Hazim Alabdullah is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Erfurt.  He received a BA in English Language and Literature (University of Aleppo) and MA degree in Literary Studies (University of Erfurt). Between 2015-2018, he worked as research assistant at Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (Max-Planck-Institut) within the DFG project “Typographia Medicea”. 2019, Hazim Alabdullah was a visiting doctoral fellow at the OIB.