Intercultural German Studies
Communication in everyday university life, even beyond language, and interculturality as a framework for knowledge.
Intercultural German StudiesGerman as a Foreign Language
Associate Prof. Dr.Yassir El Jamouhi
Associate Professor of Intercultural German Studies and German as a Foreign Language at the Université Hassan II Casablanca. Associated researcher at the University of Göttingen.
ProfessorshipUniversité Hassan II Casablanca
AffiliatedUniversity of Göttingen
Habilitation2026
Doctorate2016, Göttingen
About me
Research and teaching between Morocco and Germany.
I am an Associate Professor of Intercultural German Studies at the Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines Aïn Chock, Université Hassan II Casablanca, and an associated researcher at the University of Göttingen. I studied in Fez and Göttingen, where I was awarded my doctorate in 2016. Before moving to Casablanca in 2021, I was a member of the Collaborative Research Centre 1136 ‘Education and Religion’. I completed my habilitation in 2026 and have held my current position since June 2026.
I see research and teaching as a unity: questions of foreign language acquisition and of teaching German language and culture in Morocco shape my seminars as much as my academic work.
Key areas of research
What I’m working on.
How are knowledge, language and values transmitted, absorbed and reinterpreted between cultural spheres – particularly in the German-Moroccan context?
German as a Foreign Language
Foreign language acquisition and the teaching of the German language and culture in Morocco.
Knowledge circulation
Migration and reception between Morocco and the German-speaking world.
Islamic Ethics
Discourses on education in classical Islam, particularly in the works of Miskawaih.
Recently published · Edited volume 2026
Interkulturelle Brücken bauen – in Forschung, Lehre und Verwaltung
Festschrift for Prof. Dr. Hiltraud Casper-Hehne. Göttingen: Universitätsverlag Göttingen.
Latest contributions
- Mentoring und Interkulturalität2026 · PDF
- Einleitung als Brücke2026 · PDF
- Die Rezeption marokkanischer Intellektueller in der deutschsprachigen Forschung2025 · Springer
Current activities
What’s happening right now.
October 2026
DAAD delegation trip to Germany
Four Moroccan universities are jointly presenting their degree programmes in German.
16 September 2026Lecture: German-Moroccan university cooperation in practice
iDA seminar ‘Regional Expertise: Morocco’ (online).
2026‘Assīra’ project proposal submitted to the DAAD
Göttingen, Nizwa and Casablanca: Autobiography in Literary Studies and Foreign Language Teaching.
Contact
For enquiries regarding research, teaching and collaborations, the best way to contact me is by email.
yassir.eljamouhi@univh2c.maFaculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines Aïn Chock, Avenue 2 Mars, Hay Inara, Casablanca