Dr. Sasha Dehghani

We are delighted to welcome Dr Sasha Dehghani as a Mercator Fellow to the RTG2840 ‘Ambivalent Enmity’ postgraduate research and training program for the winter semester of 2025/26, from October to November. Dr Dehghani holds a Master's degree in Islamic Studies, Political Science, and Protestant Theology/Religious Studies from FSU Jena, as well as a PhD in Arabic Studies from the Free University of Berlin. Dr. Dehghani has taught and/or conducted research at the American University of Beirut, the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research in Berlin and the Centre for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. Since 2012 He has been a project manager at the Centre for the Study of the Sacred Texts at the Baha‘i World Centre in Haifa, and was appointed as a Forum Humanum Visiting Professor at the Academy of World Religions at the University of Hamburg (in 2020/2021) and as a Visiting Research Professor at the Baha'i Chair for World Peace at the University of Maryland (since 2022). His current focus is on prevalent academic theories at the interface of Religion, Philosophy and Civilization since the end of the second world war – such as Samuel Huntingtons Clash, Edward Saids Orientalism or Karl Jaspers Axial Age, to name only a few – examining to what extent their works have had a peaceful-unifying or divisive-disintegrational effect on the academic world and beyond.