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Name Academic disciplines Research interest
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