Publications

In this summer, Gerdien Jonker wrote the foreword to the Perspektif issue "Migration im Gedächtnis - 60 Jahre Anwerbeabkommen mit der Türkei", which is published by Millî Görüş.

On its homepage, the service platform for journalists “MEDIENDIENST INTEGRATION” (Migration Media Service) published an article written by Mahmoud Jaraba. The EZIRE employee provides insights into the results of his research work of several years on Arab-Turkish or Kurdish extended families and "clan criminality".

The changes in the political and economic constellations in Eurasia, the Middle East and North Africa make it indispensable to also take a look at the role of Turkey. A study project was dedicated to this task.

Martyrdom. A word behind which there are many ambiguities and questions. A word that is always accompanied by the question of the final word on life, a word which cannot be considered alone, but must rather be seen in a network of concepts such as bravery, love, courage, and determination.

The latest issue of Medaon, a journal that focuses on Jewish life-worlds, features an article by Dr. Gerdien Jonker that deals with the Working Group Churches and Religious Communities in Greater Berlin (AKR).

Ülkü Ocakları – far-right extremists with Turkish-Islamist ideologies, also called Grey Wolves - are active in various Turkish and Turkish-Islamist organizations in Germany and Austria. In this recently published analysis by EICTP (European Institute for Counter Terrorism and Conflict Prevention)...

Dr. Mahmoud Jaraba, associated member at EZIRE, spent much of 2016 and 2017 doing field research in Salafist networks in Bavaria. The findings of his work have recently been published as "Salafism - the roots of Islamic extremism based on the Friday sermons of a Salafist mosque in Germany" (title tr...

In an article from 20 January 2020, the Tagespiegel wrote about the conference held by the the Bavarian Academy for Sciences and Humanities on 16 January 2020, where religious historian Gerdien Jonker contributed a talk about “Jews and Muslims in Weimar-Republic Berlin – a neighbourhood story". I...

The new study by EZIRE researcher Gerdien Jonker, published by BRILL on 9 January 2020, addresses encounters between Jews and Muslims in interwar Berlin. Jonker describes the book as a spinoff to her previous work The Ahmadiyya Quest for Religious Progress.

For Project MIDA - Modern India in German Archives 1706-1989 - EZIRE research assistant Gerdien Jonker has retrieved and studied the supposedly lost archive of the Ahmadiyya mosque in Berlin-Wilmersdorf. In the now available first publication "The Mosque Archive in Berlin-Wilmerdorf: Of Muslim Mo...