Islam
Dr. Schirin Amir-Moazami
Professor of Islamic Studies
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute for Islamic Studies
Fabeckstraße 23-25, 14195 Berlin
Phone (Office)
Homepage
Areas of Expertise
- Islam in Europe
- Religious policy
- Secularization concepts
- Political theory (especially: liberalism theories, feminist theories, theories of multiculturalismn)
- Islam and gender
Dr. Hansjörg Dilger
Professor of Social Anthropology
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Landoltweg 9-11, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Anthropology of religion, especially Pentecostal churches and Islam in Africa
- Christian-Muslim relations
- Migration and religion
- Medical anthropology (in particular HIV / AIDS, international health policies, migration and health)
- Research on masculinity and kinship
- Anthropology of education and learning in East Africa
- Regional: Eastern and Southern Africa (especially Tanzania and South Africa)
- Context of migration
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)
Homepage
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. Gudrun Krämer
Professor of Islamic Studies
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute of Islamic Studies
Fabeckstr. 23-25, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Islam / Islamism
- Modern Middle East
- History of the Middle East
- Islamic law
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
Jürgen Schaflechner
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Landoltweg 9-11, 14195 Berlin
Please note
Interviews can be given in German, English, Urdu/Hindi
Areas of Expertise
- Pakistan
- Populism / religious populism
- Politics of resentment
- Religious minorities in Pakistan
- Blasphemy / blasphemy laws
- Forced conversions to Islam
- Popular culture in Pakistan
- Antisemitism in Pakistan
- Islam
- Hinduism
- Ethnology of religion
- Ritual journeys
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)
Dr. Jochen Töpfer
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for East European Studies
Division of Sociology
Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Social, political, and economic aspects of the transformation processes in Eastern Europe
- Emphasis on southeastern Europe / former Yugoslavia / Albania
- Privatization
- Informality and neo-feudalism
- Parties and political elites
- Sociology of religion: structures, actors, processes
- Religion and society
- Religion and politics
- Religion and conflict