Sonja Hegasy

Sonja Hegasy ( * 1967 in Leverkusen ) is a German Islamic scholar and Vice- Director of the Centre for Modern Oriental Studies.

Life

The study of Islamic studies she completed in Cairo, Bochum, New York and at the University of Witten / Herdecke and received his PhD in 1996 at the Department of Political Science at the Free University of Berlin. Until 1998, she served as a junior expert at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Cairo. Only employed as a research assistant at the Centre for Modern Oriental Studies in Berlin, it was from 2008, its Deputy Director and Chairman of the Board, " Science and Current Affairs " of the Goethe- Institute in Munich.

Works

• Popular Diplomacy. In: Foreign Office (ed. ): Dialogue with the Islamic World. Berlin (p. 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: CMO Study, 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