Curriculum Vitae
Education
2018-present
Doctoral candidate, Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Leipzig and Department 'Law & Anthropology', Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale
Doctoral research project: 'Daily practical life and Islamic normativity with due regard to current migrant milieus'
2010-2013
Master of Arts (M.A.) in German as a foreign language, Ain Shams University and University of Leipzig
Thesis: Stereotype in Deutschlandbildern ägyptischer DAF-Lerner. Eine qualitative-empirische Studie
2006-2010
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in German, Arabic and Islamic Studies, Al-Azhar University, Cairo (Egypt)
Teaching
Summer Semester 2021
Lecturer: Negotiating ḥalāl consumption: the interplay of legitimacy, trust, and religious authority. Berlin Institute for Islamic Theology. Humboldt University of Berlin.
Lecturer: Alkoholverbot im Islam. Center for Islamic Theology. University of Tübingen.
Summer Semester 2020
Seminar: Basiswissen Islam, Project: „Religionssensible Integrationskultur in Ostsachsen“ des TRAWOS-Institutes der Hochschule Zittau/Görlitz und der VHS Görlitz e. V.
Professional activities
2018-present
Doctoral candidate, Department 'Law & Anthropology', Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Leipzig
2017-present
Member of the editorial board of the Journal Zeitschrift für Recht und Islam / Journal of Law and Islam, Leipzig University Press
2017-present
Lecturer for language and qualified professional training at Language Coach Institute, Leipzig
2016-2017
Lecturer for integration and literacy courses at the educational institution CoP – Bildung und Integration, Leipzig
2016
Admission to teaching in integration courses by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), in accordance with § 15 IntV
2012-2016
Lecturer for German as a foreign language at the German University of Cairo (GUC)
2013-2015
Research Coordinator at the Center of Excellence for the Study and Research of German and Arabic as foreign languages (EZ-DAAF) of Ain Shams University (Egypt)
2013-2014
Staff member of the cross-university didactic working group "Blended Learning" within the framework of the German as a Foreign Language study program of the universities Ain Shams and Leipzig
Organisation of Conferences and Workshops
Online Workshop of the Working Group ‘Normativität und Islam’ of the Gesellschaft für Arabisches und Islamisches Recht (Arabic and Islamic Law Association), Halle/Saale, 03 December 2020.
Workshop of the Working Group ‘Normativität und Islam’ of the Gesellschaft für Arabisches und Islamisches Recht (Arabic and Islamic Law Association) in cooperation with Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, 29 February 2020.
Workshop of the Junges Netzwerk ‘Law and Islam’ (Network ‘Law and Islam’ of the Gesellschaft für Arabisches und Islamisches Recht (Arabic and Islamic Law Association) in cooperation with the Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies of the Georg-August University of Göttingen, 25 October 2019.
Workshop of the Working Group ‘Normativität und Islam’ of the Gesellschaft für Arabisches und Islamisches Recht (Arabic and Islamic Law Association) in cooperation with Akademie der Weltreligionen, University of Hamburg, 15 June 2019.
Participating in the organization of the Joint Conference "Islam, Law & Anthropology" of the Max Planck Institute, Department 'Law & Anthropology' in collaboration with the Gesellschaft für Arabisches und Islamisches Recht (Arabic and Islamic Law Association) and RIMO (Vereniging tot bestudering van het recht van de Islam en het Midden Oosten), Halle/Saale, 9-10 November 2018.
