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Arabic speaking countries

Name Academic disciplines Research interest
Camryn 99 Anthropology 50
Martin Aeschbacher Arab Studies, History, Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies Arabic countries, contemporary Middle East, politics, social interactions, literature
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
Patricia Blessing Archeology, Art History, Islamic Studies Islamic architecture, medieval Islam
Monika Bolliger Arab Studies, History Middle East History and Politics, humanitarian aid, Armed Non-State Actors, Identity Politics, Peace Diplomacy, anthropology of Islam
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
Francine Giese Art History Islamic art and architecture, al-Andalus, exchange and transfer processes Islamic World/West, Ottoman Empire, monument preservation in the Islamic World, appropriation of Islamic aesthetics in the West (Middle Ages/19th century), Orientalism, Islamic art and the museum
Joan Grandjean Arab Studies, Art History Arabfuturims in art history, Arab SF, Ourouba
Michaela Grünenwald Arab Studies, History, Iranian Studies, Islamic Studies, Literary Studies, Middle Eastern Studies Iran, Sustainable Development, Arabic literature, theatre, Saudi Arabia, Iraq
Thomas Herzog Arab Studies, Islamic Studies Mamluks, Historiography, literature, poverty, wealth, rizq, zakat, sadaqa, almsgiving, charity, 'amma, khassa, popular literature, fictionality, mentalities - history of, imaginaries
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
Charlotte Malterre-Barthes Arab Studies, Middle Eastern Studies Architecture, Urbanism, Urbanization, Food Systems
Maged Mandour Political Science, Sociology Middle East History and Politics
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
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
Victor Willi History Islamist movements, Middle East History and Politics, Armed Non-State Actors, Islamism, Ideology, Organization
Thomas Würtz Islamic Studies Islamic Theology, Interfaith Dialogue, Translations of the Quran
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

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