Feryat Sannuroglu

CURRENT PROJECTS

LANGUAGES

  • English (Native Level)

  • German (Native Level)

  • French (Proficient)

  • Spanish (Proficient)

  • Turkish (Proficient)

  • Portuguese (Fluent)

  • Italian (Good)

  • Arabic (Good)

  • Hebrew (Intermediate)

  • Farsi/Dari (Intermediate)

  • Russian (Basic to Daily Use)

  • Amharic (Basic)

EDUCATION

STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHY:
SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ PARIS
& BERGSICHE UNIVERSITÄT WUPPERTAL
2025: Philosophy, postgraduate studies abroad at Sorbonne Université Paris, FRANCE
2025: Academic Presentation on own Research: "Reality = Irreality? The Continuity between Reality and Fiction through Alterity and Exteriority" at the Summer School "Philosophy and Storytelling" at the Center for Advanced Studies – Philosophizing in a Globalized World, University of Hildesheim, GERMANY
2024-2025: Philosophy, postgraduate studies at Bergische Universität Wuppertal, GERMANYUNITED NATIONS-HUMANITARIAN /
PEACEKEEPING MISSIONS-TRAINING
2024: UN-certified UNITED NATIONS STAFF OFFICERS COURSE (UNSOC) for UN-Peacekeeping Missions at the Staff College in Hamburg, GERMANY
2021-2023: Acting School Education and Graduation in Nordrhein-Westfalen, GERMANY

STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS:
ASTON UNIVERSITY BIRMINGHAM
& UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG
2013-2015: Double Master of Arts (M.A.) Governance and International Politics at Aston University in Birmingham, UK, and Otto-Friedrich University Bamberg, GERMANY
- Specialization Negotiation Theory and Conflict Resolution in the Middle East / Final Grades Master Dissertation 2014: graded „A“ Master Dissertation 2015: graded „A“
2014: Academic Presentation on own Research: “An Empirically Quantitative Analysis on Conflict Resolution vs. Conflict Management in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” at the academic conference of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) annual conference 2014 at the University of Sussex, UK
2014: Research Assistant for Track II Diplomacy at the Department of International Relations at Aston University in Birmingham, UK
2009 - Sep 2012: B.A./ Bachelor of Arts Political Science, Communication and Media Science, Sociology, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, GERMANYSTUDIES IN JOURNALISM, SOCIETY AND POLITICS:
UNIVERSITY OF DÜSSELDORF
& BOGAZICI ÜNIVERSITESI ISTANBUL
2011-2012: B.A. Political Science, Communication and Media Science, Sociology, Seminars: i.a. International Criminal Law and Middle East Politics
Bosporus University in Istanbul (English-speaking), TURKEY1999-2008: General Higher Education Entrance Qualification / High School Diploma Grade Average: 1.6 / one point six, High School Gartenstraße, Mönchengladbach, GERMANY

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

MUSEUM WORK
2025-to date: Prospective guide in a historical and cultural museum for different groups of visitors in the realm of interreligious dialgue + workshopWORK AS AN ACTOR
2023-to date: Various roles with various languages in various genres and productions(CIVIL-)MILITARY EXPERIENCE2022-2024: Project Officer for the international civil-military event with Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, and 20+ different nations in the context of the Invictus Games 2024 in Düsseldorf, GERMANYUN PEACEKEEPING
2019-2022: Preparatory training, field work and follow-up assignments Adviser (military diplomacy in 2020) in UN Peacekeeping Mission MINUSMA in MALI2018-2019: Supervisor and contact person for foreign general staff officers from over 50 nations’ security forces in the Federal Office of Languages in Köln-Hürth, GERMANY2019: Assistance in the realm of communication analysis in the context of crisis and conflict in the Middle East for security forces in GERMANYJul 2018 - Sep 2018: Basic Military Training in GERMANYHUMANITARIAN WORK
2017-2018: Humanitarian Supervisor in Reception Facility for Refugees, GERMANY
2017: Guest Researcher and Assistant Program Manager at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Jeruslaem, ISRAELPRIVATE SECTOR
2016 & 2017: Project Management and Language Services at the International Language Services Company KERN AG in GERMANYACADEMIC SUPPORT
2016-2019: Professional support in the politological analysis of mediation procedures and in working out the Turkish-Kurdish conflict in the Middle East and GermanyHUMANITARIAN WORK
2016: Consulting for international migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, in the
migration office, GERMANY2016: Public correspondent for local refugee-aid-services in Mönchengladbach, GERMANY2016: German language coordinator and lecturer for Arabic-, Farsi- and Dari-speaking refugees from war zones in Mönchengladbach, GERMANY2014-2015: Facilitator and contact person between arriving Iraqi/ Syrian refugees and humanitarian aid organizations for their coordination services in Bamberg, GERMANYUN-EXPERIENCE
2013: Assistance to the “United Nations Population Fund Liaison Office to the African Union and the UN Economic Commission for Africa” in Addis Ababa, ETHIOPIAEMERGENCY SERVICE
2012-2013: Administrative receptionist in the Emergency Department of the Mönchengladbach Municipal Clinics after a medical nursing internship, GERMANYCORRESPONDENCE / JOURNALISTIC WORK
2013: Foreign Correspondent from ETHIOPIA
2010-2014: Journalistic Freelancer for the regional newspaper Westdeutsche Zeitung (West-German Newspaper)
2008-2009: Foreign Correspondent from MEXICO

PUBLICATIONS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AWARDS

2024: First prose as a philosophical novel which is under revision to submit it to a bigger publisher2018: Publication: Sannuroglu, F. 2018. Warum braucht Deutschland eine Leitkultur und was steht ihr im Weg? In: Apelt, A. H. / Jesse, E. / Reimers, D. (Hg.). 2018. Akademischer Essaywettbewerb 2017: Brauchen wir eine Leitkultur? Halle: Mitteldeutscher Verlag.2015: Scholarship Holder for the Israel-Palestine-Excursion of the Bamberg Institute for Oriental, Arabic, Jewish and Interreligious Studies2013: Awardee of the Creative Writing Competition on the subject of "Being young in Europe: concerns and identity of Europe’s youth" supported by the Federal Agency for Political Education and the Robert Bosch Foundation2012: Awardee of the Writing Competition of the Erasmus scholarship holders of the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf on the topic “Thanks to Erasmus a New Person” with distinction/ honor from the university rector and acceptance speech at the 25th Erasmus Anniversary of the university

CORRESPONDENCE /JOURNALISTIC WORK

- CORRESPONDENCE WORK

- JOURNALISTIC WORK

WRITING