Keynote at the International Congress of DAVO: From the Arab spring to ISIS
Keynote at the 25th International Congress of DAVO “Politics, Reiligion and Society in the Middle East” by Prof. Dr. Gilles Kepel (Institut d’études politiques de Paris), 4 October 2018
Welcome Adresses by:
Prof. Dr. Susanne Schröter (Director of the Frankfurt Research Center on Global Islam (FFGI))
Staatsminister Boris Rhein (The Hessen State Ministry for Higher Education, Research and the Arts)
Prof. Dr. Rolf van Dick (Vice-President of the Frankfurt University)
Prof. Dr. Rainer Forst (Director of the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”)
Prof. Dr. Günter Meyer (Chairman of DAVO)
Presented by:
Cooperation of the Frankfurt Research Center on Global Islam (FFGI) at the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders” with the the German Middle East Studies Association for Contemporary Research and Documentation (DAVO) under the patronage of the Hessen State Ministry for Higher Education, Research and the Arts
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