Occupation
Independent Scholar/Researcher
Contact
ABOUT
Dr. Nils E. Lukacs is a historian on the contemporary Middle East. He is an Associate at German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) and teaches on the history and politics of the Middle East at the University of Hamburg. He takes a global approach to the history of the region and has worked extensively on the US-Middle Eastern relationship. He is author of Obama's Beginning in the Middle East (Ergon, 2023). From 2020 to 2022 he was a Scientific Advisor at the Iraq Chamber of the Hamburg Administrative Court, and currently works on the Idea of Iraq among the Iraqi diaspora.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Arab Studies
Historiography
Globalization
World History
Geographic Areas of Interest
Maghreb
Mashreq
Iran
Egypt
Tunisia
Israel
Palestine
Specialties
Modern And Contemporary History Of The Middle East
History Of Islam
U.S. Foreign Policy In The Middle East
Languages
German (native)
French (advanced)
English (fluent)
Spanish (advanced)
Arabic (intermediate)
Education
PhD
| 2022
| History
| University of Hamburg
MA
| 2014
| History
| Heidelberg University
BA
| 2012
| History
| Konstanz University
Abstracts
Obama’s Road to Cairo: The President’s Rhetorical Journey, 2008–2009
The Idea of Iraq - Twenty Years of Iraqi History since the Fall of Saddam Hussein through the Lens of the Iraq Chamber of the Hamburg Administrative Court
