Dr. Walid Abdelgawad

Affiliated Researcher
Working at the Dubnow Institute as a Research Associate in the »Ignaz Goldziher Program«from 2021 to 2023, and became than a Affiliated Researcher.
Studied Islamic Studies, Arabic Studies, and Oriental Philology at the universities Al-Azhar of Cairo and Leipzig, and completed his MA degree in 2006. Subject of the Master's thesis: »›Kifahi.‹ Untersuchung zur arabischen Übersetzung von Hitlers ›Mein Kampf‹«. Doctoral Candidate between 2012 and 2016 at the Dubnow Institute; subject of PhD thesis: »Islamische Wissenstraditionen angesichts der Moderne: Die Koraninterpretation Amīn al-Ḫūlīs (1895–1966)«. Between 2016 and 2018 Postdoc Fellowship at the W. Michael Blumenthal Akademie oft he Jewish Museum Berlin. Title of the Project : »›Wer eine Religion kennt, kennt keine.‹“ Reflexionen über Islam und Judentum in Schriften deutschsprachiger jüdischer Orientalisten (1833–1955).« Since 2007 License as an accredited and general sworn translator and interpreter for official applications.