Johann Büssow

He has taught five years at Free University of Berlin, where he also obtained a PhD in Middle Eastern Studies in 2008.

Johann Büssow is section editor for the history of the Arab world from 1500 to the present of the Encyclopaedia of Islam Three (Brill, Leiden) and co-editor of the book series 'Studien zur Geschichte und Zeitgeschichte Westasiens und Nordafrikas' (LIT Verlag, Berlin u.a.).

With the historian Stefan Rohdewald (Gießen) he co-directs a research project on Palestine as a region of migration during the transition from late Ottoman to British Mandatory rule, in the framework of the research cluster "Transottomanica".

With Astrid Meier (Beirut), he is preparing a book-length study with the tentative title "Bedouin Syria: The Arid Lands of the Middle East, 1516–2011".

Together with several colleagues from Tübingen, he is conducting an interdisciplinary research project on the history of oasis towns in Oman.