Affiliated Researcher
Mounir Zahran is a doctoral candidate in democracy and constitutional theory at Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. He studied political science, history, and Islamic studies at the universities of Greifswald and Heidelberg. He has previously conducted research and spent time abroad in Beirut and Florence. In addition to his work in political theory, he is particularly interested in the Arab intellectual history of the Levant.
Reviews and essays (selected)
(2024): Cold War liberalism defended: https://politischeoekonomie.com/
(2023): Between lofty heights and solid institutional ground: https://www.theorieblog.de/in-dex.php/2023/10/kongresssplitter-theoriekongress-zwischen-luftigen-hoehen-und-festem-institutionel-lem-boden/
(2023): Review “What is liberalism? by Elif Özmen” Portal for Political Science: https://pw-por-tal.de/themen/elif-oezmen-was-ist-liberalismus
Talks and teachings (selected)
(2024): Lecture Series: What is the State of Democracy in the 2020s? With Daniel Ziblatt, Wolfgang Merkel, Christoph Möllers and others. (organization of the series and holding one of the lectures)
(2024): Participating in the Intensive Doctoral Week, Sciences Po Paris Law PhD Program (2023/2024) Seminar on John Rawls' Political Liberalism (Free University of Berlin)
(2023): Presenting: The Role of Expectations in the Universality of Human Rights. International Conference "The Diversity of Human Rights. Human Rights and International Disorder" at the Inter-University Center Dubrovnik.
(2023) On the relationship between democracy and the rule of law: contradiction or condition? (Free Uni- versity of Berlin)
(2022/2023) The liberal status quo and its critics (University of Greifswald)
(2022) An introduction to the thinking of Reinhart Koselleck (University of Greifswald)
