Prof. Dr. Ulrike Freitag

• 1987
  Magister Artium degree (MA) Thesis on the French Mandate in Syria
  
  

• 1987 – 1991
  Doctoral studies (history, Islamic studies: Arabic-Turkish, modern German literature) in Freiburg, research on Syrian historiography, 1920 – 1990. Visiting researcher in Damascus for several months during 1987 and 1990
  
  

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• 1991
  Staff researcher in non-European history, FernUniversität (distance learning university) in Hagen, Germany, in the research group of Prof. Osterhammel
  
  

• 1992 – 1993
  Research on Yemeni migration in the vicinity of the Indian Ocean (19th/20th century) in London
  
  

• 1993 – 2002
  Lecturer in modern history of the Near and Middle East, Department of History, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
  
  

• 1996 – 1997
  One-year sabbatical to conduct research in Hadhramaut and Southeast Asia (Singapore, Java)
  
  

• 1999 – 2000
  Fellowship, Historisches Kolleg, Munich (leave of absence from SOAS)
  
  

• 2000 – 2001
  Habilitation (postdoctoral) fellowship from the German Research Foundation (leave of absence from SOAS)
  
  

• since 2002
  Director, Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin, in conjunction with an "S" professorship in Islamic studies, Freie Universität (FU) Berlin
  
  

• Spaces of Participation: Topographies of Political and Social Change in Morocco, Egypt and Palestine, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, since 2014

• Phantom borders in Eastern Central Europe, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), since 2011

• Urban Violence in the Middle East: Between Empire and Nation State, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the British Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), 2011 – 2014

• Member of the advisory board to the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin – Institute for Advanced Study

• Member of the International Advisory Council of the World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES)

• Member of the governing council for the research programme "Europe in the Middle East—the Middle East in Europe" (EUME) at the Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin

• Member of the advisory board to the Amsterdam Centre for Middle Eastern Studies (ACMES)

• Member of the advisory board for the project "Elite Change and New Social Mobilization in the Arab World", German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP)

• Member of the research advisory board of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP)

• Member of the board, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin

• Deputy chairperson of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities board of enquiry for ensuring good scientific practice

• Co-editor: Journal of Arabian Studies, London

• Co-editor: Journal of Global History, Cambridge

• Co-editor: Geschichte und Gesellschaft (Science and Society)

  Editor: ZMO Studien (ZMO (Zentrum Moderner Orient) Studies)

• Co-editor: SOAS/Routledge/Curzon Studies on the Middle East

• (with Nushin Atmaca): Innenpolitische und gesellschaftliche Herausforderungen (Challenges in domestic policy and society), in: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte (APuZ) Saudi-Arabien, 64(46), 2014, 12-18 http://www.bpb.de/apuz/194431/innenpolitische-und-gesellschaftliche-herausforderungen?p=all

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