Doctoral Researcher Tom Würdemann

Tom Khaled Würdemann has an MA degree in Global History and a BA In history and sociology from Heidelberg University. He has teaching experience both at the university as an adjunct lecturer and in political education to future policemen and women at a police academy. Before enrolling in “Ambivalent Enmity”, he worked for the research projects “Beyond Conflict and Coexistence” and “Gathering the Dispersed” at Heidelberg University and the Center for Jewish Studies Heidelberg. He has six years of experience working in education, specifically in the field of combating racism, antisemitism, and other forms of extremism for students and schoolteachers. He has conducted research in Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Morocco, and Iraqi Kurdistan. His doctoral project deals with the perspective of Palestinian intellectuals towards Zionism and the state of Israel. More specifically, how their perspective has changed in relation to time and events such as recurring conflict or the peace process. His case study is the oldest Palestinian research institution, The “Institute for Palestine Studies” in Beirut, Jerusalem, and Washington DC.