Aziz al-Azmeh

Aziz Al-Azmeh (Arabic: عزيز العظمة; born July 24, 1947) is a Syrian academic and professor at the Department of History, Central European University, Vienna, Austria.

In May 1993, he received the Republican Order of Merit, for services to Arab culture, from former President of Tunisia, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

[citation needed] In addition, Al-Azmeh has been invited to various international conferences, talks, seminars, lectures and symposia.

[4] A new version was released on August 7, 2009, also examining "the discourse surrounding Islamism and irrationalism after 9/11."

In 2010, he was then a visiting research fellow at the university in the School of History and Interdisciplinary Historical Studies.