Eli Aisics

was a research assistant at the Near and Middle Eastern Studies Department in 2021–2023.

Ebru Akbiyik

was a research assistant at the Near and Middle Eastern Studies in 2021–2023.

Filiz Altun

was a research assistant at the Near and Middle Eastern Studies in 2020–2021.

Ludwig Amman

was a lecturer at the Near and Middle Eastern Studies in 2005 and 2010.

Muna Asenwar

was a PhD-Candidate in Near & Middle Eastern Studies (Supervisor: Aline Schlaepfer) from 2023-2025.

Alexander Balistreri

was an assistant at the Near and Middle Eastern Studies from 2017 to 2025.

Ugur Bayraktar

was a post-doctoral fellow with a federal excellence fellowship for foreign researchers at the Near and Middle Eastern Studies from 2018-2019.

Joachim Berg

was a research assistant at the Near and Middle Eastern Studies in 2019–2021. He was responsible in particular for the seminar library.

Ulrich Brandenburg

was a lecturer at the Near and Middle Eastern Studies in spring term 2015.

Hülya Canpolat-Tasci

was a lecturer for Ottoman in 2012-2016.

Süreyya Emre

was a research assistant at the seminar from 2017–2019.

Hartmut Fähndrich

was a lecturer at the Near and Middle Eastern Studies in fall term 2009.

Ranka Gašić

was an external collaborator in the SNSF project SIBA - Visual Approaches to Comparative Lifeworld Research in Yugoslavia and Turkey, 1920s and 1930s from 2013-2016.

Mazlum Gencer

was an administrative staff in the Near and Middle Eastern Studies from 2017-2018.

Olmo Gölz

was a lecturer at the Near and Middle Eastern Studies from 2014-2016.

Andreas Görke

was a private lecturer at the Near and Middle Eastern Studies from 2010-2015.

Nehir Gundogdu

was a guest researcher at the Near and Middle Eastern Studies in 2023-2024.

Hamid Hosravi

was a lecturer in the Persian language at the Near and Middle Eastern Studies from 2012-2013.

Lars Jervidalo

was a research assistant at the Near and Middle Eastern Studies in 2016-2019. He was responsible in particular for the seminar library.

Murat Kaya

was a lecturer for the Turkish language in 2016-2017.

Hans-Lukas Kieser

was a lecturer at the Near and Middle Eastern Studies in 2013.

Idris Kiwirra

was a lecturer in Arabic from 2007 to 2012.

Joël László

was an assistant at the Middle Eastern Studies in 2012-2013; in 2013-2016, he was a research assistant at the SNSF project "SIBA - Visual Approaches to Comparative Lifeworld Research in Yugoslavia and Turkey, 1920s and 1930s."

Stephanie Lori

was an assistant for Islamic Studies at the Near and Middle Eastern Studies from 2010-2011.

Milanka Matić

was a research assistant in the SNSF project "SIBA - Visual Approaches to Comparative Lifeworld Research in Yugoslavia and Turkey, 1920s and 1930s" from 2013-2016.

Astrid Meier

was a lecturer at the Near and Middle Eastern Studies from 2000 to 2010.

Sara Merdian

was a lecturer at the Near and Middle Eastern Studies in fall term 2015.

Natasa Miskovic

led the research project "SIBA - Visual approaches to comparative lifeworld research in Yugoslavia and Turkey, 1920s and 1930s" as an SNSF-funded professor from 2013 to 2018.

Ileana Moroni

was a post-doctoral fellow with a federal excellence fellowship for foreign researchers at the Near and Middle Eastern Studies from 2014-2015.

Sophie Moser

was a SNF-project collaborator from 2021 to 2025 and received her doctorate in Near & Middle Eastern Studies in 2024.

Parviz Mullojanov

was a lecturer at the Near and Middle Eastern Studies in fall term 2012 and was awarded a PhD in Near and Middle Eastern Studies in 2015.

Tobias Nünlist

was a lecturer and SNSF project staff member at the Near and Middle Eastern Studies in 2013-2017.

Daniel Rickenbacher

was a post-doctoral researcher in 2021-2023 with his own research project funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation. During this period, he was a lecturer at the Near and Middle Eastern Studies.

Shirin Sanati-Müller

was a lecturer for the Persian language at the Near and Middle Eastern Studies from 1998 to 2010.

Melania Savino

was a research associate at the Near and Middle Eastern Studies in 2014-2016.

Gregor Schoeler

was full professor of Islamic Studies at the Near and Middle Eastern Studies from 1982 to 2009.

Nadav Solomonovich

was a post-doctoral fellow with a Federal Excellence Fellowship for Foreign Researchers at the Near and Middle Eastern Studies from 2019-2020.

Ali Sonay

was a senior resident at the Near and Middle Eastern Studies from 2018-2021.

Ulrike Stehli-Werbeck

was a lector for Arabic language and literature from 2011 to 2021.

Udo Steinbach

was a lecturer at the Near and for Middle Eastern Studies from 2009 to 2010.

Elena Tempini

was a research assistant at the Near and Middle Eastern Studies in 2023-2024.

Alp Eren Topal

spent a research year at the Near and Middle Eastern Studies from 2014-2015 with a scholarship from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (Tübitak).

Saadet Türkmen

was a lecturer in Turkish from 2012-2016.

Anna Vakalis

was a lecturer in Turkish from 2011-2012 and was awarded a PhD in Near and Middle Eastern Studies in 2017.

Madeleine Voegeli

was a lecturer in the Persian language at the Near and Middle Eastern Studies from 2006 to 2012.

Mirjam Weidmann

was a research assistant at the Near and Middle Eastern Studies in 2018-2020.

Sevinç Yasargil

was an assistant at the Near and Middle Eastern Studies from 2013 to 2017.

Alp Yenen

was an assistant at the Near and Middle Eastern Studies from 2013 to 2018 and received his PhD in Near and Middle Eastern Studies in 2016.

Miriam Younes

was an assistant at the Near and Middle Eastern Studies from 2010 to 2012.