Saaba-Nur Cheema
Author, Political Scientist, Educationist
Saba-Nur Cheema, born in Frankfurt, is the daughter of refugees from Pakistan. Since her teenage years, she has been active in historical and political education and in the fight against antisemitism and Islamophobia. She is a political scientist and holds a Ph.D. in education. From 2015 to 2021, she served as Educational Director of the Anne Frank Educational Center. She subsequently conducted research on anti-Semitism in childhood at Goethe University Frankfurt. Since 2025, she has been a research associate at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt.
At the Thomas Mann House, Saba-Nur Cheema and Meron Mendel will explore the role the Israel-Palestine conflict plays in the current manifestation of Muslim and Jewish collective identities in the United States.
Selected Awards
2025 | Dr. Gabriele Strecker Prize from the Soroptimist International Club Frankfurt am Main
2025 | Buber-Rosenzweig Medal from the German Coordinating Council of Societies for Christian-Jewish Cooperation (DKR)
2024 | Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Selected Publications
2026 | with Meron Mendel. Die Empörungsfalle. Wie wir wieder streiten lernen. Köln: Kiepenheuer & Witsch.
2026 | »Die haben Geld und machen Kampfsport«. Wie Kinder Antisemitismus und Differenz reproduzieren. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag.
2024 | with Meron Mendel. Muslimisch-jüdisches Abendbrot: Das Miteinander in Zeiten der Polarisierung. Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch.
2022 | ed., with Meron Mendel and Sina Arnold. Frenemies: Antisemitismus, Rassismus und ihre Kritiker*innen. Berlin: Verbrecher Verlag.