Unit for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Societies

Ass. Prof. Dr. Nijmi Edres

Assistant Professor, Co-Director of SACS

Fachbereich Mittlerer Osten und muslimische Gesellschaften

E-Mail
nijmi.edres@unibe.ch
Postal Address
University of Bern
Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies SACS
Lerchenweg 36
3012 Bern
Consultation Hour
Thursday, 14-15:30. Please make an appointment here:
https://calendly.com/edres-sprechstunde/consultation-meeting

Since 2023 Assistant Professor for Islamic Studies, University of Bern

2023: Italian habilitation as Associate Professor for “History of Muslim countries” (Abilitazione scientifica nazionale come “Professore di seconda fascia”, macrosettore 10/N1, Culture del Vicino Oriente Antico, del Medio Oriente e dell’Africa, settore L-OR/10, Storia dei paesi islamici)

Spring-Fall 2022: Post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Foreign Languages, Bergen University (Norway) in the project Project “CanCode: Canonization and Codification of Islamic Legal Texts”, co-financed by Trond Mohn Foundation and the University of Bergen and directed by Dr. Eirik Hovden

2019- 2022: Post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Knowledge in Transition of the The Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute, Braunschweig (Germany)

2019-2022: Coordinator of the international network working on the project “Textbooks in the MENA-Region”, The Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute

2020-2022: Team leader of the research group “Religion im Plural”, The Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute

Spring 2019: Post-doctoral researcher at the Center for the Study of Islam, Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Exeter University (UK) in the international project “Understanding Shari’a: Past Perfect, Imperfect Present” (USPPIP), financed by a HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area) grant and directed by Prof. Dr. Robert Gleave

2016- 2018: Post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Germany) in the international project “Understanding Shari’a: Past Perfect, Imperfect Present” financed by a HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area) grant and directed by Prof. Dr. Robert Gleave, team of Prof. Irene Schneider

2015-2016: Adjunct Professor at the Department of Humanities (Master of Arts in Modern Languages for International Communication and Cooperation) of the University of Macerata (Italy)

2015-2016: Cooperation with Milan University, Department of Linguistic Mediation Sciences and Intercultural Studies, Seminar course “Lives that matter” (“Vite degne”), together with Fabrice Olivier Dubosc

2015 Ph.D. in “Civilizations, cultures and societies of Asia and Africa”, curriculum Arabic and Islamic Studies, Italian Institute of Oriental Studies (Sapienza University of Rome)

2011-2015: Ph.D. candidate, Italian Institute of Oriental Studies, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)

2011: MA  “Oriental Languages and Civilizations”, Sapienza University of Rome

2008: BA  “Linguistic and Cultural Mediation Sciences”, Department of Linguistic Mediation Sciences and Intercultural Studies, Milan University

  • History of Modern and Contemporary Palestine-Israel
  • Islamic Law (gender, family law)
  • Minority rights and Trans-culturalism
  • Education in North Africa and the Middle East
  • Bergen University, project “CanCode: Canonization and Codification of Islamic Legal Texts”, in cooperation with Dr. Monika Lindbekk (https://www.uib.no/en/cancode ) (concluded)
  • Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute (GEI), project “Doing gender in Arabic textbooks” (concluded)
  • Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute, Project “School textbooks in the MENA region” (concluded)
  • Exeter University (Center for the Study of Islam, Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies) and Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, project “Understanding Shari’a" (https://www.usppip.com ) (concluded)

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