Affiliated Researcher
Stefan Maneval teaches Islamic Studies, as well as Migration and Diversity Studies at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. Holding a PhD from Freie Universität Berlin, he is the author of New Islamic Urbanism: The Architecture of Public and Private Space in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (2019), the editor of Faith Travels by Streetcar: Norms and Objects in Religious and Secular Contexts (2021) and co-editor of Forms of Migration: Global Perspectives on Im/migrant Art and Literature (with Jennifer A. Reimer, 2022). He is a winner of the dissertation award from the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO), and a member of the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA). In 2017/18, he was a postdoctoral fellow of the Orient-Institut Beirut.
2017
(forthcoming, with Heike Delitz, peer reviewed) “The ‘Hidden Kings’, or Hegemonic Imaginaries: Analytical Perspective of Post-foundational Sociological Thought”. Im@go: Journal of the Social Imaginary.
"Wahhabismus: Was würde Muhammad tun?" In Sunniten und Schiiten, edited by Candid Foundation, pp. 28–29. Bonn: Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung. Also published in Zenith: Zeitschrift für den Orient 1/2017.
2016
Muslim Matter: Photographs, Objects, Essays, edited by Stefan Maneval and Omar Kasmani. Berlin: Revolver Publishing.
“Lost and Found: A Matter of Orientation”. In Muslim Matter, edited by S. Maneval and O. Kasmani, pp. 111–19. Berlin: Revolver Publishing.
“Fundsachen: Eine Frage der Orientierung”. In Muslim Matter, edited by S. Maneval and O. Kasmani, pp. 125–32. Berlin: Revolver Publishing.
2014
(peer reviewed) "Niemand hat die Absicht, einen Aufsatz zu zensieren. Archäologie, Politik und Zensur im Zusammenhang mit der Ausstellung 'Roads of Arabia. Archäologische Schätze aus Saudi-Arabien’". Forum Kritische Archäologie 3: 1–10.
2012
"Abdullah, wir müssen reden: Die saudische Künstlergruppe 'Edge of Arabia’". Zenith: Zeitschrift für den Orient 6/2012: 82–91. Also published in Spiegel Online, 24.01.2013, http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/moderne-kunst-in-saudi-arabien-edge-of-arabia-s-gesellschaftskritik-a-878604.html.
"Die Einstürzenden Altbauten: Ein Bericht über den Verfall der Altstadt von Dschidda". Zenith: Zeitschrift für den Orient 1/2012: 70–74.
2010
"Die liberale Reformbewegung in Saudi-Arabien: Analyse und Übersetzung der Reformpetition vom 2. Februar 2007". In: Saudi-Arabien: Ein Königreich im Wandel? Edited by Ulrike Freitag, pp. 61–87. Paderborn: Schöningh.
2008
"Der Militäreinsatz in Nahr al-Barid in arabischen Medien". INAMO 53: 28–32.
