Dr. Sonja Hegasy is Vice Director of the Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in Berlin. She holds degrees in Islamic Studies and Political Science. She received her PhD in 1997 at Free University of Berlin on Morocco's emerging civil society since the early 1990s. From 2012 to 2014 she headed the research Group 'Transforming Memories: Cultural Production and Personal/Public Memory in Lebanon and Morocco', a project about coming to Terms with past grave human rights violations in the Arab World.
Articles
Boukhari and Shaftari – »Memory-confessions« of two Arab perpetrators, ZMO Working Paper, No. 12, 16 S.
- Die marokkanische Wahrheitskommission zwischen Politik und Geschichte. In: Christoph Marx (Hrsg.): Bilder nach dem Sturm. Periplus-Studien, Münster. S. 102-121 (mit Bettina Dennerlein).
"Popular Diplomacy". In Auswärtiges Amt (ed.) Dialogue with the Islamic World, Berlin 22-30.
"Young Authority: Quantitative and Qualitative Insights into Youth, Youth Culture, and State Power in Contemporary Morocco" In The Journal of North African Studies, Volume 12, Issue 1 March 2007, p. 19–36.
Changing Values among Youth. Examples from the Arab World and Germany (ed. with Elke Kaschl), Berlin: ZMO-Studien, 2007
