Dr. Clara-Auguste Süß

The MECAM Policy Talk 2025 brought together experts on and from the Maghreb as well as on and from Sub-Saharan Africa in Berlin for 2.5 days of intense deliberations. The blog article summarizes the main findings and presents central policy implications.

The article investigates the assumption that socioeconomic marginalization helps explain radicalization, focusing on Egypt and Tunisia after 2011. Using social movement theory and based on a comprehensive study of literature, it identifies key mechanisms linking socioeconomic factors and radicalization.

This article explores two key facets of institutionalized ethical review processes in Germany: their importance in shaping ethical research and their associated challenges. To address these challenges, this article emphasizes the need for expanding the current management of research ethics and implementing what we call “Institutionalized Research Ethics Practices’’ (IREPs).

Organiser: German Institute for Global and Area Studies Dr. Clara-Auguste Süß (Organiser), Prof. Soumaya Mestiri (Panelist), Prof. Dr. Manuela Boatcă (Panelist), Raouf Farrah (Moderator)

This multilingual event was part of the Merian Family Meeting and offered two keynotes: “Decolonizing Knowledge in Times of Asymmetric Ignorance: On Counter-Mapping and Self-Indictments” (Manuela Boatcă) and “La ‘machine à décoloniser’: réflexions autour du geste décolonisateur” (Soumaya Mestiri).

Deutscher Orientalistentag 2025, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen Organisers: Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft Dr. Clara-Auguste Süß (Organiser), Benjamin Heidrich (Chair), Ph.D. Christian Thuselt (Panelist), Ph.D. Imad Alsoos (Panelist), PD Dr. Nora Lafi (Panelist), Massensen Cherbi (Panelist), Dr. André Bank (Discussant)

The panel “The State and Its Antagonisms: Contingency and Fragmentation of Political Order in the MENA Region”, organized by MECAM, explored how statehood is constituted, its internal dissonances, and tensions between imagined orders and practices across the Maghreb, Mashriq, and Germany.