Buchkapitel / Book Chapters

• « Gérer la pluralité des religions et leur statut dans le monde contemporain : de la tolérance à la reconnaissance », in a book published by the UNESCO Chair in Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tunis, forthcoming.

• “Reconnaissance et herméneutique,” in a collective book comprising the proceedings of an international symposium entitled Symposium international: Comment va le monde? Penser la transition, les 22,23 et 24 mai 2024 (Tunis: The Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts, Beït al-Hikma, forthcoming)

• “Political Islam and its Prospects in the Arab and Islamicate World(s) in the Post-Arab Spring Era,” in   Ayfer Erdogan and  Shaimaa Magued (eds.) Islam and Politics in the 21st Century: Competitive Discourses and Future Uncertainties (London: Bloomsbury, 2025).

• “On Dealing with the Plurality of Religions and their Status in the Contemporary World: From Tolerance to Recognition,” in Ahmad Abd-Elsalam,(ed.) Discussing Interdependencies: Theology of Coexistence (Beirut: Orient-Institut  Beirut, 2024), pp. 280-308.

• “The (In)Compatibility of Islam with Modernity: (Mis)Understanding of Secularity/Secularism in the Arab and Islamicate Worlds”, in Simone Maddanu and Hatem Akil (eds.) Global Modernity in the Shadow of Pandemic: A Cross-Disciplinary Update (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2022), 105-130.

• “On the Relationship between Culture/Religion and Politics: A Critique of the Culturalist Approach to Islam,” in Abbas Aghdassi,  and  Aaron W. Hughes (eds.) New Methods in the Study of Islam (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022), 167-196.

• “On the Concept of Political Islam and its Prospects in the Post-Arab Spring Era,” in The "Arab Spring" in Transition: Future and Prospects, Edited by Abdelhaq Zammouri and Moncif Slimi (Tunisia and Bonn: Irtihal/ Deutsch-Maghrebinisches Institute für Kultur Und Media, 2022), 41-92. (in Arabic).

 Artikel / Articles 

• “The Civil State in Arab Thought: A Conceptual and Historical Approach,” Arab Journal of Constitutional Law, forthcoming.

• “On the Concepts of (Ricoeurian) Hermeneutics and the Philosophy of Recognition (of the Other),” Thaqafa Magazine, Issue 10, October 2024, pp. 186-195.

• “The ideal-Type of (Religious) Fundamentalism: A Conceptual, Constructive, and Critical Approach,” Taqueen, June 12, 2024; Riwaq Maysaloun Magazine, Issues 13 and 14, May 2024, pp. 277-316.

• “On the Concept of Political Islam and its Prospects in the Post-Arab Spring Era: Political Islam and the Other,” World Institute, (24 and 28 November 2023). (in Arabic).

• “Sadiq Jalal Al-Azm: From Hard Secularism to Soft Secularism,” Rowaq Maysaloon 10-11, (2023), 286-302. (in Arabic).

• “From Peaceful Civil Movement to Civil War and Sectarian Polarization: A Critical Review of Kevin Mazur’s Revolution in Syria: Identity, Networks, and Repression,” International Sociology 38(5), (2023), 552–561. https://doi.org/10.1177/02685809231194134

• “The Pioneering Formulation of the Concepts of Secularity and Secularism in the Arab-Islamicate World(s): Butrus al-Bustani’s The Clarion of Syria,” Religions 14(3), (2023), 286.

• “From Peaceful Civil Movement to Civil War and Sectarian Polarization: A Critical Review of Kevin Mazur’s Revolution in Syria: Identity, Networks, and Repression,” Rowaq Maysaloon 7-8, (2022), 425-441. (in Arabic).

• “The study of Islam and its relationship to secularism in the project ‘Multiple Secularities - Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities,’” Awaser 12, (2022), 133-157. (in Arabic).

• “On Secularity and Secularism in the Arab and Islamicate World: Butrus al-Bustani’s ‘The Clarion of Syria’”, Sharia, Secularism, and the State Towards New Horizons, Kuwait: Nohoud Center for Studies and Research, (2022), 92-110. (in Arabic).

• “The Relationship between State and Religion in Arab and Islamicate Contexts: the Civil State, the Secular State, and the Religious/Islamic State,” Kuwait: Nohoud Center for Studies and Research, (2022). (in Arabic).

• “In (In)Compatibility between Islam and the Enlightenment/Modernity: (Mis)Understanding related to Thick Normative Concepts,” The Centre for Islamic Theology (CIT) 1(1), (2022). (in Arabic).

