Barbara Winckler

Barbara Winckler is a senior lecturer at the Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Münster, and the co-director of the bilingual summer school program “Arabische Philologien im Blickwechsel” (Arabic-English; arabic-philologies.de). She studied at the universities of Aix-en-Provence, Cologne, Damascus, and Berlin and worked as a lecturer and researcher at the Freie Universität Berlin and the Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin. Her research interests cover modern and contemporary Arabic literature and arts (particularly war and post-war discourses in Lebanon), Arabic periodicals and cultural history of the Nahdah period, and recent developments in Arabic studies as an academic discipline.