Meet the Author with Sebastian Elsässer

In this webinar, Sebastian Elsässer will discuss his recent article, “Arab Non-Believers and Freethinkers on YouTube: Re-Negotiating Intellectual and Social Boundaries,” Religions 12, no. 2 (2021).

12pm ET

Sebastian Elsässer has been assistant professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel since 2011. He received his M.A. degree in Islamic Studies, Political Science and Political Economy from Freie Universität Berlin in 2005 and his Ph.D. degree from Freie Universität Berlin in 2012. He was a guest doctoral researcher at the CEDEJ, a French research center for the social sciences, in Cairo between 2008 and 2011. His research interests include the cultural and ideological history of Islamism, Muslim and Christian family law, the contemporary role of religious institutions and authorities, and religious change in the Arab world.