Lisa Franke (Ghent University)
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Department: Languages and Cultures
Nationality: German
Country: Belgium
Interests (keywords): Arabic Studies/Islamic Studies/Anthropology: Cultures and societies of the modern and contemporary Arab-Islamic world (North Africa, Near and Middle East)
alternative (non-)religious movements and transformations of religious ideas; religious conflicts; religious-dynamic developments in Egypt; history of Palestine; (religious) education: Knowledge spaces and knowledge orders; processes of secularism and modernisation; martyrdom in Islam: paradise and ideas of paradise (eschatology); Sufi brotherhoods; Islamism; gender studies: gender and gender constructions, gendered space; concepts and ideas of space and spatial configurations; iconographic representations; oral and visual memory; oral history; resistance and agency; discourse analysis.
North Africa, Near and Middle East esp. Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Sudan, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Oman, the UAE
Highest Degree: PhD
Degree Awarding Institution: University of Leipzig, Germany
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