My research concerns the field of political anthropology with a particular emphasis on processes of both radical and moderate political change as these are lived by the people entangled with them. With a specific focus on Syria and Syrian refugees in neighbouring countries, I have investigated such processes both before and in the aftermath of the 2011 uprising. 

I am currently an associated researcher at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin, where I investigate how Syrians in Germany and Denmark activate and act from memories of Syria as they navigate in relation to host authorities. My research and stay in Berlin is funded through a Carlsberg Foundation internationalisation fellowship.

I was previously a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen and with the collaborative research project Viable Futures: Near and Long Term Prospects among Syrian Youth in Jordan. The project examined the perceptions Syrian youth in Jordan held of their social, economic and political situation and investigated when and how these perceptions inflected the abilities of Syrian youths to envision, plan for and act towards viable futures. The project was funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation.

My PhD explored how authoritarian state-subject relations travelled with and were reproduced among Syrians of a variety of political persuasions living in Turkey and Lebanon (in 2014-15). My thesis focuses particularly on the intimate everyday practices that made it difficult for many Syrians to renounce the regime completely. 

Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, processes of political and social change, authoritarianism, conflict, refuge, temporality, kinship, gender.

- Cultural analysis

- Migration

- Political culture

- Processes of social and political change