Team
Professors
Prof. Dr. Shabo Talay
Professor of Semitic Studies
Dean of the Department of History and Cultural Studies
Researchers
Researchers (third-party funding) and Guests
Dr. Assaf Bar-Moshe
Researcher
DFG Project: Unrevealing the Mesopotamian Jewish Arabic Dialect Continuum
Dr. Ophir Carmel Fofliger
Minerva Foundation Fellow
Project: The Palestinian Arabic Language Variety of Masāfer Yaṭṭa: Narrowing the Gap between Synchronic and Diachronic Semitic Linguistics
Dr. Yulia Furman
Researcher
DFG Project: East Syrian Historiography at the Dawn of Islam: Study and Digital Edition of “The Book of the Main Points” by John bar Penkaye
Dr. Fabio Gasparini
Researcher
DFG Project: Naming the Landscape in the Modern South Arabian Languages
Dr. Simcha Gross
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow
Project: Good Fences Make Bad Neighbors: Communities on the Roman-Sasanian Frontier
Dr. Stephanie Schewe
Researcher
DFG Project: The Recitation of Holy Texts: Processes of Exchange in the Iranian-Mesopotamian Region. A Jewish, Christian, Mandaean and Muslim Legacy under Threat
Lecturer
Secretariat
Student employees
