She is an anthropological archaeologist specialising in socio-spatial aspects of the built environment and urbanism, especially in context with Africa and the Mediterranean. She studied at University College London and completed her Habilitation at the Charles University in Prague. In her research, she explores the frontiers of interdisciplinary research on material culture and cultural heritage. She has experience with teaching and research from universities in Switzerland, Sweden, the UK and Germany, and has held several international fellowships and grant projects. From 2019 she has worked at the Department, focusing on precolonial and colonial Africa, the built environment, Islamic archaeology and comparative research on space and sensory perception. Her publications include Urban public space in colonial transformations, published in Contributions to Global Historical Archaeology series, Springer Nature, 2022). At present, she is the Principal Investigator of a project titled Coral stone house construction on the Swahili coast (Lamu, Kenya) under the Endangered Material Knowledge Programme (awarded by the British Museum).

graduated from the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, where he currently works as a researcher and project manager. Within the framework of international projects (Interreg CE, Ziel ETZ 2014-2020) focused on migration and integration of foreigners, he is involved in coordination of project activities, implementation of professional and networking workshops, preparation of integration activities for third-country nationals and scientific research. His second line of professional interest is the modern history of North West Africa, Berber identity and the relations between Europe and North Africa in the pre-colonial and colonial periods, which is also the subject of his PhD research at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of West Bohemia. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the UWB (2002-2005), where his thesis dealt with the multicultural policy of the Czech Republic in relation to the "Roma community". After completing his Master's degree in Cultural Anthropology of the Middle East at the UWB (2005-2007), he defended his dissertation on "Medieval Arab-Islamic Medicine: a History of Interpretation" at the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Philosophy at the UWB in Pilsen. Since 2006 he has been teaching at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, mainly Arabic language and realities of Syria and Lebanon. He is also interested in the topic of migration from the Middle East and in his practice of court interpreting in Arabic he meets refugees from the Middle East. He is the coordinator of Erasmus mobility between UWB in Pilsen and Harran University Sanliurfa in Turkey. Last but not least, he is a lecturer of Czech and Arabic at Fachakademie für Sprachen und Internationale Kommunikatio in Weiden, Germany.

is a cultural anthropologist specializing in the Middle East, particularly Shi'a Islam. Her research focuses on Islamic medical ethics and the contemporary transformation of methodology of Shia Islamic law. She conducts her main research in the center of world Shiism, Qom, Iran, as well as in Najaf and Karbala, Iraq. She has published a number of articles on the subject, mainly in international journals.

Ethnologist and historian dealing with theories of nations, nationalism and anti-Semitism, national, ethnic and religious identities, Central European cities, history of the field of ethnology (anthropology) and marginalised groups (see bibliography), teaches at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Middle Eastern Studies and the Department of Historical Sciences of the Faculty of Humanities in Prague. 

is a historian, anthropologist and Israel studies scholar from the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, which is also his alma mater. Having originally studied Ecology and Environmental Protection, he switched to Cultural Anthropology of the Near East in 2004 (BA. in 2007, MA in 2009) and Historical Sciences/Ethnology (Ph.D. in 2012). His research interests include the history of modern Israel, Czech-Israeli relations, Holocaust memory and contemporary anti-Semitism. He participates in national and international grant projects on these topics. He is currently working on the issue of Czechoslovak emigration to Palestine/Israel during World War II, the institutionalization of Holocaust memory and the issue of anti-Semitism in Czech conspiracy narratives. His research is interdiscipinary in nature, combining traditional methods with modern technologies (digital humanities). The results of his research have been published in two books and approximately forty academic articles and monograph chapters. He regularly speaks in the media and appears in public lectures and debates. Abroad, he has delivered approximately two dozen keynote lectures in Europe and the USA. He has held fellowships in Italy, Israel and the United States. He is an active speaker of Czech, Hebrew, English and German and a passive reader of modern written Arabic. Since 2022, he has been the supervisor of the Bachelor's degree program in Middle Eastern Studies at KBS FF ZČU. In addition, he is a member of several project teams, for example at the Department of Art HIstory, Czech Academy of Sciences.

is an Islamic studies scholar and cultural anthropologist specializing in the traditional religious expressions of Islamic societies and the development of interfaith understanding. She draws on her academic background from Al-Azhar University in Cairo and the University of Zaytuna in Tunis for interdisciplinary research in Quranic studies, focusing particularly on oral traditions and lived practices as means of transmitting the Holy Text. Since 2019, she has been working at the Department of Near Eastern Studies.

studied philosophy and religious studies at the Faculty of Philosophy and postgraduate religious studies at the Evangelical Theological Faculty of Charles University. She collaborated with prof. Milan Balabán on several publications and during his doctoral studies while teaching religious studies at ETF. She was a member of the editorial board of the Christian Review. She completed several research trips and field research in the Mediterranean and Middle East. He contributes to several periodicals. She is the author of 8 monographs and a whole series of chapters in publications, professional and popularization articles. He holds lectures for the public, especially in the field of religious studies and Judaism. He mainly deals with religious studies, Judaism and the problems of anti-Semitism.

is an Africanist, historian and anthropologist, his research deals with modern and contemporary history of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa, issues of ethnicity and nationalism, conflicts in Africa, Czechoslovak-African relations during the Cold War, and issues of migration, security and development in the West African Sahel. He is co-editor of the most comprehensive work on the Horn of Africa to date (Routledge Handbook of the Horn of Africa, 2022). He has written or edited over ten monographs published in the Czech Republic and the USA. In January 2023, he received the Rector's Award of the University of West Bohemia for his contribution to the international development of the university in science and research. He has lectured at about twenty universities in Africa, Europe and the USA.