Aarhus researcher participates in project on preventive partnership policing and the transformation of urban governance

Aarhus case study focuses on the areas surrounding City Vest, areas with high concentrations of Muslim Syrian and Palestinian refugees.

Asmaa Hassaneen is doing her PhD research on Palestinian memory, focusing on the relation between the saga genre and memory studies, and how both affect the construction and transmission of Palestinian memory.

Thomas Fibiger, specialist in contemporary Shi‘i Islam in Bahrain and Kuwait, has been appointed to an associate professorship in the Department for the Study of Religion to teach in the Arab and Islamic Studies program.

Mark Sedgwick has been elected Chair of the Nordic Association for Middle Eastern Studies

Martin Riexinger has been elected vice-president of FIFO, Forum for Islamforskning, the Danish Association for the Study of Islam

Headed by Morten Valbjørn together with Jeroen Gunning (King’s College London), and funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark.

Anne Kirstine Rønn Sørensen will be investigating social movements that seek to challenge sectarianism in the Middle East and the Balkans, focusing on the role of strategic choices.

"The Post-revolutionary condition" as a frame for understanding aesthetic strategies

Wesam Mohamed is working on "Community Participation in Protecting Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis: understanding and learning from the 'Egyptian Revolution'"