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Category: 5in10

Scholarship reflects positionalities of discipline, location and context. 5in10 is an interview format that introduces scholars and contextualizes their research interests through 5 questions answered in less than 10 minutes reading time.

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5in10 / EUME

Humanities scholars have the ability and responsibility to bridge clashing worldviews – 5in10 with Hanan Natour

Hanan Natour is a German-Palestinian scholar of Arabic and Comparative Literature and a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Queen Mary University of London, where she contributes to the UKRI-funded project “Digital Al-Andalus: Radical Perspectives Of and Through Al-Andalus”. Hanan obtained her PhD in Arabic and Literary Studies with a thesis on modern Tunisian fiction at Freie Universität Berlin, co-supervised at the University of Oxford (2024). During her PhD, she served as a Research Associate to the ERC-funded project “PalREAD – The Reading and Reception of Palestinian Literature from 1948 to the Present” where she explored literary networks between the Maghreb and Mashreq.

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5in10 / re:constitution

Constitutional Law is Ultimately About People’s Lived Experiences – 5in10 with Dukagjin Abdyli

Dukagjin Abdyli is a distinguished legal expert specializing in European Law, Constitutional Law, and International Law. He holds a Doctor of Legal Sciences degree from Karl Franzens University of Graz, where his research focused on the interaction between European and international legal frameworks. Dukagjin has held key positions in Kosovo’s public institutions, with a particular focus on constitutional and European integration processes. During his tenure at the Ministry of European Integration, he played a crucial role in the legal approximation process, ensuring the harmonization of Kosovo’s legislation with the EU acquis.

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5in10 / EUME

Writing Poetry and Writing Criticism are not at all Distinct Categories of Creation ‒ 5in10 with Ammar Kandeel

Ammar Kandeel is a literary and art critic whose work lies at the intersection of visual culture, decolonial studies, and literary/art theory. His main research area spans issues of Palestinian transnational creations and self-representations. He earned his PhD from the University of Montpellier 3 with a dissertation analyzing Edward Said’s writing of the critical discourse on orientalism. Recipient of postdoctoral mobilities (funded by the FMSH, ACSS, UNIMED, and Columbia Global Centers – Amman), Ammar’s research focuses on Palestinian testimonial strategies and agency across various mediums. In the academic year 2025/26, he is a EUME Fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien.

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5in10 / re:constitution

The Life of an Academic Does Not Have to be Confined to Sitting Behind a Desk ‒ 5in10 with Jacquelyn Veraldi

Jacquelyn Veraldi is a Junior Research Fellow at the Central European University Democracy Institute (Budapest). Her research interests include EU constitutional, in particular the values of democracy and the rule of law. She is also a Scholar at The Good Lobby. Jacquelyn holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge (Trinity College).

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5in10 / EUME

Food is Where all my Interests Meet – 5in10 with Omri Polatsek

Omri Polatsek is a historian of science, technology, and the environment, with a regional focus on Egypt and the Middle East. He is a doctoral student at the International Max Planck Research School “Knowledge and Its Resources: Historical Reciprocities” at the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte and a researcher at the “History of Technology” Department at the Technische Universität Berlin. Before joining EUME, Omri was an affiliated researcher at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient. He holds an MA in Global History from Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and a BA in Middle Eastern Studies and Political Science from Tel Aviv University.

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5in10 / re:constitution

Mobility is also humility ‒ 5in10 with Yann Lorans

Yann Lorans studied European Union law at the Universities of Montpellier, Lund, Paris-Est Créteil, and at the College of Europe (Bruges). After an internship at the Court of Justice of the European Union in the cabinet of Advocate General Michal Bobek, he began a joint PhD at Université Paris-Est and KU Leuven. He defended his thesis on the collaborative relationship between the European judiciary and legislature in the field of fundamental rights. Alongside his research, he was a guest researcher at Lund University and has taught constitutional theory, French public law and EU law at Université Paris-Est Créteil, KU Leuven, Sciences Po Paris, and Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas. Since 2025, he has been working on the defence of democracy through EU media regulation as a re:constitution fellow, including research stays at the European Commission (Brussels) and NOVA School of Law (Lisbon).

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5in10 / re:constitution

A Liberal Society Stands or Falls with its Conception of Equality – 5in10 with Meret Plucis

Meret Plucis completed her legal education at Humboldt University Berlin, Panthéon- Assas University in Paris (LLM), and the University of Amsterdam (LLM). Early on during her studies, she developed a focus on European Union law. With her re:constitution fellowship, Meret Plucis returns to a more applied angle: examining how gender equality is strategically reinterpreted in retirement and labor law, connecting constitutional theory with on-the-ground legal realities. Her professional and personal interests are centered around feminist issues.

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5in10 / EUME

“There is no way to look a conspiracy theory in the eye” – 5in10 with Aya Labanieh

Aya Labanieh is a scholar of empire, conspiracy, media, and memory culture. She received her PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University and is presently a fellow at Columbia University’s Narrative Intelligence Lab and a research affiliate with the EUME research program’s project SYRASP at the Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin. Her work contends with the intertwinement of conspiracy, memory, and power in Anglophone and Arabophone literatures and mediaspheres—spanning genres of dystopian science fiction, radical Internet subcultures, and the memoirs of agents and spies.

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5in10 / EUME

“Maybe we should start by admitting the truth” – 5in10 with Eli Osheroff

Eli Osheroff is a historian of the modern Middle East, with a focus on Arab political and intellectual history and the Arab-Zionist conflict. He holds a PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Truman Institute, at the Jacob Robinson Institute at the Hebrew University, and in the Dan David Society of Fellows at Tel Aviv University. His first book, based on his doctoral dissertation, is forthcoming from the Van Leer Institute and deals with Arab political imagination from the late Ottoman period to 1948. The book focuses on Arab visions for an independent Palestine and the place of Jewish settlers in the future Arab state. Eli’s articles have appeared in the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, the Israel-Palestine Review, and other venues.

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5in10 / Imagining Futures – Dealing with Disparity / MECAM

Machtat of Kerkenah: An Empowering Motherly Continuum and Cultural Heritage – 5in10 with Souhir Zekri

Souhir Zekri holds a PhD in English Studies from the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, Scotland) and currently teaches at the Higher Institute of Digital Engineering of Tunis (University of Tunis). Her main research areas include life writing theory, motherhood and gender studies, the Italian Diaspora in Scotland, and spatial theory. She also writes short stories and first-person testimonies in relation to gender and harassment. In the academic year 2025–26, Souhir is a MECAM Fellow, working on her project on traditional women singers in Tunisia.