B.A. in Cultural Studies with a Focus on Religion (Major) and Intercultural German Studies (Minor) at the University of Bayreuth. M.A. in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (Major) and Science of Religion (Minor) at the University of Bern. Since November 2011 PhD student and research assistant at the Institute of Islamic Studies and Recent Oriental Philology, University of Bern, founded by the Swiss National Foundation.

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