Name | Academic disciplines | Research interest |
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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 |
Jean-Baptiste Allegrini | Middle Eastern Studies, Political Science, Sociology | Local Governance, Divided Societies, Refugee studies, Border Studies, Migrations, Sectarianism, Political Parties, Minorities, Humanitarianism, Lebanon, Syria |
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 |
Monika Bolliger | Arab Studies, History | Middle East History and Politics, humanitarian aid, Armed Non-State Actors, Identity Politics, Peace Diplomacy, anthropology of Islam |
Baptiste Brodard | Anthropology, Islamic Studies, Sociology | welfare activities of religious actors, Islam in Switzerland and in Western Europe, Islam and social change |
Benoit Challand | History, Sociology | International Aid, civil society, Islamic charities, social movements and mobilization, revolution |
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, Iranian Studies, Islamic Studies, Literary Studies, Middle Eastern Studies | Iran, Sustainable Development, Arabic literature, theatre, Saudi Arabia, Iraq |
Aurélie Kerkadi | Anthropology, Religious studies | Arabic countries, anthropology of Islam, contemporary Middle East, gender, Religions in a religiously plural context |
Alice Küng | Arab Studies, Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Sociology | Religions in a religiously plural context |
Bashar Malkawi | Arab Studies, Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies | international trade, international affairs, Islamic finance, trade agreement, intellectual property |
Charlotte Malterre-Barthes | Arab Studies, Middle Eastern Studies | Architecture, Urbanism, Urbanization, Food Systems |
Maged Mandour | Political Science, Sociology | Middle East History and Politics |
Daniel Meier | Middle Eastern Studies, Political Science, Sociology | Middle Eastern Politics, Borders and Boundaries, Societies, Refugees, Syrians, Migrations, Wars |
Shirin Naef | Anthropology, Intellectual History, Iranian Studies, Islamic Studies, Philosophy, Religious studies, Theology | law, ethics, legal anthropology, bioethics, material culture, medical anthropology, religion, comparative theology (Islam/Judaism/Christianity), textual analysis and knowledge production, Governance, anthropological theories of kinship/ human reproduction/sexuality, economic anthropology, philanthropy, charity, intellectual history, Islamic ethical and legal concepts, Shia Islam, fiqh, Shia religious seminaries and scholarship, concept of kheir, ethnography/contemporary Iranian society and culture |
Jonas Roellin | Anthropology, Middle Eastern Studies | Middle East History and Politics, Youth, Lifeworld, Islamism, Social Mobilization, radicalization, Islam in Switzerland |
Emanuel Schaeublin | Anthropology, Arab Studies, Philosophy | ethics, sharia, gift, exchange, economic anthropology, shame, Islam, zakat, humanitarian aid, calculation, excess, wealth, poverty, rizq, sadaqa, modernity, state, self, social interactions, discursive tradition |
Hansjörg Schmid | Religious studies, Theology | Muslims in Europe, interreligious ethics, welfare activities of religious actors, religions in the public sphere |
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 |
Andreas Tunger-Zanetti | History, Islamic Studies, Religious studies | Islam in Switzerland, Islam in Western Europe, Mosques and mosque building, Head scarf, Youth, Religions in a religiously plural context, Religion and the public sphere, Processes of recognition in society and law, Interreligious and intercultural dialogue |
Lisa Watanabe | Political Science | Transitions, radicalization, terrorism, Migration |
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 |
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