• “On the Renovation of Religious Discourse: Analysis of Concepts, and Internal and External Disciplines,” Theosophy: Journal of Sufism and Islamic Thought 11(2), (2021). http://jurnalfuf.uinsby.ac.id/index.php/teosofi/article/view/1733.

• “A Critical Study of the Syrian Center for Policy Research’s Reports on ‘the Syrian Crisis’,” Syrian Society for Social Sciences, (7 December 2020). (in Arabic).

• “Islam is the Problem: on the Illusion of the Idea ‘the Priority of Islamic Reform’”, Kalamoon 11, (April 2020), 239-263. (in Arabic).

• “What is Toleration? Tolerance as a Thick Normative Concept”, Kalamoon 10, (December 2019), 239-263. (in Arabic).

• “Integration and the Willkommenskultur: A Dialogue between Cornelia Seng and Housamedden Darwish,”Mominoun without Borders Institute, (15 June 2019). (in Arabic).

•  “On the Relationship Between Philosophy and Religion, Between Democracy and Islam: The Need for a Conceptual and Critical Analysis,” Kalamoon 9, (April, 2019).

• “On the Relationship Between Culture and Politics: a Critique of the Culturalist Approach,” Kalamoon 4, (January 2018), 29-45. (in Arabic).

• “On the Understanding of Al-Azm’s Thought: between Philosophism, Ideologism and Scientism,”Awraq 8, (2017), 57-71. (in Arabic).

• “On the Distinction between Critique and Criticism: the Thought of Sadiq Jalal al-Azm as a Case Study,”Kalamoon 1, (May 2017), 27-58. (in Arabic).

• “The Critique and the (Sexual) Taboo in the Thought of Sadiq Jalal Al-Azm,” Mominoun without Borders Institute, (23 April 2017). (in Arabic).

• “Some Incentives of Al-Azm’s Critique,” Nizwa 82, (April 2015), 60-64. (in Arabic).

• “Critical Study of Azmi Bishara’s Book ‘The Arabian Question: Introduction to Arabian Democratic Manifesto’,” Alam Al Fiker 43, (2014), 257-296. (in Arabic).

• “An Introduction to the Legitimacy of the Philosophical and Arabic Study of Jean-Jacques Rousseau,” Tabayyun 3(10), (2014), 7-36. (in Arabic).

• “Translation as a Paradigm for Hermeneutics,” al-Tafahom Journal 42, (2013). (in Arabic).

• “Justice as Recognition: a Preliminary Conceptual Study,” Tabayyun 2(5), (2013), 97-120. (in Arabic).

• “Critical Discussion on Mohammed Jamal Parrott's Research about the Syrian Revolution,” Arab Center for Research & Policy Studies, (3 January 2012). (in Arabic).

Invited Organized workshops and panels

• Darwish, Housamedden. “The Alphabets of Academic Writing in Philosophy, Humanities and Social Sciences.” Workshop in cooperation with “The German-Syrian Research Society (DSFG).” 5 August 2023.
• Darwish, Housamedden, and Markus  Dreßler. “Religion and Secularism as Problem Space in Postcolonial Occidentalist Discourses within the MENA Region.” Workshop, 3–4 November 2022, Leipzig University.
• Darwish, Housamedden. “The Relationship between Religion/Islam and the State/Politics in Contemporary Islamic (Postcolonial Occidentalist) Discourses.” Panel at the 34th Deutscher Orientalistentag Congress,  Berlin, 14 September 2022.
• Darwish, Housamedden, and Stephan Milich.“Syrien – Gegen das Vergessen.” Workshop, 11 September 2022, Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt, Cologne.
• Darwish, Housamedden, and  Markus  Dreßler. “The Relationship between State and Religion in the Arab and Islamicate Contexts. Civil State, Secular State, Religious/Islamic State.” Hybrid International Workshop, 9–10 December 2021, Leipzig University.
• Darwish, Housamedden. “The Formation of the Concepts of Secularity/Secularism in the Arab/Islamicate Worlds.”  Two Hybrid Panels at the 27^th International DAVO Congress, 18 September 2021, University of Osnabrück.
• Darwish, Housamedden. “The Syrian Identity.”  Zoom Workshop in the Project “Supporting Syrian Diaspora Dialogue in Europe 2020 – 2021.” 28–29 June 2021.
• Darwish, Housamedden, and Jan-ChristophHeilinger. “Realising Understanding: Language in Cross-cultural Migration/Integration and Secular–Religious Contexts.” Online International Workshop, 18 February 2021.

