Michael Lüders

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Michael Lüders (2017)

Michael Lüders (* 1959 in Bremen ) is a German political and Islamic scholar who works as a journalist and political and economic advisor.

Life

Michael Lüders studied Arabic literature for two semesters at the University of Damascus as well as journalism , Islamic and political science at the Free University of Berlin . With a thesis on Egyptian cinema he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD .

Lüders then worked as a documentary filmmaker and radio play author for SWR and WDR and was Middle East editor at ZEIT from 1993 to 2002 . From 2002 to 2003 he worked as a consultant for the SPD-affiliated Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES).

Since January 2004 Lüders has been a co-owner of the Middle East Consulting Group in Berlin, a freelance political and economic consultant as well as a publicist and author. According to his own statements, he holds lectures on “the tension between the West and the Arab-Islamic world” and “investment opportunities in the Arab world” and publishes “Expertise on the root cause of Islamist violence”. Among other things, he advises the Foreign Office (AA) and prepares expert reports for the German Society for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) and the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). In addition, he teaches at the Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the Philipps University in Marburg and was a guest lecturer at the Middle East Center of the Sakarya University in Turkey in 2015/16 . In 2017, the University of Trier appointed him a visiting professorship with a total of three individual lectures. Against this protested u. a. the local AStA and the Trier German-Israeli Society .

Lüders lives in Berlin.

Memberships and functions

Positions

Lüders blames the worsening conflicts in the Middle East on the USA: “... a policy of military intervention, as the USA has carried out since 2001, since the terrorist attacks of September 11th , be it in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, in Libya and Yemen, [has] only brought about state failure in all the countries mentioned ..., led to anarchy and chaos ... And the rise of terrorist movements like the Islamic State is causally due to this policy of intervention. "()

To solve the Syrian war and reduce the number of refugees , Lüders pleaded for cooperation with Bashar al-Assad as well as Russia and Iran . He told the Berliner Zeitung : “There is already a protection zone for refugees in Syria. In the coastal strip on the Mediterranean Sea, which Assad's army still controls, there are four million people who have fled IS. "

In an interview about his book Who sows the wind ... Lüders explained his thesis that “Western politics” only “supposedly” stands for democracy and justice.

Lüders does not rule out a Kurdish background to the terrorist attack in Istanbul on January 12, 2016 . Turkish government agencies assume that IS is the authorship .

Regarding the air strike on the asch-Schaʿirat military airfield , which the US government carried out in response to the poison gas attack, Lüders said the US was opening Pandora's box . There is a danger that the two nuclear powers, the USA and Russia, will soon find themselves in a serious confrontation in Syria. The thesis put forward by Lüders shortly afterwards on Anne Will's talk show was contradicted by the historian Michael Wolffsohn , who stated that the Russian side had been warned by the USA, but had not shot down the US cruise missiles even though they could have done so .

Publications and reception

We Starve After Death (2001)

Alexandra Senfft describes Lüder's second non-fiction book in the Süddeutsche Zeitung as a mixture of “analysis, basic information and experience report”. With his thesis on the clash of civilizations , the author accuses Samuel P. Huntington of being internally close to the Taliban . He sketched the western view of the Middle East conflict as "here peace-loving Israel, there the Palestinian terror" and points out that this is not shared by a third of the world's population. Lüders makes no secret of his criticism of the Middle East policy of the USA and Europe, so that she wonders whether this is why Die Zeit parted with him as Middle East editor.

Tea in the Garden of Timur (2003)

Senfft (this time for the Frankfurter Rundschau ) described Lüders' next book as a “political travel guide”, which offers the advantage of quick orientation, but has the disadvantage that the individual chapters of such a book, depending on the author's specialization, are necessarily stronger or turned out weaker. Central Asia seems a little foreign to Lüders in terms of language and culture. He presented the dovetailing between the conditions in the region and the geostrategic interests of the USA and put forward the thesis that the rest of the region could not be pacified without a solution to the Middle East conflict . She found it regrettable that Lüders did not use his own sources, but rather second-hand information. The reviewer found the analyzes of the complicated social structures in Iraq and Afghanistan all the more gripping.

