About
Associate Professor in Partnerships
Education: 1969 BA (hon.) Arabic and ME History, Lund University; 1971 MA (hon.) ME History, Lund University; 1974 PhD (unpublished thesis), Lund University.
Academic and administrative Position: 1985 – 2015 Senior lecturer at Lund University 2000 – 2015 Director of Studies; Chairman – Teaching Committe
2010 – 2014 Member of the Board at the Centre for Languages and Literature at Lund University; Member of the Board of the Language Centre at the University of Jordan; 2006 – 2016 Lecturer at Malmö University; 2016 – Associate Professor at Vilnius University.
Program Design and Evaluation: 2003 – 2004 Internal evaluator of our BA courses in Arabic Studies. My self- evaluation report was submitted to the Swedish Council for Higher Education in their process of evaluating Arabic Studies at Swedish universities. 2004 – 2005 I was entrusted by the Dean of the Faculties of Humanities and Theology to restructure our BA courses in Arabic and ME studies. Thus, the program in Arabic Studies (PAS) was launched in 2005. It offers a bachelor’s degree in Arabic and/or ME studies. 2021 Reviewer of PhD dissertation “The Interaction of Traditional Religious Therapy and Western Psychotherapy in Islam: A Comparative-anthropological Study” by Dovile Valaite.
Courses in Bachelor program: Arabic Literature in Translation, Arabic language.
Areas of Research: Arabic literature, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
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