Mustafa Karahamad is a research associate at the Professorship of Political Science with a focus on Radicalization and Violence Research at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, as well as a doctoral candidate at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, since November 2020. After completing his master's degree in history and political science, with a research focus on the Middle East, at the University of Siegen, Mr. Karahamad worked as a consultant for the Integration through Qualification (IQ) project. Prior to that, he did an internship at the United Nations University in Bonn, at the Institute for Environment and Human Security. Part of his DAAD scholarship in Germany was a program on post-conflict studies at the University of Konstanz. In Lebanon, Mustafa Karahamad worked as an education officer for Norwegian Refugee Council in a UNICEF training program for refugees.
Research
Research interests:
Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism
Religion-State Relations in the Middle East
Globalization in the Middle East
His dissertation project, "Clerics' Counter Terrorism Discourses," is a comparative case study of national Muslim religious institutions in Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Mustafa Karahamad investigates how Sunni clerics working in major Islamic universities and national religious institutions, respectively, deal with counter-terrorism concepts and how their positions relate to national counter-terrorism policies.
