Maria-Louise Clausen successfully defended her PhD dissertation, based on a Yemeni case study, at the Department of Political Science in September.

Professor Hinnebusch will spend March to May 2016 in Aarhus as part of Morten Valbjørn’s project on "Sectarianism in the Wake of the Arab Revolts."

Sara Jul Jacobsen, a PhD fellow at Roskilde University, is now a guest researcher in Aarhus.

Martin Riexinger has been elected to the Board of the Forum for Islamforskning, the Danish association for research on Islam.

Morten Valbjørn has received a major grant for a group research project, SWAR - Sectarianism in the Wake of the Arab Revolts – beyond primordialist…

Elvire Corboz has published "Guardians of Shi'ism: Sacred Authority and Transnational Family Networks" with Edinburgh University Press.

From 01.01.15, he is the new director of the Danish Egyptian Dialog Institute (DEDI).

Thomas Würtz will be joining the Arab and Islamic Studies program for the first half of 2015.

In late October 2014, a major conference on "Multi-Sited Sufism: Transmissions, Translations, Transcendence" was held in Istanbul.

New Routledge collection with contributions from six members of the ICSRU, Making European Muslims: Religious Socialization Among Young Muslims in…