Orientalism and Conspiracy

Arndt Graf is Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Frankfurt. Previously he taught at Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang and at the Asia-Africa-Institute of the University of Hamburg. He has also held visiting positions at Cornell University, the State Islamic University Syarif Hidayatullah in Jakarta and the University of La Rochelle. He has published widely, mainly on rhetoric, media and communication in Southeast Asia. Schirin Fathi is Assistant Professor in the Asia-Africa Institute at the University of Hamburg. Her publications include Jordan - An Invented Nation?: Tribe-State Dynamics and the Formation of National Identity and the Lexikon des Nahostkonflikts. She has further published and taught on issues relating to the Middle East conflict and democracy. Ludwig Paul is Professor of Iranian Studies at the University of Hamburg. His main areas of research include Iranian linguistics and the history of Persian. He is the author of Persian Origins: Early Judaeo-Persian and the Emergence of New Persian as well as numerous articles on Iranian linguistics and cultural studies.