Projects
Hair, Identity, Beauty, and the Self in Muslim Contexts: Emotional Landscapes and Changing Femininities Ghent University
In this project, I aim to highlight the importance of women’s hair, bringing new focus to everyday intimate lifeworlds, processes of social transformation, and new religious identities in Egypt, Sudan, Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates. I will thus have a significant impact on the global headscarf debate.
While an abundance of literature and research exists on the headscarf, hair itself remains a neglected theme, despite being ...
Migration and Global Mobility. University of Antwerp
Following TikTok: Emotional Spectrum of Social Media Experience in Turkey. University of Antwerp
Place, lndigeneity and Research Relationships: In search of sacred places. University of Antwerp
Migration, diet and health of the first permanent settlers of Belgium: inter- and multi-disciplinary perspectives Ghent University
The aim of this project is to generate regional-scale insights into the lifeways of the first modern humans to settle permanently in Belgium during the Final Palaeolithic and Mesolithic. It achieves this through multi- and inter-disciplinary analysis of contextualised data from archaeological, palaeontological and anthropological assemblages whilst developing state-of-the-art analytical techniques in the fields of proteomics and stable ...