Zara Kanaani

Since 2020:

Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Sociology of Rural Areas, Dissertation subject: “Analysis of the relation between the integration of refugees and the sustainability of the city of Witzenhausen as a rural area”, University of Kassel, Germany

About the PhD: The project aims to investigate the connection between the presence of refugees and the social sustainability of the city of Witzenhausen in Werra-Meißner-Kreis. Refugees’ level of integration, the political potency of the city, social capacity and the general orientation to choose between two concepts of “integration” or “assimilation” are the components of the study.

2015 - 2019:

M.Sc. Sustainable International Agriculture, Thesis subject: “The analysis of the impact of the Syrian crisis on the National Water Strategies in the case of Jordan”, University of Kassel and Georg-August University of Göttingen, Germany

2014 - 2015:

Exchange Student, Section of Ecological Plant Protection, University of Kassel, Germany

2009 - 2013:

M.Sc. Agricultural Engineering, Thesis subject: “Allelopathic potential assessment of 71 cultivars of Iranian wheat”, I. Azad University of Karadj, Iran

2002 - 2006:

B.Sc. Agricultural Engineering, Agronomy and Plant Breeding, Thesis subject: “An exoteric Study about habitat of Truffle mushrooms in Iran”, University of Tehran, Iran