2012 - present
Professor of Islamic Studies, University of Cologne, Germany
2011 - 2012
Visiting professor of Islamic Studies; Department Islamic Studies, University Bonn
2010 - 2012
Post-doc fellow; Gerda Henkel Foundation in the Special Programme “Islam, the Modern Nation State and Transnational Movements
2008 - 2010
Visiting professor; Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Department Islamic Studies, University Marburg
2008
Postdoctoral lecture qualification (Habilitation) in Islamic Studies; University Bonn (Thesis title: “Remembering the nakba: Palestinian narratives of the first Arab-Israeli War 1948”, published 2008)
2001
Ph.D. Islamic studies; University Gießen (Thesis title: „Governance and society: The Islamist Sayyid Qutb and his reception“, published 2003)
1997 - 2006
Visiting Lecturer (University of Frankfurt, University of Marburg, University of Gießen)
1995
Graduation University Gießen; Arabic and Islamic Studies; German as a Foreign Language
1993 - 1994
Arabic Teaching Institute for Foreigners in Damascus and University of Damascus; Arabic Language, Literature and History
1990 - 1999
Teacher for German as a Foreign Language
1990
Graduate Diploma: Teacher Training University of Kiel; Arts, German Literature and Biology
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