FEATURED AUTHOR
Olof Heilo
Tracing my interest in Eastern European and Middle Eastern history back to the Classical and Islamic worlds, my dissertation came to focus upon the convergence of the two latter in the Middle Byzantine and Early Islamic period. I am working with history both as a field of studies in itself and as a narrative instrument in the formation of modern and pre-modern identities.
Subjects: History, Middle East Studies
Biography
Born in 1982. Studies in Ancient Greek and Arabic at the University of Lund and Farsi at the University of Copenhagen 2001-2005. Frequent travels in the Eastern Mediterranean area; recurring seminar participant, collegium member and scholarship holder at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul since 2004. PhD from the University of Vienna in 2010, teacher at the CMES in Lund and researcher based in Vienna from 2012.Education
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M. A., Lund University 2005
PhD, University of Vienna, 2010
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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Byzantine Empire
Ottoman Empire
Habsburg Empire
Islam and Modernity
Europe and the Middle East
Historical Philosophy
Personal Interests
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Music
Literature
Architecture