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Martin Aeschbacher Arab Studies, History, Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies Arabic countries, contemporary Middle East, politics, social interactions, literature
Amir Ali Anthropology, Islamic Studies Citizenship in Arab Societies, Radicalisation in the Arab World, Arab and Islamic Migration into Europe
Thair Alsaadi Arab Studies, Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Philosophy Philosophy, Secularism, Arabic world, European perceptions of Islam, Renaissance discourse, Nahda
Yasmine Berriane Middle Eastern Studies, Political Science Political Economy, electoral sociology, associations/NGOs, gender and politics, state-society relations, social movements, land rights, rural change
Jurg Bischoff Middle East History and Politics
Patricia Blessing Archeology, Art History, Islamic Studies Islamic architecture, medieval Islam
Monika Bolliger Arab Studies, History Middle East History and Politics, humanitarian aid, Armed Non-State Actors, Identity Politics, Peace Diplomacy, anthropology of Islam
Baptiste Brodard Anthropology, Islamic Studies, Sociology welfare activities of religious actors, Islam in Switzerland and in Western Europe, Islam and social change
Benoit Challand History, Sociology International Aid, civil society, Islamic charities, social movements and mobilization, revolution
Nicola Diday Middle Eastern Studies, Political Science Middle East History and Politics, Politics of Resistance in the Middle East, Islam in Europe, Peacebuilding, Transitional Justice and Dealing with the Past, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Palestine, Israel, Egypt
Benjamin Geer History, Intellectual History, Sociology nationalism, social movements, knowledge production
Francine Giese Art History Islamic art and architecture, al-Andalus, exchange and transfer processes Islamic World/West, Ottoman Empire, monument preservation in the Islamic World, appropriation of Islamic aesthetics in the West (Middle Ages/19th century), Orientalism, Islamic art and the museum
Sophie Glutz von Blotzheim Alsaadi Arab Studies, Linguistics, Literary Studies, Philology Arabic, Syria, Linguistics, pedagogy, poetry, Aristotle, Organon
Joan Grandjean Arab Studies, Art History Arabfuturims in art history, Arab SF, Ourouba
Michaela Grünenwald Arab Studies, History, Islamic Studies, Literary Studies, Middle Eastern Studies Arabic literature, theatre, Saudi Arabia, Iraq
Thomas Hayoz History, Islamic Studies History, Persian Historiography, Mughal History, Shia Islam, Sufism in Central Asia
Thomas Herzog Arab Studies, Islamic Studies Mamluks, Historiography, literature, poverty, wealth, rizq, zakat, sadaqa, almsgiving, charity, 'amma, khassa, popular literature, fictionality, mentalities - history of, imaginaries
Esma Isis-Arnautovic Islamic Studies, Theology Islamic Theology, quranic studies, gender studies, islamic jurisprudence
César Jaquier History, Middle Eastern Studies, Political Science state formation, Arab nationalism, Islamism
Aurélie Kerkadi Anthropology, Religious studies Arabic countries, anthropology of Islam, contemporary Middle East, gender, Religions in a religiously plural context
Sarah Khayati Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Political Science Middle Eastern intellectuals and activists in interwar Switzerland, Arab intellectual history, Political ideas of the 20th century, current political and social developments in the MENA region
Hilary Kilpatrick Middle Eastern Studies Arabic literature, Christian Arab culture
Aymon Kreil Anthropology love, sexuality, religious authority, anthropology of Islam, contemporary art, normality
Claude Krul translation into French of contemporary Syrian literature
Alice Küng Arab Studies, Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Sociology Religions in a religiously plural context

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