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Rand El Zein

Research Officer

Dr. Rand El Zein is the Research Officer for Department III, Artifacts, Action, Knowledge, and she is one of the gender equality officers and mental health first aiders at MPIWG. 

Before joining the MPIWG, Rand worked as the project coordinator for the two Leibniz-funded programs, HISDEMAB and REMOBOKO, at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin. She completed her doctorate between 2017 and 2021 in Communication Studies from the University of Salzburg in Austria, where she published her monograph "Between Violence, Vulnerability, Resilience and Resistance." Rand earned her Master’s degree in Media Studies from the American University of Beirut from 2013 to 2015, where she also worked as a research assistant from 2016 to 2017.

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Upcoming Events

Kolloquium

Talk: On Abortion Pills in General, and “Misoprostol in Brazil” in Particular

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Kolloquium

Talk: Local Solutions to Ending Early Marriage and Female Genital Cutting (FGC) in the Somali Diaspora Background

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Kolloquium

Talk: On the Criminalization of Femicide in a Comparative Legal Perspective

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Kolloquium

Talk: "Forced Examinations, Protection of Life, and Medical Professional Ethics: Reproductive Regimes and Abortion Discourses as a History of Violence in the 1980s and 1990s."

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Kolloquium

Film and Discussion: "Getty Abortions"

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Kolloquium

Talk: On the Necessary Transgressions of #Metoo

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Past Events

The Sex of the Planets: A Week’s Progress

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Seminar

Metals and Value in the Precolonial Americas

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Talk

At the Altar of the Metaphysics of Materials: From Porphyry to Obsidian in the New World

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Kolloquium

Film and Discussion: "Handicap et stérilisations forcées: la fin d'un crime?"

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Lecture

Reconsidering the Mamluk Village: Readings on al-Dimashqī’s Filaḥa Manual

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Workshop

Historical Astronomy of China: A Practical Workshop

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Talk

The Ecology of the Political Landscape in Eleventh-Century Shaanxi: The Environmental and Spatial History of a Multiethnic Borderland

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