Ayyildiz, Iclal
Ottoman and Turkish history; History in entertainment media
After completing my Bachelor's degree in History, with a minor in Comparative Cultural and Religious Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich, I started my second degree at the Institute for Near
Bernhofer, Jasper
Biblical exegesis, codicology, critical editions, digital humanities, Islamicate world, Late Antiquity, manuscript cultures, Middle Ages, Middle Arabic, philosophy
I am a PhD candidate in Judaic Studies at Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle-Wittenberg, having obtained an MA in Semitic Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, with studies abroad at INALCO in Paris and
Graziani, Lola
History of the Hebrew language, Semitic languages, linguistics, Jewish thought, Jewish mysticism
I am an undergraduate student of Middle Eastern Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich. During the academic year 2021–2022, I studied abroad at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. At LMU, I
Hieke, Sebastian
manuscripts, codicology, Arabic Bible, Arabic documents, Syriac, Judeo-Arabic, history of grammar
I am a Student Assistant in the DFG-funded project “Independence and Diversity: Unknown Qaraite Bible Commentaries in Judeo-Arabic from the Early Classical Age”. Therein, I am assisting in the translation
Koss, Jonas
Genizah, Islamization, early structures of state, society and law, religious laws, global trade, contracts, structure of Jewish community, patronage and reciprocity
In 2019 I completed my studies in social sciences at Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, where I developed a special regional interest in the Near and Middle East. As a result, I decided
Kurowski, Noah
Kurdish studies, Arabic language, Arab media, Iraqi Kurdistan
I am currently in the BA program in Near and Middle East Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich. The first relevant regional language I started learning was Arabic, the second is
Posegay, Nick
Middle Eastern studies, intellectual history, Semitic languages, Genizah studies, archival history
I am a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge, researching interfaith exchange in the intellectual history of Syriac,
Russo, Mai
Phonetics, Psycholinguistics, Language acquisition
I’m an undergraduate student for Speech Science at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich. I was born and raised in Israel, with Hebrew as my mother tongue. Following my move to Germany,
Wiesbeck, Tilman
Arabic-speaking Jews, (post)colonialism, Orientalism, transnationalism, media science
Modern Hebrew and Arabic are the languages I have learned at the Institute for Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich. This enables me to combine different
Willimsky, Carolin
influence of religion, women as actors of history, Jewish–Muslim similarities, Hebrew, Arabic, radicalisation
I am a research assistant on the project “Beyond Conflict and Coexistence. Entangled History of Jewish-Arab Relations”. I have been enrolled in the master’s programme in Middle Eastern studies at
