About

In 2012 I co-founded the peer-reviewed OA-Journal: Middle East – Topics & Arguments, https://meta-journal.net. Since then I have organized and facilitated debates and workshops on scholarly communication and knowledge production. I am interested in strategies of postcolonial and radical Open Access. Since September 2020 I am working as Open Access Officer at Open-Access-Büro Berlin, researching how knowledge equity is performed in science communication and how Open Access is implemented through policies. Before I was a research fellow at the CNMS, the Centre for Near and Middle Eastern Studies at University Marburg, between 2011 and 2020. My background is in Sociology, Islamic Studies, and Philosophy (MA, University Hamburg) and in the field of library work (CNMS, Marburg; FU Berlin). In my research (PhD, JLU, Gießen), I explore the social dimension of affect and emotion by looking at social practices of the Self in relation to experiences of crisis and uncertainty in Beirut‘s middle class, with a focus on Sufism as aesthetic and social imaginary.