Zenia Henriksen Email & Phone Number

In the DRIVE-project investigating structural factors enabling social exclusion and polarization in society.

Copenhagen

I helped and assisted families with mainly Syrian background navigate in Denmark, both in terms of language and culture.

Research Assistant at the department for Global Refugee Studies

Malmo, Sweden

I was assisting in planning and managing the project for the Arabic-Swedish newssite:www.aktarr.se

Malmö, Sverige

I was a temporary worker at an asylum centre for unaccompanied minors.

I have been writing articles for the non-profit web magazine, RÆSON, focusing on politics. My articles have so far been on the power structures and the current uprising in Syria.Feel free to have a look at them (in Danish)

I conducted research about four Syrian television channels focusing on their news broadcasts and their way of framing the different parties in the conflict. The research was done for CRIC (Centre for Resolution of International Conflict) at the Department of Political Science, and I was hired by professor, and CRIC partner, Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen from.

I was a volunteer in the group working in Palestine. We are cooperating with the NGO Palestinian Vision based in East Jerusalem. The project aims at decreasing the amount of drop-outs in secondary school with the human rights approach that every child has the right to education.

The project, in which I participated in the formation phase, is called Fritid for Flygtninge (Leisure for Refugees). We work under the Danish Refugee Council's Youth Network, and we plan and implement social activities for young refugees from an asylum center near Copenhagen.

København, Hovedstaden, Danmark

I was an intern in Center for Udsatte Flygtninge (Research Center for Vulnerable Refugees), which is a knowledge center focusing on educating professional personnel in working with refugees with traumas. Among other things I worked with communication tasks and the project MindSpring. I also carried out research about elderly refugees in Denmark, which was.

Copenhagen, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt

I was coordinating, implementing, and advertising for a three week tour to Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt. The aim of the Next-Stop project is to let the participants see the nuances of the Middle East, meet the people, the NGOs, the daily lives of a range of different people.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Middle Eastern Studies

Master'S Degree, Politics And Media In The Modern Middle East

I am specializing in Syrian political and sociological issues focusing on the media. I have followed these courses taught by Jakob.

Subsidiary Subject, Ba, Journalism

Gained skills in journalistic writing on various platforms

Bachelor'S Degree, Arabic And Islamic Studies

Activities and Societies: FAS (Foreningen for Arabiskstuderende) Courses, besides Arabic language: -Islam -The history of the modern.