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Dr. Marc Aymes
studied history at Paris 1 University and modern Turkish at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales in Paris, along with social anthropology and Arabic at the École Normale Supérieure. In 2005 he completed his Ph.D. in history from Aix-Marseille 1 University, with a thesis entitled L'Accent de la province. Une histoire des rèformes Ottomanes è Chypre au XIXe siècle (forthcoming from Peeters Publishers, Paris & Leuven). Marc Aymes has been an associate member of the Etudes Turques et Ottomanes research team in Paris (CNRS and EHESS), a co-editor of the journal 'Labyrinthe. Atelier interdisciplinaire' (www.revuelabyrinthe.org), and a member of the editorial board of the European 'Journal of Turkish Studies' (www.ejts.org). During his fellowship in Berlin he is working on a research project entitled: Provincial Worlds: Administration, Sociabilities and Languages in the late Ottoman Empire.
For more information please check his website: http://marc.aymes.free.fr
Dr. Tamim al-Barghouti
is a Palestinian poet and political scientist. He studied political science at Cairo University, the American University in Cairo, and Boston University where he received his Ph.D. in 2004. Dr. Al-Barghouti worked at the United Nations, the Division of Palestinian Rights, the Department of Political Affairs in New York and with the Mission in Sudan. He also is a well known Poet and has four published poetry collections in Arabic: Maqam Iraq (Dar Atlas, Cairo 2005), Qaluli li Bethebb Masr (Dar el-Shorouk, Cairo 2002), Al-Manzar (Dar el-Shorouk, Cairo 1999), and Mijana (Palestinian House of Poetry, Ramallah 1999). Two scholarly publications, Benign Nationalism: The Wafd and State building in the Shadow of Colonialism (in Arabic) and The Impossible Compromise in the Middle East (in English) are forthcoming. In Berlin, Dr. Barghouti will work on a comparative history of concepts by addressing the notions of Nation and State in relation to the Arabic concepts of 'Umma' and 'Dawla'. For more information please visit his website: http://tamimbarghouti.net.
Dr. Mohammed Sabri ad-Dali
is Assistant Professor of Modern History at Helwan University, Egypt. He was educated at the Universities of Mansura and Asyut, has been a researcher at the Institute of Oriental Culture at Tokyo University, and received his Ph.D. from Helwan University with a thesis on The European Powers and the Ottoman-Russian Struggle over the Black Sea. His research interest is focused on the intellectual history of Egypt during Ottoman times. Dr. ad-Dali is an active member of the Egyptian Historical Society. Among his publications (mostly in Arabic) are: The Role of Sufism in Egyptian History during the Ottoman Period (Cairo 1994), The Zawiya and Egyptian Society in the 16th Century (Tokyo 2000), The Ulema' and the Ottoman Occupation of Egypt (Tokyo 2001), Ottoman Historical Research in Egypt since 1936 (in English, Tokyo 2001), The Political Discourse of Sufism in Egypt (Cairo 2004), Modern Russia and Russians in Egyptian Historical Works (Cairo 2006). During his fellowship in Berlin Dr. ad-Dali will deal with representations of Europeans in Egypt from the 18th to the early 20th Centuries.
Dr. Nashwa Salah El-Din
is a lecturer of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at Ain Shams University, Cairo. She studied Philosophy at Cairo and Ain Shams Universities and received her Ph.D. with a dissertation on The Postmodern Kantianism of Lyotard in 2006. Among her publications are books on the Philosophy of History in the 20th Century (in Arabic, Cairo 2007), and The Problem of Power in Contemporary Philosophy (in Arabic, Cairo 2007). Her new project deals with the question of Terrorism and the Other: A Critical Analysis of the Intellectual Mechanisms that Legitimate Contemporary Islamic Thought of Terrorism.
Dr. Gergana Georgieva
is an Ottoman Historian and works as a researcher at the Institute of Balkan Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia. She did her MA in Medieval Studies from the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, and another MA degree in History from the University SS Cyril and Methodius from Turnovo University, Bulgaria. She received her PhD with a dissertation entitled Administrative Structure and Government in Rumelia during Sultan Mahmoud II's Reign, 1808-1839. Dr. Georgieva has been visiting researcher at the Universities of Heidelberg, Ankara (Bilkent), and a fellow of the New Europe College in Bucharest. She has published numerous articles on the Ottoman History of the Balkans. A book based on her PhD thesis is forthcoming and will be published with the University of Crete Press. During her fellowship in Berlin she will work on the theme Who Made What? Who Controlled Whom? – Stratification of Sofia's Urban Governance in the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries.
Dr. Magdi Guirguis
received his Ph.D. from the Faculty of Arts at Cairo University for his thesis entitled Individual Documents at the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate - an Archival and Diplomatic Study. He is a member of the Egyptian Historical Society and of the editorial board of 'Ruzname: The Egyptian Documentary Annual'. He is working as a document specialist at Cairo University. Dr. Guirguis has been a Georg-Graf Fellow of the Catholic Academic Exchange Service in 2006, a fellow of Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe in Spring 2007 and a distinguished visiting professor of Coptic Studies at the American University in Cairo for the Fall Term 2007. Dr. Guirguis has widely published on Egyptian Ottoman History with a particular emphasis on the social history of the Copts of Egypt. Among his publications is a 1999 volume on The Coptic Judiciary in Egypt and (together with Nelly van Doorn-Harder) the third volume of The Popes of Egypt: A History of the Coptic Church and Its Patriarchs under the title The Emergence of the Modern Coptic Papacy. Another study on An Armenian Artist in Ottoman Cairo: Yuhanna Al-Armani and his Coptic Icons is forthcoming. In Berlin Dr. Guirguis will continue working on a project on the Copts and the West during the 18th Century.