Invited talks and lectures

• “Hermeneutics as a Paradigm (for Philosophy): The (Epistemic/Valuative) Difference and Disagreement Between Tolerance and Recognition,”  As part of the UNESCO Chair in Philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Tunis, October 26, 2024.
• “Islamic Feminism,” a lecture presented at the DAAD LegalLead Winter School, University of Cologne, 9 November 2023.
• “On the Philosophy Being Pure from Ideology, Science, and Religion,” a zoom lecture at the Department of Philosophy at the College of Arts, University of Baghdad. The lecture was organized in cooperation with the Ibn Sina Center at the University of Baghdad and the Arab Philosophical Academy, 1 October 2023.
• “From Hermeneutics to the Philosophy of Recognition and Identity Politics: Metamorphoses in my Intellectual Journey,” lecture at the Arabic Department and the Research Laboratory in Interpretive Methods at the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences at the University of Sfax, Tunisia, 5 May 2023.
• “The digital turn from a cultural studies perspective,” with Nabil Abd Al-Fattah and Munir Saidani, at the Tunis International Book Fair,  Tunisia, 3 May 2023.
• “On the Philosophy of Recognition and the Politics of Identity,”, a zoom lecture on my book “On the Philosophy of Recognition and the Politics of Identity: Criticism of the Cultural Approach to Arab-Islamic Culture,” for students whose researches are supervised by Professor Dr. Abdennebi El Harri at Hassan II University Mohammedia, Morocco, 27 March 2023.
• “On the Israeli/Jewish Issue and the Palestinian Cause: The Arab/Islamic Taboo in the Face of the Western/German Taboo,” University of Erfurt, 5 November 2022.
• “The Concept of Civil State and Transcending/Deconstructing the Dualism of the Secular State and the Religious State,” online talk organized by The Center for Arab & Middle Eastern Studies, Program in Islamic Studies, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, 18 March 2021.
• “On the Relationship between Culture and Politics: A Critique of the culturalist Approach”, paper presented in a webinar entitled “Islam: History and Society,” organized by the Center for Islamic Theology at WWU Münster, 23 December 2020.
  Participant in a panel discussion with Prof. Vanessa Wills, Dr. André Grahle and the book’s author Dr. Jan-Christoph Heilinger (LMU Munich) during an event launching the book “Cosmopolitan Responsibility. Global Injustice, Relational Equality, and Individual Agency,” which took place at the Lost Weekend bookshop, Munich, 22 January 2020.
• “Integration and the Role of the State in Religion,” full-day lectures presented to honorary Imams of Brandenburg in Potsdam, organized by the Regional Offices for Education, Integration and Democracy, Brandenburg (Regionale Arbeitsstellen für Bildung, Integration und Demokratie, Brandenburg), Potsdam, 14 December 2019.
• Participant in a panel discussion with Dr. Eva Alisic, Dr. S. Karly Kehoe and Dr. André Grahle, about the films “Science in Exile” and “Responsibility for Integration,” organized by the Munich Center for Ethics at Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, 3 May 2019.
• “The Ethics of Labeling the ‘Syrian Crisis’: Revolution, Civil War and/or Proxy War?,” lecture, organized by Heinrich Böll Foundation Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, 7 July 2018.
• “Secularism, Secularity, Secularisation,” talk and discussion, organized by Ibn Rushd Fund for Freedom of Thought, Berlin, 26 April 2018.
• “Identity, Integration and Racism,” lecture and discussion, presented at Salam Kultur Club, Berlin, 24 April 2018.
• With Anan Alsheikh Haidar “The Syrian Crisis – A Philosophical and Legal Overview,” lecture and discussion, organized by ZAK | Centre for Cultural and General Studies in cooperation with the International Scholars & Welcome Office (IScO) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, 12 December 2017.
• With Salam Said. “Integration,” discussion, organized by Ibn Rushd Fund for Freedom of Thought, Berlin, 28 September 2017. 
  “Arab Political Thought, the Syrian Revolution & the Question of Asylum," lecture at the Ibn Rushd Fund for Freedom of Thought, Berlin, 26 April 2017. 
  “On the Distinction Between Critique and Criticism: the Thought of Sadiq Jalal al-Azm as a Case Study,” Sadiq Jalal Al-AZEM Symposium, organized by the Harmoon Center for Contemporary Studies, Berlin , 11 February 2017.

