Sonja Hegasy

Sonja Hegasy (* 1967 in Leverkusen ) is a German scholar of Islam and deputy director of the Center for the Modern Orient .

Life

She completed her studies in Islamic Studies in Cairo , Bochum , New York and at the University of Witten / Herdecke and received her doctorate in 1996 from the Department of Political Science at the Free University of Berlin . Until 1998 she worked as a junior expert at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Cairo. First employed as a research assistant at the Center for the Modern Orient in Berlin, from 2008 she became its deputy director and chair of the “Science and Current Affairs” advisory board of the Goethe Institute in Munich.

Works

• Popular diplomacy . In: Foreign Office (ed.): Dialogue with the Islamic World. Berlin (pp. 22-30).
• Young Authority: Quantitative and Qualitative Insights into Youth, Youth Culture, and State Power in Contemporary Morocco . In: The Journal of North African Studies , Volume 12, Issue 1 March 2007, (pp. 19-36).
• Changing Values ​​among Youth . Examples from the Arab World and Germany (ed. With Elke Kaschl), Berlin: ZMO-Studien, 2007
• State, public and civil society in Morocco : The potentials of the socio-cultural opposition (politics, economy and society of the Middle East) ISBN 3891730454

Web links

• Dr. Sonja Hegasy. In: Website of the Center for Modern Orient. Retrieved February 3, 2012 (list of their publications). 
• "Much more aggressive mood". Stadium disaster in Egypt. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . Retrieved on February 3, 2012 (interview with Hegasy on the state of the revolution in Egypt in 2011 ).