VITA
Academic career
- 01/2012-02/2018 Doctorate in Political Science - University of Augsburg, Germany
Doctoral thesis: “Intercultural Dialogue among Western and Muslim Countries – An Analysis of Foreign Cultural Policy of Iran and Germany from 1998 to 2013” - 09/2006-03/2009 Studies of North American Studies - Cultural Studies (Master of Arts) at the University of Tehran, Iran
Master's thesis: Media Studies - 09/2001-04/2006 Social Communication/Journalism (Bachelor of Arts) at the University of Tehran, Iran
Work experience
- since 06/2022 Academic Researcher
Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies - 01/2020-01/2022 Visiting Scientist and Project Manager
Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), Islamabad, Pakistan - 02/2020-02/2022 Visiting lecturer
Quaid-i-Azam University, School of Politics and International Relations (SPIR), Islamabad, Pakistan - 09/2018-2019 Project consultant
Project "(Flucht-)Migration und Sozialpolitik"
Institute for Work, Skills and Training (IAQ), University of Duisburg-Essen (freelance), Germany - since 08/2018 Corresponding Researcher on Intercultural Dialogue
Center for Intercultural Dialogue, Washington, DC, USA - 09/2018-08/2019 Freelance language mediator
Municipal Integration Center Duisburg - Farsi/English/German - 10/2009-10/2010 Lecturer in Mass Communication, Advertising, Methodology in Social Science
University of Technology and Economics, Tehran, Iran - 05/2009-09/2009 Academic Researcher
North American Studies Institute, Faculty of World Studies, University of Tehran, Iran
04/2009-01/2010 Media, Research and Education Department of Hamshahri (Newspaper and Magazine) - 09/2009–01/2011 English Teacher
Institute Kish Air, Iran - 04/2003-06/2009 Freelance Journalist
Newspapers & Magazines: Etemad Melli, Sarmaye, Shargh, Donia-ye Zanan, Eqtesad-e Iran , Barg-e Farhang
Linguistic proficiency
- English (very good)
- German (good)
- Farsi (very good)
- Gilaki (very good)
- Arabic (fundamental knowledge)
- Urdu/Hindi (fundamental knowledge)
Scholarships and Awards
- 05/2021 Diversity Research Award 2021
Research Team within the Junior Research Group Migration and Social Policy
Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Duisburg-Essen - 01/2012-12/2016 Doctoral Scholarship Brot für die Welt (Bread for the World)
Relief organization of the Protestant regional churches and free churches in Germany - 12/2014 Best Journalist Award Bonn International Model United Nations (BIMUN)
PUBLICATIONS
Monographs
Pakistan: Incoming and Outgoing Migration – Framework for a Discussion on Resettling Afghans in Pakistan after the Taliban’s Victory
Kamali-Chirani, Fatemeh
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Islamabad 2021.
Understanding the Life of Afghans in Pakistan: self-perception of Refugees
Kamali-Chirani, Fatemeh
Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad 2021.
Policy Review: COVID-19 and Change in Global Political Order
Kamali-Chirani, Fatemeh; Khalid, Imran
Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad 2020.
Policy Review: Revival of Af-Pak Dialogue amid COVID-19: What Needs to be Done?
Kamali-Chirani, Fatemeh
Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad 2020.
Does Intercultural Dialogue matter? The Role of Intercultural Dialogue in the Foreign Cultural Policy of Iran and Germany
Kamali-Chirani, Fatemeh
LIT-Verlag, Münster 2019.
Articles in journals
Cultural Bounds as a Tool for Development - The Dynamics of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran
Kamali-Chirani, Fatemeh
In: Development Advocate Pakistan, 8 (2021), 4, pp. 69-72.
Intercultural Dialogue for Sustainable Development
Kamali-Chirani, Fatemeh
In: SDPI’s Journal of Development Policy, 3 & 4 (2020), , pp. 1-25.
Flucht verstehen - Wie sich Forschung auf Vielfalt einstellen kann
Kamali-Chirani, Fatemeh; Al Murabea, Bashar; Schlee, Thorsten
In: Sozial Extra, 43 (2019), 2, pp. 113-114.
Articles in Anthologies
Aus dem Forschungslabor: Befragung von Geflüchteten durch Ko-Forscher*innen in Workshops
In: Mratschkowski, Anna (Ed.): Integration Geflüchteter in Deutschland.
Nomos, Göttingen 2020., pp. 65-90. (Kamali-Chirani, Fatemeh; El-Kahil, Salah; Schlee, Thorsten)
Reviews
Talal Almutairi, Dean Kruckeberg (Hg.): Public Relations in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries: An Arab Perspective, New York, Routledge 2019
Kamali-Chirani, Fatemeh
In: International Journal of Communication, 15 (2021) , pp. 4310-4313.
Mohammad Zaman: Islam in Pakistan: A History, NJ: Princeton University Press 2018
Kamali-Chirani, Fatemeh
In: Digest of Middle East Studies, 28 (2019) 1, pp. 206-210.
Afiya S. Zia: Faith and Feminism in Pakistan — Religious Agency or Secular Autonomy? Brighton, Sussex Academic Press 2018
Kamali-Chirani, Fatemeh
In: Digest of Middle East Studies, 28 (2019) 4, pp. 394-397.
Reza Zia-Ebrahimi: The Emergence of Iranian Nationalism: Race and the Politics of Dislocation, New York: Columbia University Press 2016
Kamali-Chirani, Fatemeh
In: Middle East Media and Book Reviews Online, 5 (2018) 1
Yadullah Shahibzadeh: The Iranian Political Language: From the late Nineteenth Century to the Present, New York und London: Palgrave Macmillan 2016
Kamali-Chirani, Fatemeh
In: Digest of Middle East Studies, 27 (2018) 1, pp. 157-160.
Miriam M. Müller: A Spectre Is Haunting Arabia: How the Germans Brought Their Communism to Yemen, Bielefeld: Transcript-Verlag Political Science 2016
Kamali-Chirani, Fatemeh
In: Middle East Media and Book Reviews Online, 6 (2018) 3
Jody C. Baumgartner, Terri L. Towner (Hg.): The Internet and the 2016 Presidential Campaign, Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books 2017
Kamali-Chirani, Fatemeh
In: International Journal of Communication, 12 (2018) , pp. 2940-2943.
Siavush Randjbar-Daemi: The Quest for Authority in Iran: A History of the Presidency from Revolution to Rouhani, London and New York: I.B. Tauris 2018
Kamali-Chirani, Fatemeh
In: Middle East Media and Book Reviews Online, 6 (2018) 8
Press Articles
Corruption intensifies the damages of coronavirus
Daily Times vom 03.04.2020 more details
Why do governments need cultural diplomacy in COVID-19 crisis?
Daily Times vom 25.06.2020 more details
Dialog unter staatlicher Aufsicht
Welt-Sichten vom 05.06.2013, pp. 46-47 more details
further publishments
Pakistan needs gender-responsive policies to achieve SDG 5
southernvoice.org, 2021 vom 18.01.2021 to the internet article