Professor Josef Meri was most recently a visiting professor at Georgetown University’s branch campus in Qatar and served as a research affiliate at the Alwaleed Center from 2021 to 2024. In June 2024, he was appointed Senior Fellow. His extensive background in the academic study of interfaith relations in past and present in the Middle East and global contexts, Middle Eastern and Islamic history, and the history of religions has led him to hold various academic positions. Meri has lived in various cities around the world, including Amman, Berkeley (California), Binghamton (New York), Cairo, Cambridge (UK), Damascus, Doha, Jerusalem, London, Munich, and Oxford (UK). He has taught in institutions in London, Cambridge, Munich, and Doha. His teaching encompasses themes of identity and belonging, history and autobiography, memory, religious pluralism, interfaith and inter-spiritual relations, religious experience, the sacred and the secular, comparative religion, the history of religions, and applied research methodologies in the humanities and social sciences.