Dr. Jaiser is a DAAD Lektor at the School of Applied Humanities and Languages โโat the German Jordanian University. He is an Assistant Professor as well as a Coordinator of the Master Program German as a Foreign Language โDaFโ.
Dr. Jaiser was born in 1966 in Stuttgart. He studied German Studies and Linguistics and did his PhD in 1998 at the University of Stuttgart about โCarl Maria von Weber als Writerโ. He worked at the Foreign Office at the University of Stuttgart from 2001 till 2003. He was a DAAD lektor in Jakarta, Indonesia (2003-2009) and in Hanoi, Vitenam (2010-2015) and since 2017 he has been a DAAD lektor in Amman, Jordan.
Klaus Wieland studied German, French and sociology in Munich, Paris, Berlin and Strasbourg. He graduated at the Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universitรคt in Munich with a Magister Artium and a PhD, followed by the Agrรฉgation and habilitation at the Universitรฉ Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3.
Since 2021, Klaus Wieland has been a DAAD lecturer at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the American University of Beirut, where he teaches German language and literature. Previously, he worked at various universities in Canada and France, most recently as Maรฎtre de confรฉrences at the Universitรฉ de Strasbourg (on leave since 2021). In the summer term 2021, he held the Marc Bloch Chair at the Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin.
His research focuses on 20th century German literature, gender / queer studies, and the cultural memory of Nazi fascism.
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Ms. Julia Albrecht
Julia Albrecht has been working as a DAAD lecturer at the Department of European Languages at the University of Jordan since September 2019. In 2013, she completed her bachelorยดs degree โGerman Language and Literatureโ as well as โEnglish Language and Literatureโ (B.A.) at the University of Oldenburg. Julia Albrecht then studied educational science majoring in German and English at the University of Hamburg and successfully completed her masterยดs degree in 2016 (M.Ed.). During and after her studies, she worked as a teacher and substitute teacher at a public high school in Hamburg. In 2017, Ms. Albrecht attended a three-month practical teaching training at the International German School in Cape Town, South Africa. From 2018-2019 she worked as a DAAD lecturer in Islamabad, Pakistan.
Dr. Susanne Karam is a DAAD Lecturer and coordinator for BA Translation for German, Arabic and English at the German Jordanian University (GJU) since September 2021.
She studied German as a foreign language and Arabic Studies at the University of Leipzig and did her PHD on โreading strategies for Arabic as a foreign languageโ.
She taught German and Arabic for non-natives in several institutions inside and outside Germany and has long term experiences as sworn in translator and interpreter. Between 2011 and 2016 she was DAAD Lecturer in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Aileen Schรผtz is working as a DAAD Language Assistant at the University of Jordan as of October 2022, afterย teaching English and Spanish forย one and a half years as a trainee teacher at a German high school near Mainz.
She obtained her Master's Degree in teaching English, Spanish and German as a foreign language in 2020, as well as a Bachelor's degree in cultural anthropology at the University of Mainz in 2018.
After several teaching experiences abroad in Tanzania and Peru, she participated in the SCHULWรRTS! program sponsored by Goethe-Institute in 2019, and assisted in German classes at an international school in Amman, Jordan.
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 Mastersโs 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 โ 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 Visiting Professor and DAAD-Consultant at the Doctoral School of Literature, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Lebanese University, Beirut. Trained in Middle Eastern Studies, English Literary and Cultural Studies, and Comparative Literature his decisively interdisciplinary work is located at the intersections of Transnational Middle Eastern Studies and Relational Diasporic Arab Studies. Among his research interests are Anglophone Arab Representations, Forced Migration and Border Regimes, Relational Diasporic Formations, Theories and Practices of Cross-Cultural Comparison, Cultural Resistance, and Decolonial Arts. Publications include Kulturkritik ohne Zentrum: Edward W. Said und die Kontrapunkte kritischer Dekolonisation (2008) and Transgressive Truths and Flattering Lies: The Poetics and Ethics of Anglophone Arab Representations (2020). His current project is a book-length study with the working title "Escape to Europe: Comparative Middle Eastern and North African Refugee Imaginaries."
Publications include cultural criticism without a center: Edward W. Said and the counterpoints of critical decolonization (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).
For Lebanese students:
Join us for our web seminar.
"Studying in Germany and DAAD Scholarships".
When? Monday 30.01.2022 at 12:00 am (11:00 am Lebanon time)
What do you need? A laptop or smartphone and an internet connection.
Link to the web seminar: https://bit.ly/3iTCXJW
Please note that the presentation will be in Arabic.
Forecast is an interdisciplinary mentoring program based in Berlin. We offer creative people from a wide variety of disciplines the opportunity to realize their projects alongside experienced mentors. This year they include poet and lyricist Gabeba Baderoon (South Africa), drummer Greg Fox (USA), visual artist Roee Rosen (Israel), fashion designer Irakli Rusadze (Georgia), photographer Mila Teshaieva (Ukraine) and performance Artist Yuya Tsukahara (Japan).
For the eighth edition of Forecast, we encourage artists and cultural workers from all over the world to apply with project ideas that can benefit from the expertise of one of our mentors. In addition to mentoring, successful applicants receive a scholarship and a production budget. The closing date for entries is Sunday February 26th at 23:59 CET.
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The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is one of the top German universities in Engineering and worldwide. It offers English-taught degree programs with focus on Automotive, Renewable Energy, Global Production Management, Digitalization, IOT, Production Innovation and Logistics and Financial Technology.
To know mor information register using the link below ๐
Date and time:
Monday, 6 February 2023 16:00 | (UTC+03:00) Amman
Register link:
https://daad-veranstaltung.webex.com/weblink/register/ra004aad058ac517b781967cc498bda3b
For Lebanese students:
Join us for our web seminar.
"Studying in Germany and DAAD Scholarships".
When? Monday 3๐ฌ.๐ฌ1.๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฎ ๐ฎ๐ 12:๐ฌ๐ฌ a๐บ (11:00 am Lebanon time)
What do you need? A laptop or smartphone and an internet connection.
Link to the web seminar: https://bit.ly/3iTCXJW
Please note that the presentation will be in Arabic
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