Directorate

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-0 Email: zmo(at)zmo.de

Research project: History of Saudi Arabia in translocal perspective

Regional focus: Arab countries (notably Arabian Peninsula and Bilād al-Shām), Indian Ocean

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-223 Email: sonja.hegasy(at)zmo.de

Research project: Struggle over mined Territory: Historical Contingency in the Aftermath of the Moroccan Truth and Reconciliation Instance

Regional focus: Middle East and North Africa

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-230 Email: Kai.Kresse(at)zmo.de

Research project: Contested Knowledge, Sociality, and Religion: Intellectual Culture Under Postcolonial Conditions on the Swahili Coast and Beyond

Regional focus: Africa, especially East Africa and the Swahili coast, also to Southern Africa; transregional connections, especially across the Indian Ocean and the Muslim world; open for projects to all regions.

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-220 E Email: Stefan.Kirmse(at)zmo.de

Research project: Eurasian Borderlands, Past and Present

Regional focus: Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia, Caucasus

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-104 Email: Hanna.Janatka(at)zmo.de

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-104 Email: Noel.vandenHeuvel(at)zmo.de

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-224 Email: Lena.Herzog(at)zmo.de

Research project: Aller Anfang ist…? Ankommen multiperspektivisch – Schüler:innen forschen nach

Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient

Directorate

Prof. Dr. Ulrike Freitag

Dr. Sonja Hegasy

Prof. Dr. Kai Kresse

PD Dr. Stefan B. Kirmse

Hanna Janatka

Noël van den Heuvel

Lena Herzog