Dr. Hala Abdel Meguid Lecturer for Arabic BA/MA Department Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies Postal Address Universität Bern Department Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies (SACS) Institute Middle East and Muslim Societies (MOMuG) Lerchenweg 36 3012 Bern Consultation Hour By appointment
Academic career 2023–present Lecturer in Modern Standard Arabic I & II, University of Lausanne (Switzerland) 2023–present Research Associate, Institute of the History and Anthropology of Religions (IHAR), University of Lausanne (Switzerland) 2022 Research Associate, Middle East and Mediterranean Research Center (CERMOM), INALCO, Paris (France) 2022 PhD in Classical Arabic Literature, INALCO, Paris (France). Dissertation: The Elaboration of a Human Ideal according to the Kitāb al-tawwābīn (The Book of Repentants) of Ibn Qudāma al-Maqdisī (d. 620/1223) 2021–2025 Lecturer in Arabic and Islamic Studies (BA & MA), University of Geneva (Switzerland) 2016–2019 Lecturer in Arabic Language and Methodology, INALCO, Paris (France) 2015 MA in Arabic and Islamic Civilization, University of Geneva (Switzerland) 2012 MA in Hebrew and Jewish Civilization, Aix-Marseille University (France) 2010 BA in Arabic Language and General History, University of Geneva (Switzerland)
Research interests Arabic Language Pedagogy Innovative and Student-Centred Teaching Methods Arabic Literature Religious Motifs and Narratives in Arabic Literature Sufism and Islamic Spirituality (8th-13th centuries) Mystical Qur’anic Exegesis Hagiography and Narratives of Repentance Hanbali Thought and Religious Piety The Thousand and One Nights: Language, Transmission and Literary Traditions Medieval Islamic Religious Literature Interreligious Dialogue and Religious Diversity Jewish–Islamic Intellectual Interactions
