Thursday, April 14, 2016 

Nadia von Maltzahn is Research Associate at the Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB), a German academic research institute supporting historical and contemporary research on the Middle East.

She holds a DPhil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from St Antony’s College, University of Oxford.

Nadia’s current research project deals with cultural policies in Lebanon, looking in particular at cultural institutions and their role in the public sphere.

Her past and forthcoming publications include The Syria-Iran Axis: Cultural Diplomacy and International Relations in the Middle East (London: I.B. Tauris, 2013/2015), “’Ministry of Culture or No Ministry of Culture’? Lebanese cultural players and authority” [forthcoming]; Divercities: Competing Narratives and Urban Practices in Beirut, Cairo and Tehran (Orient-Institut Studies 3: 2015, ed. together with Monique Bellan) and Inverted Worlds: Cultural Motion in the Arab Region (Orient-Institut Studies 2: 2013, ed. together with Syrinx von Hees and Ines Weinrich).