Amani Ashour is a sociologist and holds a doctoral scholarship from the Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich foundation (Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Studienwerk). 2020-2022 she was a research assistent at the Institute for Democracy and Civil Society Jena as well as the Research Institute Social Cohesion. Since 2022 she is part of the graduate school »Jewish and Muslim lifeworlds from a social science perspective« (Jüdische und muslimische Lebenswelten aus sozialwissenschaftlicher Perspektive) and is interested in researching Palestinian and Israeli lifeworlds in Germany.