Computational social scientist and political scientist working at the intersection of Middle East studies, democratization, political behavior and culture, and computational text analysis. My research examines how civic norms, political institutions, and democratic cultures emerge in conflict-affected and stateless communities, with a sustained focus on Kurdish societies across Iraq, Iran, Turkey, and Syria.
I combine large-scale survey data, field research, and computational methods (NLP pipelines, transformer-based classification, LLMs) to study political participation, governance, and textual data at scale. My book The Kurdish Case for Democracy is forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan.
My work has appeared in South Atlantic Quarterly, International Journal of Conflict and Violence, and volumes published by Bloomsbury IB Tauris and Palgrave Macmillan. I have written policy analyses for the Middle East Institute, AGSIW, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, BPB, and the Austrian Federal Office for Immigration and Asylum.
Current projects:
Gendered Academic Network Dynamics in French Management Studies (Université Paris Dauphine – PSL, since 2025): gender dynamics in doctoral juries and co-supervision networks; LLM-based sub-discipline classification.
Kurdish Media and the Israel–Palestine Conflict (Heidelberg University of Jewish Studies, since 2023, Volkswagen Foundation): media framing analysis across Kurdish outlets.
Mapping Stateless AI Infrastructures (SCRIPTS Forum, Freie Universität Berlin, 2026): Kurdish NLP as a case of AI governance beyond the state.
Fluent in German, English, French, and Kurdish (Sorani and Kurmanji).
Last updated: April 2026
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Computational social scientist and political scientist working at the intersection of Middle East studies, democratization, political behavior and culture, and computational text analysis. My research examines how civic norms, political institutions, and democratic cultures emerge in conflict-affected and stateless communities, with a sustained focus on Kurdish societies across Iraq, Iran, Turkey, and Syria.
I combine large-scale survey data, field research, and computational methods (NLP pipelines, transformer-based classification, LLMs) to study political participation, governance, and textual data at scale. My book The Kurdish Case for Democracy is forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan.
My work has appeared in South Atlantic Quarterly, International Journal of Conflict and Violence, and volumes published by Bloomsbury IB Tauris and Palgrave Macmillan. I have written policy analyses for the Middle East Institute, AGSIW, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, BPB, and the Austrian Federal Office for Immigration and Asylum.
Current projects:
Gendered Academic Network Dynamics in French Management Studies (Université Paris Dauphine – PSL, since 2025): gender dynamics in doctoral juries and co-supervision networks; LLM-based sub-discipline classification.
Kurdish Media and the Israel–Palestine Conflict (Heidelberg University of Jewish Studies, since 2023, Volkswagen Foundation): media framing analysis across Kurdish outlets.
Mapping Stateless AI Infrastructures (SCRIPTS Forum, Freie Universität Berlin, 2026): Kurdish NLP as a case of AI governance beyond the state.
Fluent in German, English, French, and Kurdish (Sorani and Kurmanji).
Last updated: April 2026