Institutets Resident Scholar -program ger forskare möjlighet att fortsätta sin akademiska forskning. Programmet, som lanserades våren 2021, är avsett för libaneser och forskare som arbetar i Libanon. Under residenset kan forskaren bedriva egen akademisk forskning utan administrativa skyldigheter som fullvärdig medlem i FIME:s lilla kollegiala arbetsgemenskap i Beirut. Forskaren får en egen arbetsyta och tillgång till andra resurser som FIME erbjuder sin personal, såsom ett litet bibliotek, teknisk utrustning och ett seminarierum. Utöver sin egen forskning anordnar Resident Scholar ett evenemang riktat till akademiker och/eller allmänheten (t.ex. ett litet kulturellt eller akademiskt evenemang, en artikel som populariserar den egna forskningen eller en podcast).
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Nuvarande Resident Scholar
Sana Tannoury-Karam (2024)
Sana Tannoury-Karam är FIMEs resident scholar. Tannoury-Karam är biträdande professor i historia vid Lebanese American University (LAU) och historiker av det moderna Mellanöstern och global historia. Hon arbetar med den politiska vänsterns historia, teman om internationalism och nationalism, de intellektuellas sociologi och den arabiska Mellanösterns intellektuella och sociala historia. Tannoury-Karam är också intresserad av teman som minne och glömska, exil och tillhörighet.
För närvarande arbetar hon på en bok som skildrar den politiska organisationen och aktivismen hos en grupp arabiska marxister som förespråkade social rättvisa, arbetarklassens internationella solidaritet, kapitalismens missförhållanden, allmän rösträtt och förening av klasskamp och anti-imperialistisk kamp.
Tidigare Resident Scholars
Mariam Al Hasbani (2023)
Mariam Al Hasbani is a researcher and faculty member at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the University of Balamand in Lebanon. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from the Lebanese University in 2019, where her doctoral research delved into “The Interrelationship between Gender and Lebanese Social Scientists’ Educational Migration Determinants and Effects on Employment in Academia”. Al Hasbani worked at various universities in Lebanon, including the Lebanese American University and the American University of Beirut. Throughout her career, she has led and collaborated on numerous research projects alongside interdisciplinary teams of researchers. She has also undertaken research residencies at distinguished institutions such as the Center for Population and Development and Aix-Marseille University in France, and participated in many local, regional and international conferences and seminars. Her research interests include, but not limited to the following areas; sociology of education, academic mobility, gender and migration studies.
Dima Smaira (2022)
Dr Dima Smaira is a part-time lecturer at the Political Studies and Public Administration Department at the American University of Beirut (AUB) and an independent researcher. She was a post-Doctoral Research Associate at Durham University’s Geography Department and a Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London. Smaira is interested in the spatial and everyday turns in International Relations and Peace & Conflict Studies. She uses both traditional qualitative and participatory ethnographic methods, including digital storytelling and mapping. Her research is looking into youth and citizenship in deeply divided societies and on everyday peace and security in Lebanon, particularly across Beirut’s Southern Suburbs (known as Dahiyeh). Smaira is also a member of Khaddit Beirut (Beirut Shake-up), an initiative for reform and recovery launched following the Beirut 2020 port explosion.
Vana Kalenderian (2021)
Vana Kalenderian is an osteoarchaeologist who studies ancient mortuary practices in the Near East, with a focus on Roman Lebanon. Kalenderian has been involved in multiple excavation projects both in Lebanon and abroad. She continues to work closely with the Lebanese archaeology teams under the jurisdiction of the Lebanese Directorate General of Antiquities. In addition to field work, Kalenderian is passionate about advancing local archaeological research and public outreach in Lebanon, and more broadly in the Middle East.
In addition to the archaeological sciences and exploring ancient health and lifestyles, her research interests include themes of imperialism and colonialism; migration and mobility; sociocultural change; expressions of individual and group identity; and ancient rituals and belief systems. Kalenderian also runs a history and archaeology blog where she publishes articles aimed towards general audiences.
Rima Majed (2021)
Rima Majed is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies Department at the American University of Beirut (AUB). Her work focuses on the fields of social inequality, social movements, sectarianism, conflict, and violence. Majed has completed her PhD at the University of Oxford where she conducted her research on the relationship between structural changes, social mobilisation, and sectarianism in Lebanon. She was a visiting fellow at the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice at Princeton University in 2018/19.
Majed is the author of numerous articles and op-eds. Her work has appeared in several journals, books and media platforms such as Social Forces, Mobilization, Routledge Handbook on the Politics of the Middle East, Middle East Law and Governance Journal, Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East, Global Dialogue, Idafat: The Arab Journal of Sociology, Al Jumhuriya, OpenDemocracy, Jacobin, Middle East Eye, CNN and Al Jazeera English.
