Автор: Francis Owtram Annemarie Profanter

Annemarie Profanter is an Associate Professor in Intercultural Pedagogy at the Faculty of Education of the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy. Since 2004, she has resided periodically in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the Arabian Peninsula whilst completing fieldwork and visiting fellowships in Pakistan, Oman and Saudi Arabia. She is working on projects addressing Arab women”s experiences in the Gulf, and has published a documentary on polygyny in collaboration with the Omani Ministry. Her current research includes Islamic integration and migration issues in Europe.Francis Owtram holds a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics, and is the author of A Modern History of Oman: Formation of the State since 1920 (IB Tauris, 2004). His research interests include the international relations and ethno-politics of the Middle East. He has taught and researched at the University of Kurdistan Hawler, Iraq, and is currently an Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter, and a Gulf History Specialist at the British Library.