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I. Chairman of Panels

II. Conference Organiser

III. Lectures, Public Discussions, Statements

IV. Academic Societies and Associations

I.    Chairman of Panels

Organization und Chairman des Panels: Balance of Powers in the Constitutional Framework of States with Islamic Character: Monarchal and Republican Concepts in Comparison, Third World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES3), Barcelona, 19.-24.07.2010

II.    Conference Organiser

Islamic law in theory and practice: Pakistan and England, (with Prof. Dr Irene Schnei-der), Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Historische Sternwarte, University of Göttingen, 10 November 2010

III.    Lectures, Public Discussions, Statements

Conference: Where is the Middle East heading?, topic: Religion and state, Berlin, 22–24/11/2019

Statement and discussion at the conference Dialogue in the Name of the Future – 2019, session: Political Mosaic of the Middle East: Russia's Strategy and Inside View, Mos-cow, 25/10/2019

Statement and discussion at the conference: Basics of the dialogues in Europe and the Arab World: Religion and its Critics, Berlin, 10–11/12/2018

At the international Conference: On the Way to Renewed Partnership, Zurich, topic: The Advancing Islamic State (Daesh) – End of “traditional” Statehood or Beginning of Failed State(?), 06–08/09/2015

Statement at the consulting conference of the European Abrahamic Forum (EAF), Zur-ich, topic: Somalia, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen … Moving from “the worst to the more worst” or the end of nation states and national statehood in the Middle East? 17–18/11/2014

Assessing Recent Developments in the Middle East international conference: Syria: An Interreligious Conflict Without Solution? Thinking on Possible, Real or Unthinkable So-lutions, Amman, 29–30 March 2014

Conference organised by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation: Islam and Democracy, top-ic: Islam within the democratic Rule of Law, Cologne, 11–14 July 2013

Panel discussion, topic: The holy scripture (Koran) and the constitution, zenithDebate at the Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance, 27 June 2013

Islamic gender discourse and legal thought conference, topic: Islamic references in the new Egyptian constitution and the Khul’-Law, Göttingen, 23 May 2013

Contre le racisme festival, Passau, topic: The concept of fundamental rights in the new constitution of Egypt: progression or stagnation?, 08–12 May 2013
       
Panel discussion organised by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation at the Representation of Saarland in Berlin, topic: The Syrian humanitarian disaster – Scenarios for develop-ment and end of the civil war, 25 February 2013

    Panel discussion, Museum of Ethnology, Dresden, topic: What’s next in Syria?, 24 January 2013
The consultation of the European Abrahamic Forum (EAF) and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, topic: Between turmoil, change, and renewal: Religion and its role in re-shaping societies in transition in the Arab Islamic World, Rabat, September 2012

At the Bucerius Law School – Law Faculty, Hamburg, topic: Egypt, Tunisia, Syria – New state design in the Arab world?, 3 May 2012

At the University of Göttingen, topic: Constitution and state in progression: Tunisia, Egypt and Syria in comparison, 26 April 2012

Panel discussion zenithDebate at the Middle East cultural week in Hamburg, topic: Reli-gious freedom? Fear of an Arab winter, 12 April 2012

At the University of the German Army, Munich, topic: Constitution and state in the Ar-ab world: between development and stagnation, 14 February 2012

Panel discussion organised by the democratic action of the student association on the Arab Spring, University of Göttingen, 2 February 2012

Conference organised by the Ministry of Justice in Bavaria: Church and law, topic: The role of religion in the Islamic state and the German Basic Law, German Judicial Acad-emy, Wustrau, 5–10 November 2011

Panel discussion and lecture by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation/Bildungswerk, topic: The Arab Spring: current situation in the Middle East, Hamburg, 27 October 2011

International conference: In the Aftermath of Changes: problems and future of Euro-Mediterranean relations, Amman, July 2011, topic: Problems and future of integration of Muslims in Europe: European-Muslim perspective

Preparatory session for the international conference of the European Abrahamic Forum (EAF), Zurich, May 2011
       
    Legal and fiscal general frameworks for business activities in the Middle East confer-ence, HypoVereinsbank, Munich, 30 June 2011, topic: General legal developments af-ter the Arab Spring

Workshop and panel discussion (law & integration): Islamic judge of peace (the Arbitra-tor): help or challenge to the rule of law?, Berlin House of Representatives, 30 March 2011

Guest lecture at the Orient Institute in Leipzig: Iraqi constitution and the endless reform process, Leipzig, 25 January 2011
    
