Anders Hastrup Email & Phone Number

Copenhagen, DK

Amman, Jordan

This ethnographic project investigates the perceptions Syrian youth in Jordan hold of their social, economic and political situation and examines when and how these perceptions inflect the abilities of Syrian youths to envision, plan for and act towards viability in a context of prolonged displacement.

Amman Governorate, Jordan

Obtained funding from the Danish Arts Council for the publication of the literary anthology "Eksil - Nye Arabiske Stemmer (Exile - New Arab Voices)" where 20 refugees, 10 men and 10 women, articulate their experience of flight, displacement and encounters with the European asylum system. Edited the volume, translated three of the stories from Arabic. The.

Amman Governorate, Jordan

As team leader at Oxfam IBIS I led the "Youth Participation and Employment Programme", a regional five year project bringing employment opportunities to young people in Jordan, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia, funded by the Danish Arab Partnership Programme (DAPP)

Jordan

- Facilitated information sharing on protection among the DRC MENA field offices- taught mixed migration and protection in DRC regional induction courses- participated in Protection Information Management (PIM) workshops and courses in both Denmark and the MENA region- Follow up field visits to DRC protection colleagues in Iraq, Turkey, Lebanon, Tunisia.

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

• Arranging conferences and seminars with leading researchers and Middle East scholars, while writing my book (forthcoming)
• Affiliated as guest lecturer on Sudan and Syria at the UN mandated University for Peace in San José, Costa Rica, January - June 2015
• On the juror’s committee for annual artists’ grants for the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture

Copenhagen Area, Capital Region, Denmark

• Lectured on the situation in Syria and the Arab Spring
• Taught the history of Darfur at the Rift Valley Institute Sudan Course, Jinja, Uganda
• Research assistant and interpreter for the Danish Archaeological Nubia Expedition, North Sudan

Damascus, Syria

• Managed 20 national and international staff
• Developed scientific and cultural programs and activities
• Cultural attaché to the Embassy of Denmark in the Syrian Arab Republic
• Facilitated humanitarian agencies including UNHCR and the Danish Red Cross
• Submitted timely financial reports to the Board of the Institute
• Identified and hired staff in accordance with Danish and Syrian labour laws

Copenhagen Area, Capital Region, Denmark

• Researcher and team-leader at the 24 Hours for Darfur Project in Darfurian refugee camps, Eastern Chad
• Visiting lecturer at the University of Bergen, Norway
• Teaching and supervision of written and oral exams
• Advanced Arabic language courses at The Yemen Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, Sana’a, Yemen
• Teacher of the course The Anthropology of the Middle East for graduate students
• Teacher of the history of Sudan at the Danish Defence Academy

South Sudan

• Established the Bahr al Ghazal Field Office
• Oversaw and coordinated the building of compound
• Identified and hired 17 local staff
• Liaised with local governorate
• Coordinated shipment of building materials from Uganda to the construction of schools for IDP and returnee children
• Submitted timely budgets and financial reports to offices in Khartoum and Juba

Kalma Camp, South Darfur

• Planned and mapped the expansion of the neighbouring Otash camp while denied access to Kalma Camp by the Sudanese government
• Assisted in the closing down of the Darfur field office in the wake of our expulsion by the Sudanese government

Copenhagen Area, Capital Region, Denmark

• Employers included the Danish media, hospitals and schools

South Darfur, Sudan

• Establishment of field office
• Identification of compound and the hiring of 20 local staff
• Liaison with the government Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC)
• Establishment of three women’s centres in Kalma Camp, South Darfur
• Monitoring and implementation of literacy and psychosocial programs for IDP women
• Establishment of mill-programs and other food security interventions in the camp

Khartoum, Sudan

• Food and NFI distribution in IDP camps in greater Khartoum, White Nile State and West Darfur
• Interpretation and English teaching for IDP children in greater Khartoum

Copenhagen Area, Capital Region, Denmark

• Support and mentor for Iraqi refugee families at the Red Cross Asylum Centre Kongelunden

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Near And Middle Eastern Studies, Phd

PhD thesis published by Routledge 2012 (paperback 2015) No other crisis in Africa has received as much attention in the West during the.

Master’S Degree, Arabic Language And Literature/Middle East Studies, Ma