegenwärtigkeit der Zukunft: Eine Analyse der Zeitvorstellungen Paul Virilios”