Ahmad Moradi
Ahmad Moradi joined the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient in January 2025 with a DFG-funded research project titled Beyond Humanitarianism (2025–2027). His research examines the experiences of Hazara Afghan refugees, focusing on those injured in workplaces or on the battlefield. Ahmad holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Manchester and has completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. He was also an Einstein Junior Fellow at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin. His broader research interests include revolutionary politics, the anthropology of wounds, kinship, and the politics of care in contexts of protracted conflicts and displacement in the Middle East.
Research
Recent Publications
Dismembered Attachment: Documents and the Embodied Continuity of Regional Wars in Iran
(Dis)abling Sacrifice. Hierarchies of Loss, Brotherhood and Veterans’ Classification in Iran
The Basij of Neighbourhood: Techniques of Government and Local Sociality
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