Tilman Luedke
Senior Researcher at the Arnold-Bergstraesser Institute for Socio-Cultural Research at the University of Freiburg. He obtained his doctorate with a thesis on German and Ottoman Pan-Islamic Propaganda during World War I from the University of Oxford. He works on various topics concerning the Near and Middle East in the 19th and 20th century, particularly on the interaction of the region with Europe, the transition from empire to national states, phenomena as nationalism and political islam and ongoing social and ethnic conflicts.