Auteur: Oliver Tappe

Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf is Professor for Middle Eastern Studies and Director of the Institute of Middle Eastern and South East Asian Studies at the University of Cologne. She obtained her Ph D in Islamic Studies with a thesis on the Egyptian Islamist Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) and received her postdoctoral qualification degree (Habilitation) with a study on Palestinian narratives of the Arab-Israeli war 1948. She has carried out field research in various countries of the Middle East and has published widely on transformations of religious concepts, Islamism, (forced) migration in the Middle East, Islam in Germany, and popular culture in Middle Eastern societies. Ulrike Lindner is part of the interdisciplinary research group « Migration and Labour » at the Global South Studies Center (University of Cologne, Germany). Gesine Müller is professor of romanist philology at the University of Cologne and part of the interdisciplinary research group « Migration and Labour » at the Global South Studies Center (University of Cologne, Germany). Oliver Tappe is part of the interdisciplinary research group « Migration and Labour » at the Global South Studies Center (University of Cologne, Germany). Michael Zeuske (Univ.-Prof. Dr.) es profesor del Centro de Estudios sobre Dependencia y Esclavitudes (Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies) de la Universidad de Bonn, Alemania. Su trabajo de investigación enfoca diferentes formas de dependencias asimétricas y esclavitud en el hemisferio atlántico (1400-1900), en la historia global de la esclavitud (20000 a.C.-hoy) y en diferentes esclavitudes locales y tráficos de esclavos también a nivel microhistórico.