Bianka Speidl
burgonski@onet.eu
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6140-594X
Affiliation:
Pázmány Péter Catholic University
Hungary
Bio Statement (e.g., department and rank)
Bianka Speidl earned her PhD at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, UK. Her special field of interest is Shiite Islamist discourse and the various trends of Islamism in Europe. She spent several years studying in Tunisia, Syria, and Lebanon. She is involved in anthropological as well as philological research on Muslim cimmunities in Europe and Christian communities in Syria. She is a senior analyst at the Budapest based Migration Research Institute and a lecturer of Arab and Islamic studies at the Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Hungary.