independent scholar
Ph.D. candidate My thesis on the history of Middle East Studies at German universities (19th and first half of the 20th centuries) was submitted in August 2005 and is currently under evaluation
"A Mythology of Representation, Power and Truth: Timothy Mitchell’s Colonising Egypt," Asian and African Studies 23 (1989): 271-288. "Ibn Khaldun: Geschichte schreiben – Geschichte machen," Der Islam 76 (1999): 77-108. "Theodor Noeldeke, 1836-1930," Jama'a 7 (2001): 150-159 [Hebrew]. "Concepts of Middle Eastern Modernity -- Historiographical Aspects," Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte, "Ethnizität, Moderne und Enttraditionalisierung xxx (2002): 248-274. (together with Israel Gershoni) "Doing History: Modern Middle Eastern Studies Today," in Histories of the Modern Middle East (2002), pp. 1-18. (together with Israel Gershoni) "Conclusion: The Return of the Concrete ?" in Histories of the Modern Middle East (2002), pp. 279-286. "The Expropriation of the Pasha's Peasants," in Mamluks and Ottomans. Studies in honor of Michael Winter, ed. by Ami Ayalon and David J. Wasserstein (Routledge, 2005), pp.
(edited together with Israel Gershoni and Hakan Erdem) Histories of the Modern Middle East: New Directions, ed. (Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner Publishers, 2002)