Middle East Correspondent "Süddeutsche Zeitung" and "Tages-Anzeiger"
Sonja Zekri was born in Dortmund in 1967. She studied history and Slavic studies in Bochum. After a stay abroad in Russia, she attended the Henri Nannen School in Hamburg, where she expanded her education in the direction of journalism. She then worked as a freelance journalist for the FAZ, Stern and ZDF. Since 2001 she has been an editor at the Süddeutsche Zeitung. From 2008 to 2011 she worked as a correspondent in Moscow. Her focus then shifted from Eastern Europe to the Arab region, as she has been working as a correspondent in Cairo since April 2011. Since then, she has also reported on current developments in Egypt and Syria for the Tages-Anzeiger.
Thursday, 13. March 2014, 18:30 – 20:00 h
At the University of Zurich, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zurich, KOL-G-201
Is the democratic experiment in Egypt failing? - In the past three years, Egypt has experienced four heads of state, two revolutions and two constitutions. It has not come any closer to democracy, but is lurching from crisis to crisis: society is torn apart, the informer state is more self-confident than before, the people are exhausted. Was the 2011 uprising a dangerous mistake? Which factors and players give cause for hope, which for concern?