Lutz C. Kleveman attested in the time Lüders' "political [m] parforce ride" through the Near and Middle East with regard to the part about the ex-Soviet republics of Central Asia a "cool, unexcited style", but criticized the lack of "clearer [r] Descriptions and experience reports that convey analytical content in a much more impressive way, especially from countries that are so unknown ”. The part about Iraq and Afghanistan that is based on “in-depth knowledge of the region” is stronger.

In the heart of Arabia (2004)

For Hartmut Wagner ( Eurasisches Magazin ), Lüders endeavored in his "pleasantly readable book" not to demonize the role of the USA in the Middle East. Lüders gives the reader a colorful insight into everyday Arab life beyond major world politics. The very personal book wins sympathy “especially through the honesty of the author”. Lüders sees his long-standing preoccupation with the foreign world of Arabia, which began as a child with the adventures of Kara Ben Nemsi from Karl May's oriental novels , as a process of self-exploration that is always accompanied by deep self-doubt. As a “controversial analyst” he also takes less popular standpoints: Lüders sees the causes of Islamism and the like. a. in the "unconditional support of the West for Israel" and blame its "unlawful, domination-oriented policies" for the strengthening of the terrorist organizations Hamas and Hezbollah .

Edith Kresta, on the other hand, pointed out in the ( taz ) that for Lüders, even without Israel, “the plight of the Arab world, its stagnation and lack of creativity, its repression and violence would be the same”. Lüders' book, according to the reviewer, is a “knowledgeable description of a politically and socially desolate world” that distracts from “one's own ineptitude” by blaming Israel. Only Lüders' blanket judgment “We are rich in material values, but poor in humanity. In the Orient it is exactly the other way round “does not match the otherwise differentiated presentation.

Amina's Restaurant (2006)

Lüders' third novel deals with the story of a  family who immigrated  to  Bremen from  Morocco and opened a restaurant in the Hanseatic city. In it, Lüders processed his newly gained experiences from the Orient by transferring them to his home in Bremen and linking the two together. The novel received  mostly positive reviews and praise from national and international  reviewers .

Days of Wrath (2011)

Lüders' work on the " Arabellion " was shortlisted for "The Best Science Book 2011" in Austria. In the NZZ, Beat Staufer attested to the author that he did an excellent job of describing everything necessary to understand the political and social conditions that had prevailed in the individual countries before the outbreak of the uprisings, on just a few pages. He is too critical of critics of Islam and sees Tunisia and Egypt as having the greatest potential for democracy and having an impact. He is pessimistic about Libya and Iraq.

Iran: The Wrong War (2012)

The work was on the SZ / NDR's list of “ Non-fiction books of the month June 2012”.

Franziska Augstein judged in the Süddeutsche Zeitung that Lüders described in his excellent book why the attitude is blind to carry out a preventive military strike against Iran without legitimacy under international law. He makes plausible why the Iranian government at the time, despite its irresponsible rhetoric, was trying to find a balance. Lüders stated that US policy was not interested in an understanding with Iran. The horror scenario of a regime change with armed force and the ensuing chaos like 2003 in Iraq underlined Lüders with a clever, careful depiction.

Wahied Wahdat-Hagh , on the other hand, found on the portal for political science that Lüders was an “ Ahmadinejad conqueror” with clear images of the enemy (“Israeli government, the Israel lobby or Washington's neoconservatives”) : Lüders attested to the then Iranian president that his Holocaust denial was only serve to convey to his "native clientele" his own intransigence. According to Lüders, the Iranian government does not dispute Israel's right to exist , although it has been speaking of “Greater Palestine” for decades and is calling for the end and destruction of Israel in various forms. Lüders belittles the violence and terror against Israel and therefore describes it as "very logical" that the Iranian government supports Hamas and Hezbollah . Lüders sees the blame for the Middle East conflict in principle with Israel, his prejudices are deeply anchored and he is not ready to recognize the causes of a potential war.

The journalist Gemma Pörzgen on Deutschlandfunk criticized the “seeming inevitability of the development described by [Lüders]”, but praised his “expertise” and saw the “absolutely worth reading” book as a “pleasant effort to objectivity”.

