Dr. Aline Schlaepfer

Biography

Aline Schlaepfer is an associate professor at the Arabic Unit of the University of Geneva since 2024. She holds a PhD in Letters from the University of Geneva (2012) and was a visiting doctoral student at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London (2009). Her postdoctoral mobility included positions at the American University of Beirut (2016) and Princeton University (2017). Prior to her current position, she was an assistant professor at the University of Basel focused on Middle Eastern studies, financed by a Swiss National Science Foundation Eccellenza Professorial Fellowship. Her ongoing project titled "Ottoman Afterlife: Jordan, Iraq. Politics of Remembering and Forgetting in New Arab States" (2020-2025) addresses issues of memory, heritage, and continuity with the Ottoman Empire in post-Ottoman Arab contexts including Turkey, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan. She is the author of "Les intellectuels juifs de Bagdad: Discours et allégeances (1908-1951)" published by Brill in 2016 and is currently working on a monograph titled "Ottoman Afterlives. Memory Writing History of Iraq and Empire." Her research includes intellectual, social, and political history of the Ottoman Empire in Arab spaces, Arab-Jewish relations, and minorities within Arab and Muslim contexts from the 19th to the 21st centuries, particularly in Iraq and Lebanon.

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