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| © Nikolaus Geyer |
Born in 1959 in Bremen
| Studied Arabian Literature in Damascus and Islamic Studies, Political Science and Journalism in Berlin | ||
| Gained doctorate in Egyptian Cinema | ||
| Documentary films for the SWR and WDR networks | ||
| Long-serving Middle East correspondent for weekly newspaper Die Zeit | ||
| Commentator on matters relating to the Middle East, the Arab world and Islam in the German, Swiss and Austrian media – including ARD, ZDF, RTL, SAT 1, 3sat, N24, n-tv, Spiegel-TV, and numerous ARD radio programmes as well as private radio stations | ||
| Writer for the newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau | ||
| Member of the advisory board for the Turkish business association ‘Tüsiad’ | ||
| Presentations on investment opportunities in the Arab world | ||
| Advisor for the German Foreign Office | ||
| Expert reports for GTZ and BMZ | ||
| Expert on Islamic violence case studies | ||
| Presentations in the USA, Europe, Asia and Africa on the tense relationship between the Western world and the Arab-Islamic world | ||
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Fact-finding missions in Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tadzhikistan, and Kirgizstan) for the Friedrich Ebert Foundation Guest lecturer at the Centre for Middle Eastern and Far Eastern Studies at the Philipps University in Marburg. | ||
Lives in Berlin |









