Ghassan El Masri

Biography

Before joining BaFID, Ghassan El Masri was deputy head of the Department of Arabic Studies at the Free University of Berlin. Before that, he headed the DFG research project “From Desolation to Resurrection” at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Potsdam. His main academic interest is the Koran in its literary and historical contexts on the one hand and its role in Islamic religion and theology on the other. He also specialises in the interplay between politics and theology in modern Arab and Middle Eastern regions.