Why France’s colonial chapter in Algeria is anything but history
1. August 2019“Here we drown Algerians” sign on Saint-Michel Bridge in Paris in 1961. Dozens of bodies were later pulled from the River Seine. . Election season […]
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“When I was quite mature and had a child, I felt my father’s pain”
29. June 2018“We come from different nationalities, different fields of interest, professions, societies, cultures and genders. We come from similar backgrounds in the sense that we both […]
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Daesh, Jordan, and Foreign Fighters
6. March 2018It is a rare island of serenity amid a storm, known as the “Kingdom of Peace”: the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Compared to its neighbors, […]
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Overcoming the past, without forgetting it
8. November 2017Processes of remembering, reappraising the past and reconciliation benefit from social dialogue. This enables blind spots in the understanding of historic truth and the barriers […]
Read More“Common Remembrance, Future Relations”: An Exchange Programme on Remembrance Culture and Coming to Terms with the Past
28. July 2017Historical experiences of suffering, injustice, persecution and tremendous violence significantly shape identities and affect social and political relations. CISS’s project “Common Remembrance, Future Relations” is under […]
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Africa’s Last Colony: The Question of Western Sahara
12. April 2017The Kingdom of Morocco has been readmitted into the African Union (AU) after 33 years. Morocco had left the former OAU in 1984 in protest against the admission […]
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Legal borrowing in Turkey: towards greater pluralism in Europe?
9. March 2017A year on from the EU-Turkey migration deal and with recent talk of Turkish accession negotiations being frozen in light of the Turkish government’s repressive actions, Turkey’s relationship with […]
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Iran deal to shake up international energy dynamics
1. December 2015After more than a decade of tensions and two years of heated negotiations, a landmark nuclear deal between the P5+1 – the United States, the […]
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Regional Head
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Lena GomerRegional co-Director MENA
Lena Gomer
Regional co-Director MENA
Lena Gomer is CISS’s regional co-director for “Middle East & North Africa” (MENA).
Lena currently completes a master’s degree in Near and Middle Eastern Studies and Intensive Arabic at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Münster in Islamic Studies and Economics. Besides the regional focus of her studies, Lena has collected valuable experiences by living in Jordan for volunteering and an internship at a local organization – the Arab Water Countries Utilities Association (ACWUA). Lena speaks German, English, Arabic and French.
Contact: lena.gomer@ciss.eu
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