Stefan Weidner

Born in 1967, Stefan Weidner studied Islamic Studies, German, and philosophy in Göttingen, Damascus, Berkeley, and Bonn. He worked as an author, translator, literary critic, and journalist, and served as editor-in-chief of the cultural magazine Art & Thought/Fikrun wa Fann from 2001 to 2016. His Arabic translations include poems by Adonis and Mahmoud Darwish. His work received, among other honors, the Clemens Brentano Prize, the Johann Heinrich Voß Prize, and the Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding. His books include Mohammedanische Versuchungen (2004), Jenseits des Westens (2018), Ground Zero. 9/11 und die Geburt der Gegenwart (2021), and 1001 Buch. Die Literaturen des Orients.