Name | Academic disciplines | Research interest |
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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 |
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 |
Elika Palenzona-Djalili | Art History | Art of the books, Persian Painting, Islamic Iranian Art, Iranian Contemporary Art |
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 |
K. Zeynep SARIASLAN | Turkey, state, border, development, gender, representation, media, news | |
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 |
Hansjörg Schmid | Religious studies, Theology | Muslims in Europe, interreligious ethics, welfare activities of religious actors, religions in the public sphere |
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 |
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 |
Lucienne Vaudan | Mena | |
Alessia Vereno | Travel Literature | |
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 |
Victor Willi | History | Islamist movements, Middle East History and Politics, Armed Non-State Actors, Islamism, Ideology, Organization |
Christian Wyler | Middle Eastern Studies | Sectarianism, Zeitgeschichte |
Thomas Würtz | Islamic Studies | Islamic Theology, Interfaith Dialogue, Translations of the Quran |
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