Anthropological and sociological perspectives on donor-funded peacebuilding, humanitarian and development aid and transitional justice in Sub-Saharan Africa; Dislocating research perspectives, bringing the Global North and South into symmetric/comparable frames; Post- and decolonial theory and approaches; Neoliberalism, development, and human rights; Feminisms; Knowledge production; Activism and professionalization; Global Health; Violence, (in)security, dangerousness
Culture and politics of the Arab countries; Political systems in the Middle East; Islamism and religious social movement; Democracy Research: Social Movements, Civil Society, New Media, Internet and Transition Processes in the Middle East; Gender Studies, especially Women in Arab and Muslim Societies, Women's Movement in the Arab World, Islamic Feminism Cultural Transformation in Arab Countries; Christian-Muslim dialogue
