Welcome to my personal website

I am a social anthropologist researching revolutionary politics and subjects, religious imagination and migratory aspirations with a special focus on Syria and Turkey. In my current project (labEx HaStec) I study the role of predestination and the figure of the martyr in the Syrian revolution and migration. During my previous fellowships I explored the genealogy of non-violence in Syria focusing on the Darayya local council and Abdelakram al Saqqa’s halaqa; and I examined the disputed concept of hospitality and Syrians’ guest status in Turkey (forth.).

In my doctoral thesis within the ERC Comparative Anthropology of Revolutionary Politics (CARP) I developed a project on the Syria revolution in displacement (UCL, 2019). This is the basis of my monograph ‘Waiting for the Revolution to End: Syrian displacement, time, subjectivity’ in which I analyse how the concept of ‘revolution’ is redefined by the Syrian experience, understanding it as a multi-dimensional and multi-scalar phenomenon that affected Syrians’ lifeworld in all its layers.

My previous research on perspectivism and shamanism and the intermingling between things religious and political was based on fieldwork in Gornaya Shorya (Siberia). This was the topic of my MSc thesis in social and cultural anthropology (UCL, 2013). In my research masters in philosophy within the Erasmus Mundus ‘Europhilosophie’ programme in Brazil and Europe (2010-2012) I explored the relation between contemporary philosophy and anthropology as opening the possibility for decolonial and feminist practices and theories.

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