Name | Academic disciplines | Research interest |
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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 |
Jurg Bischoff | Middle East History and Politics | |
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 |
Michaela Grünenwald | Arab Studies, History, Islamic Studies, Literary Studies, Middle Eastern Studies | 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 |
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 |
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) |
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 |
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 |
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