Member of the Legal Cultures Dialogue (Germany & Iran), Second Summit, September 2010, Tehran, Qum and Isfahan. (First summit, Göttingen, December 2009; third sum-mit, Göttingen, September 2011; fourth summit, Tehran, November 2012, fifth summit, Hamburg, Göttingen, Berlin, September 2013)
       
Meeting for the organisation of the European Abrahamic Forum’s international confer-ence (EAF), Zurich, May 2010

Law Faculty, University of Göttingen, topic: The situation of constitutional law in the Arab League countries: theory, reality and development prospects, 2 February 2010

Conference: Transfer in Dispute: Controversial representations of cultural borrowings in Asia, the Arab world, and Europe, Berlin, November 2009, topic: Parliamentarianism in the New Iraqi Constitution: integration or disintegration through transfer?

We All are Minorities – a Plea for Pluralism, Amman, international conference, November 2009, topic: Pluralistic society and civil state (ad-daula al-madaniyya): From the perspective of Islamic law
       
Two statements at the conference for the organisation of the European Abrahamic Forum’s (EAF) international conference, Zurich, 6–7 April 2009:

1.    The concept of pluralism in the constitutions of Islamic states.
2.    The constitutional concept of Islamic freedom of religion and its influence on other religions in the Islamic states.

International workshop: Sports in Africa and Asia between identity politics, body cultures and secular ritual, November 2008, Center of the Modern Orient (ZMO), Berlin, topic: Sport as an integrative constitutional force in the Islamic world: The constitutions of Iraq, Afghanistan and Sudan in comparison

Statement at the international conference of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation: Islam and the Rule of Law between Sharia and Secularization, Berlin, 6 Sep 2007, topic: The in-fluence of religious clauses on constitutional law in countries with Islamic character
    
Presentation at the social democrat lawyers working group (ASJ) of the Social Demo-cratic Party of Germany, Berlin, 13 September 2006, topic: The new Iraqi constitution – a good basis for economic wealth and democracy?

IV.    Academic Societies and Associations

Lecture at the annual conference of the Research Group for Overseas Comparative Con-stitutional Law, Berlin, 5–7 July 2013, topic: Egypt: drafting of a constitution in case of a power struggle between judiciary and president

Lecture at the annual conference of the Research Group for Overseas Comparative Con-stitutional Law, Erfurt, 1–3 July 2011, topic: Constitutional development in Egypt after Mubarak

Member of the Salzburg Global Seminar, Session 475: Islamic Law and International Law: Searching for Common Ground, Salzburg, 14–19 November 2010
        
Lecture at the annual conference of the Research Group for Overseas Comparative Con-stitutional Law, Kassel, June 2009, topic: The limitation of pluralism in Islamic states: a constitutional consideration

Lecture at the annual conference of the Association for Arabic and Islamic law (with Prof. Dr Dr Peter Scholz), Cologne, December 2008, topic: The aspects of rule of law in the Iraqi and Iranian constitution: a crucial view

Lecture at the annual conference of the German Middle East Studies Association for Contemporary Research and Documentation (DAVO), Erfurt, 2–4 October 2008, topic: The United Arab Emirates from a constitutional viewpoint: cooperative federal system or a unitary federal state with double centralised levels

Lecture at the annual conference of the Research Group for Overseas Comparative Con-stitutional Law, Lübeck, 27–29 June 2008, topic: Reform of the Iraqi Constitution: Fields of Problems, Compromises, Stagnation?

Lecture at the 30th German Orientalist Congress (DOT), Freiburg, September 2007, topic: On the situation of constitutional law in countries of the Arab League: theory, re-ality and development prospects

Lecture at the annual conference of German Middle East Studies Association for Con-temporary Research and Documentation (DAVO), Hamburg, 30 Nov–2 December 2006, topic: The principle of the federal state in the Iraqi constitution and the law to formation of regions from 11/10/2006
        
Lecture at the Second World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES2), Amman, 11–16/06/2006, topic: The Federal System in the New Iraqi Constitution

Lecture at the annual conference of German Middle East Studies Association for Con-temporary Research and Documentation (DAVO), Hamburg, October 2005, topic: Con-stitutional criticism on the suggested construction of Iraqi federalism according to the provisional constitution from March 2004 to the permanent constitution of October 2005

Lecture at the annual conference of the Research Group for Overseas Comparative Con-stitutional Law, Mainz, June 2005, topic: The compatibility of the Iraqi election system with the principles of Iraqi federalism

Lecture at the annual conference of the Research Group for Overseas Comparative Con-stitutional Law, Göttingen, July 2004, topic: The federal aspects of the Iraqi provision-al constitution