Organization

The program 'Europe in the Middle East - the Middle East in Europe' is carried out under the responsibility of the President of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, the head of the Advisory Board of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and the Rektor of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. In scholarly terms, the program is directed by the representatives of the research fields. They form the Collegium of the program.

The Collegium

The Collegium currently consists of the following persons:

• Prof. Dr. Ulrike Freitag,  Spokesperson (Director of the Zentrum Moderner Orient)
• Prof. Dr. Gudrun Krämer (Institut for Islamic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin)
• Nora Lafi, Ph.D. (Zentrum Moderner Orient)
• Prof. Dr. Angelika Neuwirth (Seminar for Semitic and Arabic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin)
• Prof. Dr. Friederike Pannewick (Centrum für Nah- und Mitteloststudien/Arabistik, Philipps-Universität Marburg)
• Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, Ph.D. (Lecturer of Jewish History, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva)
• Samah Selim, Ph.D. (Rutgers University, New Jersey)
• Prof. Dr. em. Stefan Wild (Islamic Studies, Universität Bonn)
• Prof. Dr. Stefan Litwin (Department of Music, The University of North Carolina/ Chapel Hill, Hochschule für Musik Saar)
• Prof. Dr. Cilja Harders (Otto-Suhr-Institut for Politic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin)
• Dr. Stefan Weber (Direcotr, Museum for Islamic Art, Berlin)

The Advisory Board

The project is supervised by an academic advisory board that consists of distinguished scholars in the research fields with institutional responsibilities in Berlin and personalities who represent the cultural and political dimensions of 'Europe in the Middle East - the Middle East in Europe'.

The Advisory Board consists of the following persons:

• Prof. Dr. Yehuda Elkana (Sociology, Rektor of the Central European University, Budapest, Senior Advisor to the Rektor of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin)
• Prof. Dr. Dr. hc. Hartmut Kaelble (Social History, Humboldt Universität Berlin)
• Navid Kermani, Dr. phil. (writer and scholar, Köln)
• Prof. Dr. Christoph Markschies (Church History, Humboldt Universität Berlin)
• Prof. Dr. Thomas Risse (Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin)
• Prof. Dr. Sigrid Weigel (Literary Studies, Technische Universität Berlin and Director of the Zentrum für Literaturforschung, Berlin)

Contact

Georges Khalil
Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
Wallotstr. 19
D-14193 Berlin

Tel:  +49 - (0)30 - 89001 258
Fax: +49 - (0)30 - 89001 200