Workshop on VR in the Academy
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…
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CFP: Utopias in the Middle East and Beyond
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…
Zoom-Conversation on Afghanistan (Thursday, August 26, in German)
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/afghanistan-jenseits-des-grellen-medialen-lichts-tickets-168176401143
Review of “The Caravan: Abdallah Azzam and the Rise of Global Jihad”
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…
Participation in Workshop on “Islamic Third Worldism”
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…
Interview on Iran’s upcoming presidential elections (in German)
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…
New Analysis of Iran’s Regional Policy
I’ve written a short popular piece (in German) for the magazine “Aufbau” (Vol. 88, no. 03, June 2021) on Iran’s contradictory regional role between the…
New Article “A Direct Flight to Revolution: Maududi, Divine Sovereignty, and the 1979-Moment in Iran”
My latest article has been published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (FirstView): https://doi.org/10.1017/S135618632100033X. It is available Open Access for everyone to read.…
Review of “The ‘Ulama in Contemporary Pakistan: Contesting and Cultivating an Islamic Republic”
I’ve reviewed Mashal Saif’s (Clemson University) new provocative and exctiting book (Cambridge University Press, 2020) on Pakistan’s contemporary religious scholars and how they engage the…