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Dr. Leslie Tramontini serves as Managing Director of the Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS) at Philipps University of Marburg since 2007, holding dual doctorates with an honorary doctorate from the Arab League. Her academic trajectory spans decades of research across Lebanon, Iraq, UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Iran, with formal education at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and Baghdad University.
Her research focuses critically examine war and memory in modern Arabic literature, nation-building discourses in intellectual circles, digital transformations of religious authority, and interconfessional conflicts in Muslim-majority societies. Methodologically bridging literary analysis with sociopolitical critique, she investigates how poetry functions as resistance during authoritarian regimes and war.
Her scholarly output reveals consistent engagement with Iraqi literary traditions, particularly the works of Badr Shākir as-Sayyāb and Muzaffar al-Nawwāb, while expanding into contemporary digital religious debates and migration studies. The 15 most recent publications demonstrate evolving focus from literary analysis to applied research on migration integration and cyber-religion.
- Honorary Doctorate from Arab League (2009)
- Award from Arab Historians Union (2009)
- DAAD Dissertation Scholarship (1988)
- NRW Graduate Scholarship (1987-1989)
- Kuwait University Scholarship (1982-1983)
As science manager, she secured substantial third-party funding including DFG projects for open-access journal development and DAAD partnerships for gender competence training. She co-founded the Welcome - CNMS meets refugees initiative (2015-2023) and directed the International Summer University Marburg. Her leadership extends to the Zentrum Interdisziplinäre Religionsforschung and Augusta Bender Literaturmuseums.
Tramontini maintains active translation practice of contemporary Arabic literature while serving on editorial boards for Lisan and Beiruter Blätter. Her public engagement includes frequent media commentary on Middle Eastern affairs for Deutsche Welle and 3sat.
