Interview

After the fall of the Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad last weekend, the country now faces an uncertain future. Prof. Mathias Rohe shared his perspective on the current situation in Syria on the German television programme Frankenschau aktuell.

Haris E. Bilalović recently interviewed Mathias Rohe, Director of FAU EZIRE, in the interview format "In Medias Res" on the national television channel of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Among other things, the conversation focusses on Rohe's fascination with Islam and Muslim life in Germany and Europe. The interview is freely available on YouTube.

Shisha bars, gangsta rap and martial arts. FAU EZIRE member Dr. Hatem Elliesie and his team are researching certain milieus and scenes that are thought to be associated with extended Arab families. It is important to him and his team to examine the respective scenes on the ground, regardless of clichés and stereotypes. Such exciting research topics are one of the characteristics of the FAU research landscape. Hatem Elliesie's work is supported by FAUNext, where researchers at FAU receive targeted support on their career path.

In an interview with Deutschlandfunk Kultur (in German), Dr Ertuğrul Şahin of the Heidelberg Center for Cultural Heritage and associate in the EZIRE collaborative project WECHSELWIRKUNGEN draws attention to the role of mosque archives as agents of cultural, Muslim heritage in Germany.

An interview with Hatem Elliesie by Deutsche Welle is the source for an article on Islamic law in sub-Saharan Africa. Following the cooperation conference of EZIRE with the African Law Association, which took place in Erlangen in November 2021, the topic was taken up and processed as relevant.

In an interview in the Leipzig University magazine, Hatem Elliesie talks about his research into Muslim communities in Germany and public debates about the phenomenon of so-called “parallel societies”.

On 10 June 2021, Group Leader Hatem Elliesie discussed his research on Islam in Germany with Prof. Dr. Dr. Udo di Fabio, a former judge of the Federal Constitutional Court and host of the podcast “Auf den Grund! – Wissenschaft im Gespräch mit Udo di Fabio”.

In an interview with Götz Nordbruch, co-director of ufuq.de, Mahmoud Jaraba spoke, among other things, about current trends within the Salafist scene in Bavaria and discussed ways of dealing with said scene. In general, the influence the Salafist scene has had on its followers had been quite powe...

What is Political Islam? How does he differ from traditionalist Muslims? What impact do those ideologies have on Muslim communities, how does coexistence of different views wordk and how can there be a greater understanding? Prof. Dr. Matthias Rohe in an interview for the magazine FAU-Alexander.

On the occasion of her master's thesis being awarded the Christoph Schumann Memorial Prize from the Faculty of Philosophy at FAU, the new EZIRE employee gave an interview about her research on Muslim life in rural areas in the context of immigration. Theresia Leis is one of several new members of th...