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Günter Meyer


Günter Meyer (born 25 August 1946) is a German Geographer and Orientalist. He is director of the Center for Research on the Arab World (CERAW) at the University of Mainz. Meyer focuses mainly on the Political Geography of the Arab World, and the economic as well as urban development in the Middle East, especially in Egypt, Syria, Yemen and the UAE, but also in Germany. He became known to a wider German-speaking audience through interviews on the Iraq War, the Syrian Civil War and on the Libyan Civil War 2011 and 2014.

Meyer studied Geography and English Literature from 1968 to 1973 at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and the New University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. Back in Erlangen, he took his state exams for higher secondary education in 1973, completed his doctorate in Geography in 1976 and qualified as a university lecturer in 1983 with his post-doctoral thesis and other writings in social geographic studies on developments in rural and nomadic areas. He was appointed Professor in Erlangen. In 1993 he changed to the University of Mainz.

Since the mid-1990s he started an intense networking activity organizing the cooperation of Institutes of Oriental studies and orientalists on a national, European and global level.

He headed the first World Congress on Studies of the Middle East in 2002 (WOCMES) in Mainz. The congress attracted about 2.100 scientists from 68 countries, and 126 journalists from all parts of the world.

In 2010 the executive board of WOCMES appointed Meyer again for president. In 2014 he was reelected unanimously for a fourth term of office.


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