Phone +49 221 470 2569
E-mail kzafer@uni-koeln.de
Office Hours
My Office hours during Winter Semester 2021/2022 take place on Zoom or via E-Mail upon request. Please send me an E-Mail at least 2 days before to fix an appointment. Thank you.
Karim Zafer is a lecturer and PhD candidate in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Cologne. He completed the interdisciplinary master's degree "Culture and Environment in Africa" in 2016 at the University of Cologne. He wrote his master thesis on "Perceptions of Sexual Harassment and the Islamic religious discourses in Cairo".
His current research focuses on Arab unaccompanied minor and youth refugees in Germany and their "Making a Family" process.
Forced Migration Studies, Islam, Kinship, Youth Studies.
North Africa and the Middle East.
SoSe2021: Youth in the Middle East
Ws. 20/21: High-risk migration
SS. 20: Youth from and in the Middle East
WS.19/20: Anthropology of forced migration
SS.19: Political and lived Islam in Egypt
WS. 18/19: (Forced) Migration and Family