Ivan Ejub K.

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Ivan Ejub Kostić is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade. He graduated from the Faculty of Philology at the Department of Oriental Studies, Arabic Language and Literature. He obtained a master’s degree at the same department, defending the thesis "Aspects of the Islamic Reformism in the 19th and 20th Centuries". From 2011 to 2013 he worked as a lecturer at the Faculty of Media and Communications at Singidunum University, Belgrade in courses Culture and History of the Middle East and Orientalism and Occidentalism. He is one of the founders of the Balkan Centre for the Middle East and became its Executive Director in 2013. He co-authored the book "Persecuted Islam" published in 2013, and in 2019 he authored the books "Contemporary Islamic Thought" and "Religion, Belief and Civic Identity". He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the European Muslim Network based in Brussels, the Editorial Board of the "Journal of Religious Sciences Kom" and is the editor-in-chief of the regional online platform Algoritam - Contemporary Islamic Thought and Culture. He is also a regular contributor to the Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, published since 2009 by Brill, Leiden Publishing House, as well as to the Islamophobia in Europe project, sponsored by the SETA Foundation (Siyaset, Ekonomi ve Toplum Araştırmaları Vakfı). He is the author of numerous scientific papers and texts in the field of Islamic studies. He is a frequent commentator for the leading media in the country and region on the topic of the Islam in the Balkans, religion and nationalism, Islamophobia and Middle East.

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