Dr. Fatma Kassem
is a lecturer at the Department of Behavioral Science at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev where she recently completed her PhD with a dissertation on Deconstructing and Reshaping Identity among Young Bedouin Women (publication forthcoming in Hebrew and English). Dr. Kassem's research interest is focused on gender, education, public health and memory. Among her publications are articles on Women's health custom made (2000), Knowledge, Action and Resistance: The selective use of pre-natal screening among Bedouin Women of the Negev (2001), or Theory and Criticism: Urban Palestinian Women narrating the naqba (2006). A book manuscript under the title Allah, al-Mlik, al-Watan – The sacred Triangle: Women's Images in Jordanian Textbooks is forthcoming. Dr. Kassem has been engaged in conflict resolution training and projects. Together with Dan Bar On of Ben-Gurion University, she has been a co-facilitator for a project of a group of Jewish and Palestinian Israeli students called Co-existence Through Life Story Narrative. She has also served as coordinator for the project Two Conflicts, Four Countries that involved university teachers of History from Turkey, Greece, Palestine and Israel. Currently she is the co-facilitator of a group of Jewish and Palestinian women from Jerusalem called Jerusalem Women as Catalysts for Peace. During the Academic Year 2007/08 Dr. Kassem will work on a study that explores the different kinds of violence Arab women in Israel experience: emotional, mental, physical and sexual.
Dr. Mohammed Tabishat
is an anthropologist and Assistant Professor at the United Arab Emirates University in Al-Ain. Dr. Tabishat was educated at the Universities of Yarmouk and Irbid (both in Jordan). From 1993 – 1995 he studied with Talal Asad at the New School for Social Research in New York and received his PhD in Social Anthropology with a dissertation entitled Persons, Bodies and Organs: Living and Debating the Morality of Medical Care in Modern Cairo from the University of Cambridge, England in 2002. He taught Anthropology at Dickinson College, Arabic at the Universities of Fordham, New York and Columbia. His research interest is focused on medical Anthropology. Among his publications are (2000) Al-daght: Pressures of Modern Life in Cairo, in: Situating Globalization: Views from Egypt. Cynthia Nelson and Shahnaz Rouse (eds.); (1999) On Medical Anthropology, Research and Research Priorities: Notes from Cairo, in: Social Science in Egypt: Emerging Voices. Seteney Shami and Linda Herrera (eds.). His monograph After the Body: Debating the Legal and Moral Aspects of Organ Transplantation in Egypt 1995-1997 is forthcoming. In Berlin Dr. Tabishat will work on a project on The Body in Europe and Islam.
Dr. Roxanne Varzi
is a social and cultural anthropologist. She was awarded the first Fulbright fellowship after the Revolution for research in Iran (2000). She received her PhD in anthropology from Columbia University and has taught at New York University, the University of London (School of Oriental and African Studies) and was a senior visiting Fellow at St Anthony's College Oxford. She is currently an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of California Irvine. She is the author of Warring Souls, Media, Martyrdom and Youth in post-Revolution Iran, Duke University Press, 2006. She has published widely on Iranian popular culture, the culture of the Iran-Iraq war and Iranian cinema. Her work has appeared in the London Review of Books, The New York Press, Eastern Art Report, American Anthropologist and Public Culture Journal. She has also published short stories (she won the Society for Anthropology and Humanism fiction Award in 2007) and her first ethnographic experimental film on mourning and martyrdom in Iran, Plastic Flowers Never Die, was completed in June 2007. In Berlin Dr. Varzi will work on Postrevolutionary Iranian Productions of Art and Culture.
Dr. Sherif Younis
is an Egyptian academic, translator and social activist. He is a lecturer of Egyptian and European modern history at Helwan University, Egypt. He has studied history at Ain Shams University, and graduated with an MA thesis on Sayyid Qutb and his Influence on Political Thought in Egypt in 1993. He received his Ph.D. with a dissertation on the Ideological Developments in Egypt 1954- 1967 from Helwan University. His published books (all in Arabic) include Sayyid Qutb and Islamic Fundamentalism (1995), The Question of Identity: Identity and the Authority of the Intellectual in the Postmodern Era (1999), The Sacred March: the June 1967 Demonstrations and the Formation of the Cult of Nasser (2005). Another book, based on his dissertation is forthcoming with the title No Man's Regime: The Ideological Re-Formation of Egypt under the 1952 Coup. Dr. Younis has translated a number of academic books from English into Arabic, like Khaled Fahmy's All the Pasha's Men and Medicine and Law, Roel Meijer's The Quest for Modernity: Secular, Liberal and Left-Wing Political Thought in Egypt or Zachary Lockman's Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism. Dr. Younis is a frequent contributor to public debates on modern intellectual history, philosophy and political issues. His articles have been published by various Newspapers and Journals such as akhbar al-adab, sutur, al-masry al-yawm, ad-dimuqratiyya, al-hayat, or al-kitaba al-ukhra. Dr. Younis is the co-editor of Al-bosla, an independent journal of the democratic left in Egypt. During his stay in Berlin he will continue his research on ideology and political thought with a project on the Concept of Identity in Political Thought in Post-Colonial Egypt.
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