The Yezidi Studies Center is pleased to announce the second cohort of PhD students, who start their academic work and research at the Oriental Institute, Leipzig University. Over the course of the next years they will use their interdisciplinary skills and competences as well as the facilities and resources here at Leipzig University to produce innovative, first-class research in the field of Yezidi Studies.
Under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Sebastian Maisel, the four candidates approach their topics from different thematic angles (history, international law, pedagogy and education) using interdisciplinary methodologies and diverse sources and languages:
- Gülistan Ibrahim: Transformation des Ezidentums in der Diaspora. Bestandsaufnahme, Analyse und Reflexion über die Chancen und Herausforderungen religiös-kulturellen Wissens der Eziden in Deutschland.
- Mariam Mandekov: The Events of the Armenian Genocide and the Fate of the Ezidis in the Ottoman Empire: A Historical and Legal Analysis of Genocide.
- Linda Chicho: Reforming society through religious education and its impact on protecting religious minorities in Iraq. The case of the Yezidis.
- Sami Saleem Shamo: Religious and Cultural Variation Among the Yezidi Communities: Analyzing Cultural Components, Rituals, Sacredness, and Identity Perception.