Matthias Küntzel described Lüder's portrayal of Iran as a “fairytale book” that sided with the Iranian side and that did not stand up to a source check. He was wrong, for example, based on the Guldimann Memorandum and invented processes that did not exist. He suspects an Israeli conspiracy in a well-known spiritual tradition behind US policy. Küntzel also accuses Lüders that his alleged economic interests in the region in connection with his work as a “ Middle East business lobbyist ” were neither mentioned by his publisher nor during his regular appearances on public broadcasting .

The political scientist Stephan Grigat reviewed the book in Jungle World as a “perfidious” trivialization of Khomeinism , which one-sidedly withholds facts and misrepresents, ignores the standard literature in the sense of its presentation and instead relies on anti-Zionist authors such as Ilan Pappe . Lüders does not analyze the hatred of Israel as one of the central elements of the Khomeinist ideology, but belittles it for "instrumental demonization" and withholds all efforts of Israel to find a peaceful solution. The allegations that the pro-Israel American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) stand “for a Greater Israel ”, stand for the “fundamental rejection of a Palestinian state” or that the early days of Israel were shaped by revisionism are contrary to the truth .

Sylke Tempel found that the presentation was based on "a lot of imagination and little serious research", not just sloppily researched, but pure propaganda. “This is how the Lüders principle works. Everything is twisted in such a way that it fits into his worldview of the evil Israeli and American warmongers and poor, purely defensive Iran. ”Tempel described it as incomprehensible how Lüders could acquire the reputation of an expert in view of his literature selection.

Who sows the wind (2015)

In April 2017 this was of Lueders for over 100 weeks in the bestseller list of book report .

Christian Patz criticized a “cynical undertone” throughout the book on the political science portal , which at times became “absurd”: Lüders, for example, relied on the statement that the American cruise missile attack on Al-Qaeda training camps was a reaction the 1998 bombings on the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania to distract attention from the Lewinsky affair . “Beyond the detailed indictment” of western politics, Lüders neglects the causal dynamics and responsibility of the regimes in the region for their condition.

The ARD culture magazine ttt - titel, thesen, temperamente , on the other hand , praised the book as a knowledgeable, pointed and gripping book, one that was missing. In her review, Christine Romann particularly points out the repetitive political patterns that Lüders sought to uncover in the past. The disaster of fanatical Islam, the Islamic revolution in Iran, the terror, the brutal violence of IS would not be in the world without the intervention of the West within the last 60 years. According to Lüders, this was always based on business interests, geopolitics and power politics, especially the USA.

In the Islamische Zeitung , Andreas Abu Bakr Rieger judged that, as an “incorruptible chronicler”, Lüders cleverly summarized the decades-long machinations of the West in the region, but notes that while Lüders criticized Israel's policy with good reason, he was a little bit of the Escape from the suicidal strategy of the Hamas ideologues.

Armin Pfahl-Traughber at the Humanist Press Service certified that the book was named "a wealth of historical and political facts that illustrate the ambivalence and double standards of Western politics in the region there," Lüders asked important questions such as: "Is there a single military intervention by the West, which would not have resulted in chaos, dictatorship, new violence? ”However, Pfahl-Traughber criticized the“ excitement and one-sidedness, but also moralism and superficiality ”of the presentation. The question of why the USA or the West acted in this way would not be explained in more detail by Lüders, and the good-evil scheme for assessing the actors can also be found in himself.

Never Say Anything (2016)

The novel, the title of which alludes to the NSA ( N ever S ay A nything ), is about the experiences of a journalist who survived a military attack in Morocco and discovered the traces of American elite soldiers during her research. As a result of her research, she is increasingly putting herself in danger.

According to the presentation by Radio Bremen , specialist knowledge and storytelling flow together in this novel to create an “explosive, highly exciting political thriller”. Annemarie Stoltenberg ( NDR ) thinks the fiction of the novel seems so real “that its readers take their breath away.” Berit Niebel writes in the Marler Zeitung: This thriller is disturbing and it confuses our perception of our “friends” across the Atlantic .

Harvesting the Storm (2017)

In 2017, Lüder's publication was on Spiegel's bestseller list for several weeks , it reached number 1 in issue 14 of 2017 (paperback non-fiction books) on Buchreport .

