Guests
Professors
Prof. Dr. Dimitri Gutas (2016-2021)
Einstein Visiting Fellow
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
Fellows and guest researchers (External Funding)
Dr. Maysoon Shibi (2023-2025)
Research Fellow Minerva Stiftung
The Poetry of Arab Women in the Modern Era: a prosodical inquiry into the reasons why
Dr. Sophia Brown (2021-2024)
Fellow Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung
‘Displaced Texts: Arabic Literature in the Anglophone Literary Marketplace
Dr. Nora E.H. Parr (2020-2023)
Alexander von Humboldt Fellow
‘What is the Arabic for ‘Trauma’? traces the emergence of a unique paradigm for the recounting of violence that is distinct from but in conversation with existing trauma theory.
Dr. Ayman Y. Atat (2020-2022)
Einstein Guest Researcher
ARABPHARMA: Arabic Pharmaceutical Manuscripts - a neglected field of study
Dr. Alexandre M. Roberts (2020-2021)
Fellow Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung
Matter Redeemed: Ancient Physics and Alchemy in Byzantium and the Islamic World
Dr. Zahiye Kundos (2020)
EUME Research Fellow
The Loss of the Muftī: Reimagining the Afterlife of Muḥammad ‘Abduh’s Islamic Modernism in Arabic Literature
Dr. James White (2019-2021)
Alexander von Humboldt Fellow
Literary Migrations: Arabic and Persian Poetry around the Arabian Sea, 1600-1700
Dr. Iyas Nasser (2018-2019)
Minerva PostDoc Research Fellowship
“Extended Simile” in the Pre- and Early Islamic Poetry and the Quran
Dr. Huda Abu Much (2016)
Research Fellow
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