Hanna Schweitzer obtained both a bachelor’s degree in Arab and Islamic studies in 2020 and a bachelor’s degree in romance studies in 2021 from the University of Leipzig. She then went on to do a master’s degree in history and sociology of the Middle East in the University of Erfurt. She is currently writing her master’s thesis while working as a DAAD language and research assistant at the German Jordanian University in Madaba, Jordan.

Dr. Ortrun Hanna has been a DAAD Lecturer at the School of Applied Humanities and Social Sciences at the German Jordanian University (GJU) in Amman/Madaba since September 2024. She has many years of experience in teaching German as a foreign language and in the master’s training of GFL teachers and has managed corresponding institutions in Germany and abroad. In 1999 she received her doctor’s degree at the University of Dortmund in linguistics on the topic of university communication in mechanical engineering. She was a research assistant at the University of Dortmund, a GFL teacher at the preparatory college of the ÖSW in Bochum, DAAD Lecturer at the University of Helwan (Egypt), Director of the Language and Cultural Centre of the German University in Cairo (GUC), Head of the Department of German as a Foreign Language as well as the Language Centre at TU Braunschweig, Dean of the School of Languages at the German Jordanian University in Jordan and DAAD Lecturer at the German Department of the Faculty of Education and at the Centre of Excellence for Study and Research in German and Arabic as a Foreign Language (EZ-DAAF) at Ain Shams University in Cairo. Her areas of specialty include pragmatics, technical and scientific language as well as didactics and methodology of German as a foreign language.

Anna Kloska has been working since September 2019 as a DAAD Lecturer at the Department of German Language at the Salahaddin University in Erbil, Irak.

In 2021 she completed her Masters’s Degree (M.A.) in German Language and Literature.

Ms. Kloska then studied German as a Foreign Language for the purpose of teaching at the Ruhr-University of Bochum until 2003.

From 2003 till 2008 she was teaching German as a Foreign Language in Germany and since 2008 abroad, in Jordan and India.

From 2013 till 2015 Ms. Kloska was DAAD Lecturer in Algeria, Oran and between 2016 – 2019 at the University of Jordan in Amman, Jordan, supporting during that time the work at the German Department of the Salahaddin University Erbil, Irak.

Markus Schmitz is a comparativist trained in Middle Eastern Studies and English Literary and Cultural Studies. Before he joined German Jordanian University’s School of Applied Humanities and Social Sciences as Associate Professor and DAAD Long-term Lecturer he was Senior Lecturer at Münster University, Research Fellow at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna, and DAAD Visiting Professor and Academic Consultant at Lebanese University’s Doctoral School of Literature, Humanities, and Social Sciences in Beirut. His research revolves around (Anglophone) Arab Representations, Relational Diasporic Formations, Theories of Cross-Cultural Comparison, Forced Migration and Border Regimes. Publications include Kulturkritik ohne Zentrum: Edward W. Said und die Kontrapunkte kritischer Dekolonisation (2008), Postcolonial Translocations: Cultural Representation and Critical Spatial Thinking (Ed. 2013) and Transgressive Truths and Flattering Lies: The Poetics and Ethics of Anglophone Arab Representations (2020). His current research project is a comparative study on Middle Eastern refugee imaginaries.