Our guests 25.12.2014
December 19, 2014Religious conflict – no Peace on earth?
Beatrice Gründler - is head of the department of Semitic and Arabic Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. She studied in Strassburg, Tübingen and Harvard, where she completed her P.h.D. at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cavitations. Her main area of focus is classic Arabic literature in its social context.
Daniel Dagan – is an Israeli journalist who was born in Cairo and grew up in France and on an Israeli kibbutz. He studied politics and economics and has worked for various publications, as well as radio and TV stations in Jerusalem, Paris, Brussels, Madrid, Bonn, Washington and other capital cities. For years, he reported from Berlin for the Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA), the country' s leading public radio and TV station.
Michael Lüders – Born in Bremen, in 1959, Lüders studied Arabic literature in Damascus as well as Islamic studies, political science and publishing in Berlin. His dissertation focused on the Egyptian cinema. His works include documentaries for German p ublic television and a long stint as Middle East correspondent for the “Die Zeit” newspaper. Lüders lives in Berlin, working as a political adviser, publicist and author on middle eastern issues.