Präsentationen / Conference Presentations 

• “Reconnaissance et herméneutique,” in Le Symposium international: Comment va le monde? Penser la transition, Tunis: The Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts, Beït al-Hikma, , les 22,23 et 24 mai 2024.
• “Political Islam and its Prospects in the Arab and Islamicate World(s) in the Post-Arab Spring Era,” at the 5e Congrès du GIS Moyen-Orient et mondes musulmans, Lyon University, 10–13 July 2023.
• “(Political) Islam in a (Political) Secular Environment,” at the XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Melbourne, Australia, 27 June 2023.
• “Authoritarianism in the Contemporary Arab Secular/Religious Debates on the Question of the State: Missed Issue,” at the XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Melbourne, Australia, 29 June 2023.
• “Facebook as a Post-Secular and Post-Religious Society: Ethics of Communication in the Virtual Society,” in the round table “Religion, Culture, Higher Education, and Digital Transformation in Southwestern Asia and North Africa: Challenges and Opportunities” organized by Dar al-Kalima University, jointly with The Christian Academic Forum for Citizenship in the Arab World (CAFCAW), Larnaca, Cyprus, 9–10 June 2023.
• “On the Concept of Critique and its Relationship to the Trinity of Taboos in the Thought of Sadiq Jalal Al-Azm’s,” at the sixth Conference for the Arab Council for Social Sciences, Beirut, Lebanon 24–29 May 2023.
• “From the Impossible Secular State to the Possible Civil State,” at the third Annual Conference for Syrian Researchers in Social Sciences, Istanbul, Turkey, 29–30  April 2023.
• “The Virtual Society as a Post-Secular and Post-Religious Society: Ethics of Communication in the Digital Age,” at the International Conference “Living in a Digital Age: Technology and its Effects on Religion and Popular Culture,”  OIB Conference at Nile University, Egypt, 11–13 March 2023.
• “The Dialectics of Knowledge and Ideology in Distinguishing between Religion and Religiosity,” at the International Workshop “Religion, Religiosity and Society,” Orient Institut Beirut, Alexandria, 11–12  December 2022.
• “Islam and Power: A Conceptual, Historical and Critical Analysis,” organized by Zentrum für Islamische Theologie of Münster University at the Conference “Islam and the Question of Power: Historical Experience and Current Contexts,” at the King Abdulaziz Al Saud Foundation, Casablanca, Morocco, 23–24 September 2022.
• “The Possible Civil State between Two Impossible States (the Secular and the Religious State): The Civil State as a Post-Secular State,” at the 34th Deutscher Orientalistentag Congress, Berlin, 15 September 2022.
• “On the Renovation of Religious Discourse: Analysis of Concepts, and Internal and External Disciplines,” at the 34th Deutscher Orientalistentag Congress, Berlin, 15 September 2022..
• “On the Relationship between Culture/Religion and Politics: A Critique of the Culturalist Approach to Islam,” at the 34th Deutscher Orientalistentag Congress,  Berlin, 16 September 2022; at the ESA-RN34 Sociology of Religion Conference, Groningen (online), 14 July 2022; and at the 2022 European Association for the Study of Religions Conference at University College Cork, 27 June–1 July 2022.
• “On Dealing with the Plurality of Religions and their Status in the Contemporary World – From Tolerance to Recognition,” at the International Workshop
• “Coexistence Theology,” Orient Institut Beirut, DAAD Cairo, Egypt, 26–27 July 2022.
• “Political Islam and its Prospects in the Arab and Islamicate World(s) in the Post-Arab Spring Era,” at the Hybrid International Workshop “The Relationship between State and Religion in the Arab and Islamicate Contexts. Civil State, Secular State, Religious/Islamic State,” University of Leipzig, Leipzig, 9–10 December 2021.
• “The Pioneer Formation of the Concept of Secularism in Butrus al-Bustani’s text The Clarion of Syria: Secularism as a Thick Normative Concept,” at the 27th  International DAVO Congress, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, 18 September 2021.
• “On the Renovation of Religious Discourse: Analysis of Concepts, and Internal and External Disciplines,” at the International Conference “The Civilizational and Religious Shift Between Theory and Practice: Religious Institutions at the time of Crises – from (the Arab Spring) to Covid-19,” organized by WWU Münster and other academic institutions, 2 July 2021.
• “Thick normative concepts and transcending the dichotomy between facts and values,” paper presented at the First Conference of Syrian Researchers in Social Sciences “Total Academic Freedom for Social Researchers,” organized by the Harmoon Center for Contemporary Studies and the Syrian Society of Social Sciences, in partnership with Kalamoon Review, via Zoom, 15-17 January 2020.
• “The (In)Compatibility Islam with Modernity/Enlightenment: (Mis)Understanding of Thick Normative Concepts”, paper presented at the Conference “Enlightenment narratives and Islam,” organized by Center for Islamic Theology at WWU Münster, 20–21 November 2020.
• “The Formation of the Concept of Secularism in Refutation of the Materialists: Secularism as a Thick Normative Concept,” paper presented at the 26th International Congress of DAVO / Conference of the Section Islamic Studies of the DMG, 3–5 October 2019.
• “Two Concepts of Integration: Integration as a Thick Normative Concept,” paper presented at the General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), Wroclaw, Poland, 4–7 September 2019.
• “A Critical Assessment of How the 'Syrian Crisis’ has been Labelled,” paper presented at the General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), Wroclaw, Poland, 4–7 September 2019.
• “What is Going Wrong with Refugee Integration in Germany? Integration as an Ambivalent Thick Concept,” paper presented at the Fifth World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies, Seville, 18 July 2018.
• “Academic Freedom and Political Repression in the University Sector in Syria,” paper presented at the Conference on Academic Freedom and Political Repression in the University Sector, Organiker by Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), Cologne, 5–7 November 2017.
• “What Should we Really Call the Syrian Crisis?,” paper presented at the Conference Deutscher Orientalistentag “Asien, Afrika und Europa,” Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena, 18–22 September 2017.

