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Dr. Rand El Zein is the research coordinator for Department Artifacts, Action, Knowledge, and she is one of the gender equality officers and formerly 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.
Current Projects
Completed Projects
Past Events
Colloquium
- Institute Event
On the Criminalization of Femicide in a Comparative Legal Perspective
MOREColloquium
- Institute Event
POSTPONED: Forced Examinations, Protection of Life, and Medical Professional Ethics: Reproductive Regimes and Abortion Discourses as a History of Violence in the 1980s and 1990s
MOREColloquium
- Institute Event
Film and Discussion: "Getty Abortions"
MOREColloquium
- Institute Event
Talk: On the Necessary Transgressions of #Metoo
MORETalk
At the Altar of the Metaphysics of Materials: From Porphyry to Obsidian in the New World
MOREColloquium
- Institute Event
Film and Discussion: "Handicap et stérilisations forcées: la fin d'un crime?"
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