Laufende Forschungsprojekte

Arabic Literature Cosmopolitan, 2020-2027 (Leibniz Prize DFG) and AnonymClassic, 2018-2023 (ERC Advanced Grant): The Kalila and Dimna Research Project

Aristotle's Poetics in the West (of India) from Antiquity to the Renaissance. A Multilingual Edition, with Studies of the Cultural Contexts, of the Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin Translations, ongoing since 2016 (Einstein Stiftung Berlin and Leibniz Prize, DFG)

Closing the Gap in Non-Latin Script Data II, 2023-2026, Berlin University Alliance (BUA) Objective 3: Advancing Research Quality and Value

kalimat – Key Words for the Study of the Arabic Literary and Manuscript Tradition, 2024-2027, DFG

Magical Realisms and Speculative Literature, 2023-2026, EXC 2020 temporal Communities, Research Area 3 "Future Perfect" 
Subproject: Of Raging Bees and Vengeful Specters: The Poetics of Violence and Trauma in Arabic Magical Realist Writing from the 1970ies to the Present (2023–) Doctoral Research Project Sophie Schmid, DFG

The Poetry of Arab Women in the Modern Era: a prosodical inquiry into the reasons WHY?, Maysoon Shibi, 2023-2026, Minerva Foundation & Freie Universität Berlin/Arabic Studies

Monsters Among Us: A Cross-Cultural Philological Study of Othering, Doctoral Research Project Iyad Malouf, 2025-2026, Minerva Foundation

Liberated Fantasy: Palestinian Children’s Literature across Borders, Loaay Wattad, 2024-2026, Minerva Foundation

Abgeschlossene Projekte

Arabic Pharmaceutical Manuscripts — A Neglected Field of Study, 2020-2022, Einstein Stiftung Berlin

Chemistry and Its Consequences in Byzantium and the Islamic World, 2023-2024

Closing the Gap in Non-Latin Script Data I, 2021-2023, Berlin University Alliance

Code-switching in religious, philosophic and secular Judeo-Arabic Texts

Creativity and Controversy in the Early Modern Islamic World: The Intellectual World of Burhan al-Din al Biqa'i, 1406-1480 (Kluge Fellowship at Library of Congress)

Displaced Texts: Arabic Literature in the Anglophone Literary Marketplace, 2021-2024, Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung

Junior Research Group "Arabic Philology and Textual Practices in the Early Modern Period"

Kalila and Dimna – Wisdom Encoded, 2015-2017

Literary Migrations: Arabic and Persian Poetry around the Arabian Sea, 1600-1700, 2019-2021, Alexander von Humboldt +Stiftung

Luther’s Qur’ān. Pro/claiming the Christian Reformation in Early Twentieth-Century Cairo

Matter Redeemed: Ancient Physics and Alchemy in Byzantium and the Islamic World, 2020-2021, Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung

MEMORY SPACES: Mapping Oral History in Mosul, 2023-2024, Gerda Henkel Stiftung

PalREAD – Country of Words: Reading and Reception of Palestinian Literature from 1948 to the Present, 2018-2024, ERC Starting Grant

The Role of Arabic-Hebrew Translation in the Construction of the Arabic Other and Its Culture in the Eyes of the Jewish Reader throughout 1948-1993

Verses and Sayings. Impetus and Range of Scholarly and Popularising Discourses in the Arabic World, 2021-2024, @ CRC 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"

What is the Arabic for ‘Trauma'?, 2020-2023, Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung

Zukunftsphilologie! Revisiting the Canons of Textual Scholarship