Winfried Dolderer reviewed the book for Deutschlandfunk : Lüders' “Debattenbeitrag” was interesting and worth reading, but also controversial. The reader will agree in many respects with the analysis, which is based on leaked US embassy cables and Hillary Clinton's memos , among other things , but “that it was only the West that plunged Syria into chaos, as the subtitle put it, remains highlighted a statement. "one very positive factor Lueders' historical overview, which is on a wide source basis the history of Western attacks on the political system in Syria that already in March 1949 with a CIA-organized military coup against the elected president Shukri al-Kuwatli started have.

For the Kulturjournal des Bayerischen Rundfunks , Lüders “is not about playing down the warfare of Assad or his Russian allies”; conversely, in the West, his large “part in internationalization and thus also the escalation of the conflict is not a prominent topic in the media and political Description of the war ”. It had already been shown in Iraq “that a regime change supported by the outside has led to the collapse of the state and thus to the rise of radical jihadism ”. The failed policy of intervention in the name of its own geostrategic interests can no longer restrain the spirits it has called. Michael Lüders explains the background to this fateful connection in his book.

The team of the evening news - Anti-Fake News -Portals "fact-finder" under the direction of Patrick Gensing conducted research on the propagated by Lueders in the book's thesis that, unlike claims by the West, Turkey 2013 poison gas was delivered to radical Islamic rebels in Syria and they were responsible for the poison gas attacks in Ghouta . With his false flag allegation, Lüders relies on articles by journalist Seymour Hersh . However, Hersh's theses were heavily questioned. In 2014 Eliot Higgins had already explicitly contradicted this in the Guardian Hersh, referring to the types of ammunition used and excluded Turkey from being involved. The “fact finder” team came to the conclusion that the serious allegations made by Lüders are based on very thin or contradicting sources and the central question “ Cui bono? “Followed. Evidence that does not match Lüders' version (e.g. reports by Human Rights Watch and the UN Human Rights Council that indicated that Syrian government troops were responsible for the gas attacks) were mostly not mentioned. Lüders gets a lot of applause for his claims, but on closer examination they do not seem particularly substantial. According to Daniel Steinvorth's assessment in the NZZ in September 2019, Lüders also stiffened completely on the USA as the polluter and ignored the then hesitant foreign policy of US President Barack Obama.

Armageddon in the Orient (2018)

Lüders considers a factual analysis of the contrast between in the Middle East "especially in times of fake news" to be necessary in order to refute the "enemy image prose"; He sees his goal in making the actual factors of politics clear: maintaining power and asserting interests. Lüders traces the origins of the conflict and analyzes the current situation in Iran in a geopolitical parallelogram. He warns of the incalculable consequences of a war in the region.

In his review in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, René Wildangel Lüders admits to correctly assessing the explosiveness of the conflict and the factors of power politics. However, he accuses the author of falling into the same black and white painting, which he constantly criticizes. When portraying the war in Syria, he ultimately follows the "Syrian-Russian narrative". Lüders does not really succeed in providing alternatives to the reports in the mainstream media that he criticizes, since his work is based only on newspaper articles and not on his own research. Lüders also provides much that is correct and illuminating about the Iranian-Saudi conflict, but little that is new. The military and strategic aspects and the elaboration of specific political alternatives were missing.

Social media and television appearances

In Markus Lanz's ZDF talk show on April 5, 2017, one day after the poison gas attack by Chan Shaykhun , Lüders claimed, citing Can Dündar , that Turkey delivered poison gas to the Syrian rebels in 2013. According to the FAS , shortly afterwards Dündar contradicted Lüders' account that Dündar had described it as “total nonsense” and that Cumhuriyet , of which he was editor-in-chief at the time, had only reported on Turkish arms deliveries to the rebels. Dündar later corrected his testimony, claiming that such reports were published by Cumhuriyet, but that they did not come from his pen. The West, however, blamed the Syrian government for the 2017 attack, while Russia and the latter claimed that a poison gas depot of the Syrian opposition had been hit. In September 2017, a United Nations special commission concluded that the Syrian government was responsible for the attack. Lüders presented his point of view in detail on April 21, 2017, this presentation was commented on by Stefan Winterbauer on April 24, 2017, saying that "some things about Lüders and his positions were presented in a clearly incorrect or distorted way. As is so often the case, there is probably no concerted campaign behind it , but an unpleasant mixture of misunderstandings and herd instinct. The results of such collective sloppiness are not unlike those of a campaign from the outside. "

