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Middle Eastern Studies

Name Academic disciplines Research interest
Martin Aeschbacher Arab Studies, History, Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies Arabic countries, contemporary Middle East, politics, social interactions, literature
Nour Al-Zuhairy Arab Studies, Art History, Intellectual History, Islamic Studies, Linguistics, Literary Studies, Middle Eastern Studies Art History - Teaching Arabic - Contemporary History
Thair Alsaadi Arab Studies, Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Philosophy Philosophy, Secularism, Arabic world, European perceptions of Islam, Renaissance discourse, Nahda
Yasmine Berriane Middle Eastern Studies, Political Science Political Economy, electoral sociology, associations/NGOs, gender and politics, state-society relations, social movements, land rights, rural change
Nicola Diday Middle Eastern Studies, Political Science Middle East History and Politics, Politics of Resistance in the Middle East, Islam in Europe, Peacebuilding, Transitional Justice and Dealing with the Past, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Palestine, Israel, Egypt
Filippo Dionigi Middle Eastern Studies, Political Science International Relations, Refugees, Hezbollah, Lebanon, International Relations Theory
Michaela Grünenwald Arab Studies, History, Islamic Studies, Literary Studies, Middle Eastern Studies Arabic literature, theatre, Saudi Arabia, Iraq
César Jaquier History, Middle Eastern Studies state formation, Borders and Boundaries, tourism, Migration, Motor transportation
Sarah Khayati Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Political Science Middle Easterners in interwar Switzerland and Europe, Migration, Identity, Political ideas of the 20th century, Arab intellectual history, Shia Islam, Political and social developments in the MENA region
Hilary Kilpatrick Middle Eastern Studies Arabic literature, Christian Arab culture
Alice Küng Arab Studies, Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Sociology Religions in a religiously plural context
Charlotte Malterre-Barthes Anthropology, Arab Studies, Middle Eastern Studies Architecture, Urbanism, Urbanization, Food Systems
Daniel Meier Middle Eastern Studies, Political Science, Sociology Middle Eastern Politics, Borders and Boundaries, Societies, Refugees, Syrians, Migrations, Wars
Maurus Reinkowski Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Ottoman Studies nationalism, conversion, Historiography
Jonas Roellin Anthropology, Middle Eastern Studies Middle East History and Politics, Youth, Lifeworld, Islamism, Social Mobilization, radicalization, Islam in Switzerland
Aline Schlaepfer Arab Studies, History, Intellectual History, Middle Eastern Studies Arab nationalism, Jews in Arab lands, history of minorities, Ottoman legacy in the Arab world
Henning Sievert Arab Studies, History, Middle Eastern Studies, Ottoman Studies, Philology, Turkish Studies Cultural and social history of the Ottoman Empire and the Arab World (15th-20th centuries), Kultur und Gesellschaft der Arabischen Welt und des Osmanischen Reiches (15.-21. Jahrhundert)
Johannes Stephan Arab Studies, Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies (Arabic) Literary History, literary theory, Narratology, Travel Literature, Arabian Nights, History of Near Eastern Christianity, Ottoman History
Alaa Tartir Arab Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Political Science Political Economy, Geopolitics, Contentious Politics, Economic Development, Regional Dynamics, Non-state actors, International Aid, State-Building, Governance, Security Sector Reform, Palestinian Politics, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Palestine, Israel, Jordan
Saskia Weidmann History, Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Political Science Transitional Justice and Dealing with the Past, contemporary Middle East, Prevention of Atrocities, International Relations
Christian Wyler Middle Eastern Studies Sectarianism, Zeitgeschichte
Eva Mira Youssef Arab Studies, Linguistics, Media Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Philology Arabic Papyrology, dating of early manuscripts (papyri and Quran), palaeography, dialects, Arabic Media language and landscape, intercultural competences
Florian Zemmin Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Religious studies Modernism, Secularism, Islamic reformism, Islamism, Salafism, religion, ethics, intellectual history, conceptual history, interdisciplinarity