Tom Khaled Würdemann
Since 10/23: PhD on Palestinian Israel Studies at the "Institute for Palestine Studies" in Beirut, Washington and Jerusalem. With: Prof. Dr. Johannes Becke, Heidelberg University of Jewish Studies
Professional activities
- 11/2020-03/2023: Collaboration in the research projects "Gathering the Dispersed. State Evasion and State-Making in Modern Jewish, Kurdish, and Berber History" and "Beyond Conflict and Coexistence. An Entangled History of Jewish-Arab Relations" at the HfJS Heidelberg and the Center for Transcultural Studies Heidelberg
- Since 02/2023: Freelance lecturer in politics at the Hessian University of Applied Sciences for Police and Administration in Mühlheim am Main
- Since 01/2024: Research assistant in the research training group "Ambivalent Enmity" at the University of Heidelberg
(Selection)
2024 "Zionism in the Arab World" - Routledge Handbook on Zionism, edited by Colin Shindler (Forthcoming)
01/2024 "Democracy instead of annihilation" - 'Liberal' - Magazine of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom
26.11.2023 "Enmity as a research gap" - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (together with Prof. Johannes Becke)
25.10.2023 "Israel's government has failed - this is the alternative" - Berliner Zeitung
14.10.2023 "An absurd exaggeration" - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
08.04.2023 "Israel and the Orientals - a brief history of Jews with roots in the Islamic world" - Jüdische Allgemeine (together with Prof. Johannes Becke)
20.01.2023 "Morocco between Palestine solidarity and the occupation of Western Sahara" - Dis:Orient
01.11.2022 "Knowledge transfer on the "Middle East conflict" for young people" - Belltower News
09.06.2022 "How to make cycling better for everyone: A Muslim perspective on Inclusivity" - Outside Magazine
04/2020 "The reactionary alliance: Congruence and dialog of conservative Christians and Muslims on Twitter" - CIBEDO contributions no. (Peer Review)
Reviews of
- Joseph Croitoru, Al-Aqsa or Temple Mount. The Eternal Struggle for Jerusalem's Holy Places [Trumah. Journal of the Heidelberg University of Jewish Studies, No. 26 (2023) p. 170]
Media appearances (selection)
- 10.11.2023 Media magazine ZAPP. Images from Gaza: How ARD and ZDF report
- 13.11.2023 War for the sovereignty of interpretation (Bayerischer Rundfunk)
- 20.10.2023 Episode 146: What is happening to Gaza now - a conversation with Tom Khaled Würdemann, in: Pirate radio station Powerplay (podcast by Friedemann Karig and Samira el-Ouassil)
contact details:
Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies
Address: Voßstraße 2, 69115 Heidelberg
Room: 400.01.18
Email: tom.wuerdemann(at)hcts.uni-heidelberg.de
Consultation hours: by appointment