Brigitte Baetz said on Deutschlandradio on the occasion of a Lüders appearance with Anne Will on April 10, 2017 that he was celebrated in the social media in particular by those who reject the so-called " system media " and believe that the West is against Putin and Assad have conspired . By contrast, Lüders is viewed critically among other Middle East experts. Baetz was referring to Sylke Tempel , editor-in-chief of the magazine Internationale Politik , who had accused Lüders in 2012 of cultivating the worldview of the "evil Israeli and American war-mongers", and Thorsten Gerald Schneiders , editor at Deutschlandfunk and an Islamic scholar who spoke to Lüders with the " UFO expert Erich von Däniken " compared. Anne Will had said in her talk show that Lüders was “deliberately not presented as a neutral Middle East expert, but as an author and as a political and economic advisor” and a “businessman who sells his knowledge to companies in the Middle East East want to do their business ". Her question to him as to whether his "economic interests [played a role] if [he claims] that it was the West that had thrown Syria into chaos" went unanswered. He replied that he would “very much like to analyze on the factual level”. Baetz complained about Will's introduction that she had not shown her paid advisory functions to other guests at the same panel discussion. Lüders later stated that he felt deliberately discredited and doubted that Will even wanted to have an objective dialogue.

Awards

Works (selection)

In addition to non-fiction books, Lüders wrote radio plays and produced documentaries about Afghanistan and Egypt . His novels and stories take place in the Near or Middle East .

literature

  • Internationales Biographisches Archiv 23/2009 from June 2, 2009 (rw) Supplemented by news from MA-Journal up to week 18/2012 in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Broadcast reports