Presentations at Conferences and Workshops
September 2021
„Komm, setz Dich #3 - Neben-, Für-, Durcheinander - Wissenschaft trifft Religion und umgekehrt“ (Pull up a Chair #3 -Science meets Religion and vice versa),
Silbersalz 21, International Science & Media Festival, 19. September 2021, Halle (Saale), open round-table discussion with Peter Kube, pastor, Domgemeinschaft (Halle) and Semra Kizilkaya, linguist (University of Cologne)
March 2021
“Practising Sharia in a Minority Context: Ethnographic Study on Muslim Refugees in Eastern Germany”, Online Workshop “Sharia in Context”, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and University of Copenhagen
December 2020
“Negotiating Ḥalāl Consumption: The Interplay between Religious Authority, Trust and Legitimacy” (together with Leonie Stenske), Orientalisches Institut, Leipzig University
February 2020
"Außergerichtliche islamische Konfliktregulierung im deutschen Kontext: Theorie und Praxis.“, Collaborative training and research seminar on intercultural implications of asylum and aliens law cases before administrative courts, Administrative Court, Braunschweig
November 2019
Lecturer in the Working Group ‘Labour Law’ (religious holidays and accommodation at the workplace), Judicial Training “Cultural Diversity in the Courtroom – Judges in Europe Facing New Challenges” of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale and the European Judicial Training Network (EJTN), Utrecht
September 2019
Presenter of the Workshop's Group "What is going wrong with Islamic Family Law?". International Symposium "Islamic Family Law in Europe and the Islamic World", Hannover University
May 2019
"Negotiating Ḥalāl: The Issue of Trust and the Creation of Credibility: Case Study in Germany" (together with Leonie Stenske)
Workshop "Halal Economies in non-Muslim societies", Indiana University Europe Gateway, Berlin
March 2019
"Daily practical life and Islamic normativity of Muslim migrants in Germany"
PhD-Workshop of the Department 'Law & Anthropology' of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale
Januar 2019
"Alltagspragmatische Lebenswelten und islamische Normativität im Kontext muslimischer Migrantenmilieus"
Colloquium of the Erlangen Centre for Islam & Law in Europe, Erlangen
October 2018
"Halal-Infrastruktur im Spannungsfeld zwischen religiöser Doktrin, Alltagspragmatik und transnationalen Märkten" (together with Leonie Stenske)
Conference "Neue Perspektiven auf muslimische Gemeindezentren als baukulturelle Zeugnisse der deutschen Migrationsgeschichte", University of Siegen
November 2017
"Alltagspragmatische Lebenswelten und islamische Normativität im Kontext muslimischer Migrantenmilieus" (with Hatem Elliesie and Beate Backe)
III. Orientwissenschaftliches Dreiländerkolloquium der Universitäten Jena, Leipzig und Halle an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
October 2017
"Alltagspragmatische Lebenswelten und islamische Normativität im Kontext muslimischer Migrantenmilieus" (with Hatem Elliesie and Beate Backe)
Workshop of the Oriental Institute of the University of Leipzig and the Department 'Law & Anthropology' of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale
October 2015
"Kulturelle Muster im Kontext deutsch-ägyptischer Studiengänge. Eine qualitativempirische Studie zum Themenbereich 'universitäre Lehrveranstaltungen'"
2nd International Conference for Young Scientists in the Field of German Studies, Tunis
April 2014
Chair of the guest lecture "Al-muwâtana (Bürger Gleichberechtigung). Eine kritische Frage des islamisch-christlichen Dialogs"
Speaker: Dr. Muhammad Abd ar-Rahim (Al-Azhar Universität)
Institution: Ain Shams University, Cairo
Mai 2013
Chair of the guest lecture "Textfunktion und Textdidaktik am Beispiel der Textsorte 'Interpretation'"
Speaker: Dr. Siegfried Steinmann (Universität Leipzig)
Institution: Ain Shams University, Cairo
Editorial Activities
Member of the editorial board of the Journal Zeitschrift für Recht und Islam / Journal of Law and Islam [formerly GAIR-Mitteilungen], Leipzig University Press
Memberships in Academic Associations
2019 - present
Member of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (DMG), Section of Islamic Studies
2019 - present
Member of the Zentrum für Extremismusprävention (Centre for the Prevention of Extremism, Leipzig)
2019 - present
Member of the Arabic and Islamic Law Association (GAIR) working group "Islamic Finance"
2018 - present
Founding member of the GAIR working group "Junges Netzwerk Recht & Islam"
2017 - present
Member of the Arabic and Islamic Law Association (Gesellschaft für Arabisches und Islamisches Recht / جمعية دراسات الشريعة الإسلامية وقوانين البلاد العربية)
2017 - present
Member of the German Middle East Studies Association for Contemporary Research and Documentation (Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vorderer Orient, DAVO)
Languages
Arabic (mother tongue)
German (fluent)
English (fluent)