Sasha Dehghani

Sasha Dehghani received a M.A. degree in Islamic Studies, Political Science, Protestant Theology/Religious Studies from the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena and earned a ‘summa cum laude’ Ph.D. in Arabic Studies from the Free University of Berlin.

Dr. Dehghani has taught and conducted research at leading academic institutions in Germany, the Middle East and the United States, such as the American University of Beirut, the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research in Berlin or the Centre for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. Since 2012 Dr. Dehghani has been a researcher and project manager at the Centre for the Study of the Sacred Texts at the Baha‘i World Centre in Haifa. His most recent appointments include the Forum Humanum Visiting Professorship at the Academy of World Religions at the University of Hamburg in 2020/2021 and service as Visiting Research Professor at the Baha’i Chair for World Peace at the University of Maryland.