Curriculum Vitae
Academic background.
From Fez via Göttingen to Casablanca – from German Studies and Intercultural German Studies to the habilitation.
Academic background
2026
Habilitation in German Language and LiteratureUniversité Hassan II Casablanca
2016
PhD (Dr. phil.), Intercultural German StudiesUniversity of Göttingen · Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hiltraud Casper-Hehne
2010
Master of Arts, Intercultural German Studies / German as a Foreign LanguageUniversity of Göttingen
2007
Licence (B.A.), German StudiesSidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez
Academic posts
since June 2026
Associate ProfessorUniversité Hassan II Casablanca, FLSH Aïn Chock, Department of German
since 2026
DAAD Local Lecturer (Ortslektor)German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Nov. 2021 – May 2026
Assistant ProfessorUniversité Hassan II Casablanca, FLSH Aïn Chock, Department of German
Aug. 2015 – June 2019
Research Associate (Postdoc)University of Göttingen, Collaborative Research Centre 1136 ‘Education and Religion’
May 2012 – June 2015
Research AssistantUniversity of Göttingen, Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies; research project ‘Göttingen Database and Handbook on Classical Islamic Pedagogy’ (GöDIP)
Oct. 2010 – May 2011
Research AssistantEDRIS Courant Research Centre, Junior Research Group 3 ‘Revelation, Reason and Identity’, and the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Göttingen
May 2008 – April 2012
Research AssistantLower Saxony State and University Library, Göttingen
Oct. 2008
Work placementDepartment of German Studies, University of Burgundy, Dijon
Research Group and Collaboration
Member
Comparative Linguistics Research GroupLaboratory for Studies and Research in the Cognitive and Human Sciences: Psychology, Language and History, FLSH Aïn Chock
Affiliated
Associated researcherUniversity of Göttingen, Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies I
Academic events
20–27 July 2025
Co-organiser of the section ‘Language, Literature and Knowledge II: Natural Sciences, Environmental Sciences and Engineering as Topics in German Studies’XVth IVG Congress: ‘Language and Literature in Times of Crisis’, Graz
8 May 2024
International workshop with PhD students from the Avicenna Scholarship ProgrammeFLSH Aïn Chock, Université Hassan II Casablanca
2 November 2023
International conference on ‘Migration, integration and transnational engagement of Moroccans worldwide’In collaboration with Rahim Hajji (Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences) and Mounir Azzaoui (Hanns Seidel Foundation), FLSH Aïn Chock, Université Hassan II Casablanca
24–27 May 2018
International Symposium: ‘Islamic Ethics as Educational Discourse: The Thought and Impact of the Classical Muslim Thinker Miskawayh (d. 1030)’In collaboration with Sebastian Günther, University of Göttingen
11–12 May 2017
International Conference: ‘Islamic Ethics in Miskawaih: His Work and Its Reception’In collaboration with Sebastian Günther, University of Göttingen
Awards and Scholarships
2017
Dr Walther Liebehenz Foundation Encouragement Award“German as a language of science”
2016
Printing grant from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation for the doctoral thesis
2012–2015
Recipient of a scholarship from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation’s postgraduate funding programme
Oct. 2010 – May 2011
DAAD Scholarship (Research Assistantships)
2008–2010
Recipient of a basic grant from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation
Oct. 2008
Scholarship from the Franco-German Youth Office
2007
Award from the Université Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah, Fez, for outstanding graduates
March 2007
DAAD scholarship for the translation course in Germersheim
Memberships, committees and qualifications
Memberships
International Association for German Studies (IVG), Society for Intercultural German Studies (GiG), German-Moroccan Competence Network (DMK), Euro-Mediterranean Knowledge Space Foundation (WEM), German Working Group on the Near East (DAVO), European Union of Arabists and Islamic Studies Scholars (UEAI)
Committees
Member of the selection committees for scholarships and the Solidarity Fund of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, as well as for scholarships from the Avicenna-Studienwerk
Qualifications
Sworn court interpreter and authorised translator of legal documents for Arabic and French since October 2013 (sworn in at the Regional Court of Hanover); 2013: University certificate in ‘German Legal and Administrative Terminology’, Nürtingen-Geislingen University of Applied Sciences; 2012–2015: freelance lecturer and trainer in intercultural communication and diversity competence
Languages
Arabic (native), German (business fluent), French (very good), English (good academic reading skills)