Dr. Dyala Hamzah

Dyala Hamzah

Zentrum Moderner Orient
Kirchweg 33
D-14129 Berlin

Tel.: +49-30-803 07 238
Fax: +49-30-803 07 210

E-Mail: dyala.hamzah@googlemail.com
Website at the ZMO: http://www.zmo.de/Mitarbeiter/Hamzah/cv_Hamzah.html

Project: Societies, Scouts and Schoolbooks for the Arab Nation: A case study of Pan-Arabist Darwish al-Miqdadi (1897-1961)

CV

Education

• Since 2011: Habilitation in History (Free University of Berlin)
• 2008: Doctorate in History and Islamic Studies (EHESS, Paris and Free University of Berlin)
• 1996 : M. Phil. (DEA) in Philosophy (Sorbonne, Paris)

Teaching

• Summer semester 2012 (Apr.-Jul.) – Adjunct Professor Free University of Berlin, Institute of Islamic Studies; Graduate Seminar: “The Nahda“
• Winter semester 2008/2009 (Okt.-Feb.) - Adjunct Professor Free University of Berlin, Institute of Islamic Studies, Undergraduate seminar and Tutorial: “Historical Semantics from a Global History Perspective: an Introduction”
• Summer semester 2008 (Apr.-Jul.) – Teaching Assistant Free University of Berlin, Institute of Islamic Studies; Graduate Seminar “Al-Azhar 1760-1850”
• September 1996 - July 1997: High-School Teacher of philosophy Lycée Richelieu - Rueil-Malmaison
• February - July 1996: Philosophy Instructor (Course in Theory of Education) Gaza University – The Gaza Strip
• September 1994 - July 1996: French Language Instructor Birzeit University – The West Bank
• September 1993 - July 1994: High-School Teacher of philosophy Lycée Experimental – Sèvres

Research

• 30 June 2011 - 1 May 2014: DFG Research Fellowship Research Unit “Actors of Cultural Globalization 1860-1930”, Free University of Berlin / Zentrum Moderner Orient
• 1 April 2008 – 31 May 2011: BmBF Post-Doc Research Fellowship, Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin
• 1 April 2004 - 31 March 2008: DFG Part-Time Research Fellowship, Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin
• October 2001- March 2004: DAAD Doctoral Grant, Free University of Berlin
• 15-28 July 2001 and 04-17 Aug. 2002: SIAS Fellow  (A. v. Humboldt and Andrew W. Mellon Foundations): Summer Institute "Public Spheres and Muslim Identities": Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin and Dartmouth College, USA

Editorship

September 1997 - August 2001 - Head of the publications department and Chief Editor of Egypte/Monde Arabe - CEDEJ – Cairo

Research interests

• Intellectual and social history of the Middle East (18th-20th centuries);
• Islamic law, historiography and philosophy;
• Conceptual history, critical theory.

Selected Publications

• 2012, Dyala Hamzah (Ed.), The Making of the Arab Intellectual (1880-1960: Empire, Public Sphere and the Colonial Coordinates of Selfhood (London, Routledge, forthcoming).
• 2010, R. Ahuja, K. Bromber, D. Hamzah, K. Lange & H. Liebau (Eds.), The World in World Wars: Perspectives, Perceptions and Experiences from the South (Leiden, Brill).
• 2008, "Muhammad Rashid Rida or: The Importance of Being (a) Journalist", in:
• Heike Bock, Jörg Feuchter & Michi Knecht (Eds.), Religion and its Other: Secular and Sacral Concepts and Practices in Interaction (Frankfurt am Main & New York: Campus): 40-63.
• 2008, "Lutte nationale ou fondation étatique? Les intellectuels palestiniens d’Oslo I à Intifada II". In: M. Zeghal (Ed.) Intellectuels de l’Islam contemporain : réformismes, libéralismes et nouveaux débats - Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée n°123 : 161-177.
• 2007, "Nineteenth-Century Egypt as Dynastic Locus of Universality: The History of Muhammad Ali by Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Rajabi (d. 1829)", Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 27.1 (2007): 62-82.
• 2006, "La pensée de ‘Abduh à l'âge utilitaire: l'intérêt général entre maslaha et manfa‘a". In: M. Charif et S. Mervin (Eds.), Modernités islamiques, Damascus: IFPO: 29-52.
• 2005, "Is There An Arab Public Sphere? The Palestinian Intifada, a Saudi Fatwa and the Egyptian Press". In: Armando Salvatore & Mark LeVine (Eds.), Religion, Social Practice, and Contested Hegemonies: Reconstructing the Public Sphere in Muslim Majority Societies, New York: Palgrave MacMillan: 181-206.
• 2000, "La Censure, ou comment la contourner: Dire et ne pas dire en Égypte aujourd’hui", Égypte/Monde arabe 3(1/2000): 11-23.