Team
Professors
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Beatrice Gründler
Academic advisor bachelor's program Arabic Studies; principal investigator "Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic/ALC"
Prof. Dr. Isabel Toral
Director Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies; director MESMOM project, deputy PI to the Kalīla and Dimna research project
Prof. Dr. Refqa Abu-Remaileh
Professor
Associate Professor, Modern Arabic Literature and Film, PI ERC project PalREAD
Honorary Professors
Prof. Dr. Renate Jacobi (†)
Honorary Professor
Lecturers
Dr. Montserrat Rabadán Carrascosa
Lecturer for Modern Standard Arabic, Classical Arabic and Media Arabic
Research Associates
Victoria Mummelthei
teaching, researching, academic advising, communicating
Deputy academic advisor for the master’s programs Arabic Studies and Interdisciplinary Studies of the Middle East (ISME); deputy academic advisors BA Arabic Studies; study planning;
Kalīla and Dimna – Arabic Literature Cosmopolitan / AnonymClassic
Aristotle's Poetics in the West (of India) from Antiquity to the Renaissance
Verses and Sayings (SFB 980 Epistemes in Motion)
Dr. Jan J. van Ginkel
CRC Project C10 "Verses and Sayings. Impetus and Range of Scholarly and Popularising Discourses in the Arabic World"
Isla Karademir
CRC Project C10 "Verses and Sayings. Impetus and Range of Scholarly and Popularising Discourses in the Arabic World"
EXC2020 Temporal Communities
Closing the Gap in Non-Latin Script Data (Berlin University Alliance)
Secretary
Administrative staff
Agnes Kloocke
Coordination Research Grants (external funding)
Student Assistants
Doga Akpinar
Stud. Researcher Arabic Studies / Prof. Dr. Isabel Toral
Mentoring
Tutoring
Joudy Sido Bozan
Tutor
Tutor Islamic Studies/Arabic Studies/Semitic Studies (help with ABV-internships-affin-homeworks-bachelor thesis, from 3rd semester)
Fellows and Grantees
Dr. Kirill Dmitriev (2023-2027)
Research Fellow, Edition "Briefwechsel Heinrichs-Jacobi"
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. Alexandre M. Roberts (2020/21, 2023/24)
Fellow Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung
Chemistry and Its Consequences in Byzantium and the Islamic World (2023/24)
Dr. Sophia Brown (2021-2024)
Fellow Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung
Displaced Texts: Arabic Literature in the Anglophone Literary Marketplace
Former Fellows and Grantees
Dr. Nora E.H. Parr (2020-2023)
Fellow Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung
‘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 "Wissenschaftsfreiheit"
ARABPHARMA: Arabic Pharmaceutical Manuscripts - a neglected field of study
Dr. James White (2019-2021)
Fellow Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung
Literary Migrations: Arabic and Persian Poetry around the Arabian Sea, 1600-1700
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. Iyas Nasser (2018-2019)
Research Fellow Minerva Stiftung
“Extended Simile” in the Pre- and Early Islamic Poetry and the Quran
