Dr. Frank Peter has studied modern history, Islamic and Middle Eastern studies, and Arabic in Hamburg, Aix-en-Provence and Damascus. Before joining HBKU, he was Assistant Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Bern, where he received his Habilitation in Islamic Studies with a forthcoming monograph entitled “Islam and the Governing of Muslims in France: Secularism without ‘Religion’.” He has co-edited a number of volumes including Islamic Movements of Europe: Public Religion and Islamophobia in the Modern World (2014) and Islam and the Politics of Culture in Europe: Memory, Aesthetics, Art.