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Munzinger
  2. ^ Curriculum vitae , michael-lueders.de, accessed on December 29, 2015.
  3. ^ Rolf Seydewitz: Again protests against visiting professor at the University of Trier , Trierischer Volksfreund from June 10, 2016
  4. ^ DAG board of directors
  5. ↑ NuMOV Advisory Board
  6. ↑ Peter Kapern: Advance by US diplomats: "Switch off Syria as an ally of Russia and Iran". Deutschlandfunk , June 17, 2016, accessed on July 19, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Thomas Kröter: Proposal for the deployment of the Federal Armed Forces in Syria: Von der Leyen against the deployment of German troops in Syria. In: ksta.de. September 16, 2015, accessed December 6, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Interview by Georgios Chatzoudis | 17th November 2015
  9. ↑ “The Middle East expert Michael Lüders has doubts that the suicide attack in Istanbul was actually carried out by an IS fighter. It is far more plausible to assume a Kurdish background. In view of the merciless struggle against the Kurdish civilian population, an act of revenge is obvious, he said in the DLF. "
  10. ^ Lüders: Trump opens Pandora's box , NDR, April 7, 2017
  11. ↑ Gerd Appenzeller : In Syria there is not just one truth, Der Tagesspiegel from April 10, 2017
  12. ↑ bücher.de IT and Production: 'We hunger after death'. Andrea Senfft: Fear of the future. Michael Lüders examines Islamist violence. Süddeutsche Zeitung - Review, June 20, 2002. Retrieved April 16, 2017 .
  13. ^ Frankfurter Rundschau: Along the pipeline . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . ( fr.de [accessed on April 16, 2017]).
  14. ↑ Lutz C. Kleveman: Near and Middle East: Peace? Democracy? Nothing . In: The time . September 4, 2003, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed April 16, 2017]).
  15. ↑ EURASIAN MAGAZINE, Germany: "In the heart of Arabia" by Michael Lüders . ( eurasischesmagazin.de [accessed on April 16, 2017]).
  16. ↑ Edith Kresta: The Arab World: Reforms and Love . In: the daily newspaper . ( taz.de [accessed on April 16, 2017]).
  17. ^ Beat Staufer: Minutes of a turning point. NZZ on Sunday, September 25, 2011
  18. ↑ Review note on  Iran. The false war  by Franziska Augstein in the SZ, April 30, 2012 ( online )
  19. ↑ Review note on Iran. The false war by Franziska Augstein in the SZ, April 30, 2012 ( online )
  20. ↑ Wahied Wahdat-Hagh , review of: Michael Lüders: Iran: The false war. Munich: 2012 , in: Portal for Political Science , published on September 13, 2012.
  21. ↑ Gemma Pörzgen: Warning of a military strike against Tehran. In: deutschlandfunk.de. May 7, 2012, accessed August 10, 2015 .
  22. ↑ a b Michael Lüders and "The Rich New York Jews" , publikative.org, July 4, 2012.
  23. ^ Stephan Grigat: The Günter Grass of political science. In: Jungle World . June 7, 2012, accessed August 10, 2015 .
  24. ↑ Sylke Tempel: Warmongers everywhere . In: Tagesspiegel . August 13, 2013 ( online ).
  25. ↑ Who sows the wind - book report. Retrieved May 2, 2017 .
  26. ↑ Christian Patz, review of: Michael Lüders: Who sows the wind. Munich: 2015 , in: Portal für Politikwissenschaft , published on October 15, 2015
  27. ↑ "Who sows the wind" - ttt - title, theses, temperaments - ARD | The first. July 21, 2015, accessed April 11, 2017 .
  28. ↑ Abu Bakr Rieger discusses Michael Lüders' new title . In: Islamic Newspaper . ( islamische-zeitung.de [accessed on April 11, 2017]).
  29. ^ Armin Pfahl-Traughber: The Politics of the West in the Near and Middle East , Humanistic Press Service of March 30, 2015
  30. ^ A b NDR: Michael Lüders: "Never Say Anything". Retrieved May 4, 2017 .
  31. ^ Michael Lüders - Literature on site. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 11, 2017 ; accessed on May 4, 2017 .
  32. ↑ Who is friend, who is enemy ?, Review, Medienhaus Bauer, Marl May 20, 2020, Marler Zeitung & five other regional editions; Literature page
  33. ↑ Those who reap the storm - book report. Retrieved on May 2, 2017 (as of May 2017).
  34. ↑ Syrian War - The Mistakes of the West . In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed on April 7, 2017]).
  35. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk: "Those who reap the storm": Michael Lüders on Syria and the West | BR.de . March 7, 2017 ( br.de [accessed on August 23, 2018]).
  36. ↑ Michael Lüders: Who reap the storm: How the West plunged Syria into chaos . 2nd Edition. CH Beck, 2017, ISBN 978-3-406-70780-3 , pp. 176 .
  37. ^ Seymour M. Hersh: The Red Line and the Rat Line . In: London Review of Books . April 14, 2014, p. 21-24 ( lrb.co.uk ).
  38. ^ Eliot Higgins : It's clear that Turkey was not involved in the chemical attack on Syria , The Guardian, April 22, 2014
  39. ↑ Patrick Gensing u. a .: "Poison gas attacks under false flags?" , Fact Finder from April 10, 2017
  40. ↑ Daniel Steinvorth: "And now the whole truth about Syria" NZZ from September 6, 2019
  41. ↑ Michael Lüders: Armageddon in the Orient. How the Saudi Connection is targeting Iran, p. 10f.
  42. ↑ René Wildangel: Beyond the certainties. In: sueddeutsche.de. Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 9, 2018, accessed on January 7, 2020 .
  43. ↑ Do what: Michael Lüders at M. Lanz: Syrien, Poison Gas, Turkey. April 6, 2017. Retrieved July 4, 2019 .
  44. ↑ Is Michael Lüders convicted of being a "fake news distributor"? | Over media . In: Übermedien . April 20, 2017 ( uebermedien.de [accessed May 13, 2017]).
  45. ↑ The Circumstances, the Conspiracy Theories, the Facts , SPON of April 12, 2017
  46. ↑ Syria: UN blames Bashar al-Assad for poison gas attack. In: DW - Deutsche Welle . September 6, 2017, accessed January 1, 2018 .
  47. ↑ Welcome to the German-Arab Society. Retrieved July 4, 2019 .
  48. ↑ Stefan Winterbauer: “Overall defamed” - the controversial Middle East expert Michael Lüders defends himself against media allegations. In: Meedia . April 24, 2017. Retrieved July 4, 2019 .
  49. ↑ Brigitte Baetz: Michael Lüders after talk show statements in the review , Deutschlandfunk from April 12, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Lüders, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political and Islamic scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen