Middle East
Dr. Reinhard Bernbeck
Professor of Archaeology
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute for Near Eastern Archaeology
Fabeckstraße 23-25, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Anthropology of the Near East
- Archaeological theories
- Political dimension of archaeology (esp. Palestine, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan)
- Archaeology and colonialism
- Emergence of social inequality in Mesopotamia
- Neolithic (Middle East)
- Cultural anthropological issues
- Archaeology in places of the 20th century
Dr. Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum
Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Fabeckstr. 23-25, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Ancient Near East
- Assyrians
- Babylonians
- Sumerians
- Akkadians
- Israel
- Syria
- Iraq
- Middle East
- Astronomy
- Astrology
- Science
- Early states
- School and education in pre-modern societies
- History of knowledge
- Oldest writing
- Decipherment
- Nimrud
- Nineveh
- Libraries
- Cuneiform
- Sumerian
- Akkadian
- Ancient Near East, Near East, Middle East: History and cultural history
- 4. - 1st millennium BC
- History of the influences of the Ancient Near East to the present day
- Ancient Near East and Europe: mythology
Dr. Ulrike Freitag
Professor of Islamic Studies
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Islamic Studies, Freie Universität and Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO)
oder Fabeckstr. 23-25 (Freie Universität)
Kirchweg 33 (ZMO), 14129 Berlin, 14195 Berlin
Phone (Office)
838-52487 (Freie Universität), 80307-0 und 80307-229 (ZMO)
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Areas of Expertise
- Modern history of the Middle East with emphasis on the Arabian Peninsula and the Levant (esp. Syria, Lebanon)
- Migration
- Urbanization processes
Dr. Hajo Funke
Professor of Political Science
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Fundamentals of Politics
Ihnestr. 22, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- National Socialism
- Dealing with National Socialism
- Right-wing extremism
- Issues of democracy and political culture
- Middle East (Israel/Palestine conflict, the situation in Iran and Iraq)
Boris Ginzburg
Institute for East European Studies
Politics
Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin
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Interviews are also possible in Russian language
Areas of Expertise
- post-Soviet region / Russia, Belarus and Ukraine
- German-Russian relations
- political impact of sanctions on autocracies
- Non-systemic opposition in Russia
- organized crime in the post-Soviet space
- Israeli foreign policy
Theocharis Grigoriadis, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics
School of Business & Economics
Institute for East European Studies
Economics
Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Comparative economic systems
- Economic history
- Political economics
- Development assistance
Jannis Grimm
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science
INTERACT Center for Interdisciplinary Peace and Conflict Research
Altensteinstrasse 48, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Protest and social movements
- Civil society
- Radicalization and political violence
- Human rights violations and state violence
- Repression, surveillance, and authoritarianism
- North Africa
- Near/Middle East
- Democratization and social transformation
- Arab Spring
- Islamism
- Muslim Brotherhood
- Research ethics
- Safe field research
- Research conditions in authoritarian contexts
Dr. Gülistan Gürbey
Professor of Political Science
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Ihnestr. 22, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Turkey
- Cyprus
- Kurds
- Iraq
- Integration
- Middle East
- Kurdish conflict
- Cyprus conflict
- Relations between Turkey and the EU
- German-Turkish relations
- Relations between Turkey and Greece
- Kurds in northern Iraq
- Turkish foreign and security policy
- Turkish domestic politics
- Migration and integration policy – Germany / EU
Dr. Cilja Harders
Professor of Political Science
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Center for Middle Eastern and North African Politics
Ihnestr. 22, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Egypt
Dr. Sabine Hofmann
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Center for Middle Eastern and North African Politics
Ihnestr. 21, 14195 Berlin
Phone (Office)
Mobile
Homepage
Areas of Expertise
- Economy, politics, and society of Israel and Palestine
- Middle East conflict system
- Israel-Palestine conflict and regulation process
Dr. Tal Ilan
Professor of Jewish Studies
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute of Jewish Studies
Fabeckstraße 23-25, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Israel
- Israeli culture and literature
- Science and academic research in Israel
Dr. Johannes Niehoff-Panagiotidis
Professor of Balkan Studies
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of Greek and Latin Languages and Literatures
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
Phone (Office)
Mobile
Areas of Expertise
- Balkans, especially Greece and Cyprus
- Religion in the Balkans
- Religion in the Middle East
- Jews in the Balkans
- Relationship between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Dr. Carola Richter
Professor of Political Science
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for Media and Communication Studies
International Communication
Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Arab media (al-Jazeera, Egypt, Libya)
- Protest movements in the Arab world, Islamists
- Foreign reporting, War reporting
- Image of Islam
- Media and the Middle East conflict
- Media and migration / refugees
Dr. Shabo Talay
Professor of Semitic Studies
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Seminar for Semitic and Arabic Studies
Semitic Studies
Fabeckstraße 23-25, Berlin 14195
Areas of Expertise
- Semitic languages
- Arabic and Arabic dialectology (i.e., Syria, Iraq, Turkey)
- Aramaic languages in the Near East and in Europe
- Oriental Christians, past and present
- Christian-Muslim coexistence in the Near East
- Ethnic group of Arameans, Assyrians, Chaldeans
- Coexistence of Kurds and Syrian-Aramaic Christians (Turkey, Syria, Iraq)