Achim Rohde

Dr. Achim Rohde is a Middle East historian serving as Research Fellow at the University of Hamburg's Asia-Africa Institute and Head of Memorial Development at the Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation. He holds a doctorate from Freie Universität Berlin and has held academic positions at institutions including Philipps University Marburg, Goethe University Frankfurt, and TU Berlin.

• Research Focus: Modern Middle East history (20th/21st century), gender studies, memory politics, and critical analysis of Orientalism and educational systems.
• Publications: 15 most recent articles span topics from Jihadist masculinity to post-2003 Iraqi education reforms, Tunisian democratization, and German academic discourse on non-Christian religions.
• Teaching: Courses on Arab Spring legacies, Islamic popular culture, and gender dynamics in Middle Eastern societies across multiple universities between 2002-2021.

Academic Network: Collaborations with institutions like German Institute for Global Area Studies, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, and editorial work on comparative Middle East studies.

Key Projects: Contributions to Social Contexts of Rebellion in Early Islamic Period (SCORE), InterSaME, and RomanIslam Center for transcultural empire studies.