• Texts of Muhammad Abed Al-Jabri, Hassan Hanafi, George Tarabishi, Muhammad Jamal Barut, and Azmi Bishara, Global Secularity. A Sourcebook, Volume 1: Mapping the Academic Debate, Volume II The Middle East and North Africa, edited by Christoph Kleine, Monika Wohlrab-Sahr, Florian Zemmin, and Judith Zimmermann, (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024).

• Michaela Pelican, Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf and Karim Zafer, “FLucht – Familie – Soziale Netzwerke: Kölner Arbeitspapiere zur Ethnologie,” Cologne Working Papers in Cultural and Social Anthropology (KAE) No. 8, 2020. Translated by Abdelghafour Saidi and Housamedden Darwish.Cornelia Seng, “Kultureller Respekt! Anfragen an den Zehn-Punkte-Plan von Thomas de Maizière,” Abwab 6, June 2016.

• Cornelia Seng, “Kultureller Respekt! Anfragen an den Zehn-Punkte-Plan von Thomas de Maizière,” Abwab 6, June 2016.

2016 – present

Institute of Languages and Cultures of the Islamicate World, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cologne, Germany

• Graduate and undergraduate Arabic courses (writing, conversation, reading, translation and exercises) 

April-July 2023

Institute for Religious Studies, Leipzig University, Germany

• Graduate and undergraduate Seminar Secularity/Secularism and Religion/Islam inn Modern and Contemporary Arab Thought

2022 – 2023

History Department,  History of Western Asia, University of Erfurt, Germany

• Graduate and undergraduate Seminar Secularity/Secularism and Religion/Islam inn Modern and Contemporary Arab Thought

2018 – 2019

Institute of Languages and Cultures of the Islamicate World, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cologne, Germany

• Undergraduate seminar Islam and Politics in Arab Muslim-Majority Countries

2017 – 2018

Department of Philosophy, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

• Undergraduate seminar Introduction to Thick Concepts

Institute of Languages and Cultures of the Islamicate World, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cologne, Germany

• Graduate seminar The Relationship between Politics and Religion in Arab-Majority Countries

• Undergraduate seminar (Mis-)conceiving Each Other: (Mis)understanding Transcultural Concepts

2016 – 2017

Department of Oriental Studies, University of Cologne, Germany

• Graduate seminar (Political) Islam and Political Modernity (Democracy, Secularism and Human Rights)

• Undergraduate seminar The Arab Uprising: from the Spring to the Fall. Syria as a Distinguished Example

2002 – 2004

Department of Philosophy, University of Tishreen, Syria

• Undergraduate seminar Eastern Philosophy

• Undergraduate seminar Introduction to Philosophy

• Undergraduate seminar Islamic Theology

• Undergraduate seminar General Problematics in Philosophy

• Undergraduate seminar Philosophical Doctrines

• Undergraduate seminar Epistemology of Natural Sciences