I’m looking forward to participate in the lecture series “20 years after 9/11”, co-organized by the Universities of Freiburg and Basel. Together with Alex Balistreri…
I’ve been appointed a visiting professor of Culture and Society of Islam at the Institute for the Study of Islamic Culture and Religion, Goethe-University Frankfurt,…
My chapter on Shi’ism in South Asia has been published in the Routledge Handbook on Islam in Asia. Please also check out the many great…
I’ve contributed to the “The 9/11 Legacies Project”, established by by Ameem Lutfi (Research Fellow, Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore) and Kevin L.…
Together with my colleagues Isabelle Dolezalek (University of Greifswald) and Michael Saliba (University of Stuttgart), I have organised the workshop “Welcome to E-Topia” in Berlin…
Together with Thomas Pierret, I’m organizing a workshop on “Utopias in the Middle East and Beyond,” to be held in London in February 2022. The…
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I’ve reviewed Thomas Hegghammer’s fascinating account of Arab involvement in the Afghan Jihad of the 1980s (Cambridge University Press, 2020) for the International Journal of…
I’m excited to participate in an upcoming workshop on “Islamic Third Worldism”, organized by Lin Hongxuan (National University of Singapore) and Teren Sevea (Harvard Divinity…
What to expect from the upcoming Iranian presidential elections? I had a chance to discuss what we can expect the with the Swiss radio station…