PHD
PhD Supervisor: Umut Yildirim
PROFILE
Munia Hassoun is a PhD researcher in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the Geneva Graduate Institute. She initially trained and worked as a pharmacist before shifting into the humanitarian sector, working with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent throughout the years of war. In Switzerland, she completed a Master of Advanced Studies in Humanitarian Action at the Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies, then a Master's degree in Social Anthropology at the University of Bern. Alongside her doctoral research, she is a researcher at the University of Lucerne and teaches at EPFL as a member of the research agency Border Forensics. In 2026, she was awarded prestigious SYLFF fellowship.
Areas of expertise
- Anthropology of State
- Political anthropology
- Asylum and Forced Migration
- Authoritarianism, War, Syria
Selected publications and Works
Hassoun, Munia. 26.01.2026. “The Syrian Temporality". (Al-Zaman al Souri), aljumhuriya_net,
Hassoun, Munia. 28.07.2025. “Chaouis but Syrians", About Identity Shaming and The Violence of Politicization”. (Souriyyon lakin Shawaya, a’an Ishanat al Hawiyya wa onf al-tasyees), aljumhuriya_net
Hassoun, Munia. 18.06.2025. “A Cultural Burkini: Which Syrian people is the Ministry of Tourism talking about?”. (Burkini Thaqafi), aljumhuriya_net
Hassoun, Munia. 27.03.2025. “Syria, A Romantic Face of the Massacare” Souria. (Maa’na An Yakoon Lilm’aasah Wajhon Romancie), Khatt30
Hassoun, Munia. 26.10. 2023. “The Palestinian as Victim and the Politics of Sympathy.” (Al-Falastini Dahiyyatan, wa Syiasaat al-Ishfaq), Khatt30
Hassoun, Munia. 29. 09. 2017. “Your Eyes Are Homeland.” Street-photography, Creative Memory of the Syrian Revolution
Hassoun, Munia. 18.05.2019. Untitled. Street-photography, Creative Memory of the Syrian Revolution, https://creativememory.org/untitled-1049/