Vita

Since 2001	Reader and coordinator for Arabic Studies, Asia Orient Institute, University of Tübingen.
2004	Certified translator and interpreter, Translation, Language and Cultural Studies, University of Mainz at Germersheim
Since 1990	Collaboration in numerous archaeological excavations, among others in Greece and Syria
1990–1998	Study of Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Ancient Oriental Studies, Classical Achaeology, Freie Universität Berlin
1989–1990	Associate of the German Archaeological Institute Damascus
1989	M.A. in Visual Communication, University of Damascus