Lale Behzadi

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Lale Behzadi (born around 1969 ) is a German-Iranian literary scholar and professor of Arabic studies .

family

Lale Behzadi is the daughter of DDR -Bürgerin Brigitte Stark and the Iranian member of the communist Tudeh Party , Manoutcher Behzadi, who had fled to East Germany during the reign of the Shah. After the Islamic Revolution in 1979, the family moved to Iran. When the persecution of left-wing opposition members increased there at the beginning of the 1980s, her mother returned to the GDR with the children. Behzadi's father remained in Iran, however, and was eventually arrested, tortured, and killed in prison.

Studies and academic career

Lale Behzadi studied Middle Eastern Studies and German at the University of Halle from 1987 to 1991 . Afterwards she studied Arabic studies, Islamic studies , German philology and Iranian studies at the University of Göttingen and at the University of Cairo until 1995 . In 1995 she completed her doctorate on experimental Egyptian short prose and then worked as a bookseller in Leipzig. From 1997 to 1998 she worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Semitic Studies and Islamic Studies at the University of Jena . She also held lectureships at the Universities of Halle and Leipzig . Then she was employed as a research assistant in Arabic studies at the University of Göttingen from 1999 to 2004, during which time she completed her habilitation on the philosophy of language at al-Jāḥiẓ . This was followed by a research stay in Lebanon. a. at the American University of Beirut . From 2008 to 2009 she worked as a senior assistant at the University of Göttingen. In 2009 she accepted a professorship for Arabic studies at the University of Bamberg .

Publications (selection)

  • “Do not neglect your talent!” The duty of education in Islam , in: Gottesgedanken, ed. by Reinhard Feldmeier and Monika Winet, Tübingen 2016, pp. 183–189
  • as editor together with Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila : Concepts of Authorship in Pre-Modern Arabic Texts (Bamberger Orientstudien 7), Bamberg 2015
  • ChickLit and literary scandal - the "Girls of Riyadh" as an intercultural misunderstanding , in: Bamberger Orientstudien Bd. 1, ed. by Lale Behzadi et al., Bamberg 2014, pp. 97-133.
  • Language and understanding: al-Ǧāḥiẓ on the perfection of expression , Wiesbaden 2009
  • Outlook and reflection: Goethe's Faust in Arabic literature , in: Orient and Occident: On the reception of Faust in non-Christian cultures, ed. by Jochen Golz and Adrian Hsia , Cologne / Weimar 2008, pp. 67–76.
  • as editor: learned poets, poetic scholars. Göttingen symposium on Arabic poetry in honor of Peter Bachmann, on the occasion of his 65th birthday, organized by his colleagues and students in February 2001 , Hildesheim 2003

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Contribution by Lale Behzadi and Brigitte Behzadi, geb. Strong: Opposition in the Mullah State - You will see, Iran is beautiful , published on September 6, 2008 on Spiegel Online .
  2. ↑ Lale Behzadi: Open letter to my father's executioners , published on September 5, 2008 in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit .
  3. ↑ This information comes from the website of the University of Bamberg, accessed on August 1, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Behzadi, Lale
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Iranian Islamic scholar and professor of Arabic studies
DATE OF BIRTH around 1969