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Wolfgang G. Schwanitz is a German Arabist, Economist, and Historian of the Middle East. He was born on 8 December 1955 in Magdeburg, Germany. He studied economics and political science at the University of Hamburg and the Free University of Berlin. He received his PhD in economics from the Free University of Berlin in 1983. Schwanitz has held various positions in academia, including as a professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Hamburg, and as a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He has also served as a consultant for the German government and the United Nations. Schwanitz is the author of several books on the Middle East, including "The Middle East: A History" (2003), "The Middle East in the 21st Century" (2005), and "The Arab-Israeli Conflict: A History" (2008). He is also the editor of the "Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa" (2004). As of 2021, Wolfgang G. Schwanitz's net worth is estimated to be roughly $1 million.

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Occupation Arabist, Economist, Historian of the Middle East
Age 68 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 8 December 1955
Birthday 8 December
Birthplace Magdeburg, Germany
Nationality Germany

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2000

In 2000, he settled near Princeton, United States. He researches and teaches Arabic, world history, and Middle Eastern history at local colleges, among them Burlington County College in Pemberton, New Jersey, and Rider University in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, (2004–08). He edits a book series of comparative studies on America-Mideast-Europe. He was visiting professor at the Rubin Center for Research in International Affairs at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Israel (2007-2017), and is (Hochberg Family, 2014-2017) Writing Fellow at the Middle East Forum of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1990

In Berlin he headed the research group on Middle Eastern history at the Academy of Sciences. He has taught at Humboldt University, University of Potsdam, and Free University of Berlin. After German reunification, he worked (1990–95) at the Modern Orient Center — founded by the Max Planck Society of Munich — and published books on relations between Germany and the Middle East. In the 1990s he was visiting fellow at CEDEJ, Cairo (1992–93), at Princeton University (1995–97), and at the German-American Center for Visiting Scholars of the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C. (1998). In Princeton, he finished two volumes on the history of Germans in the Middle East after World War II.

1955

Born in 1955 in Magdeburg, Schwanitz lived for seven years in Cairo, Egypt, as his parents were diplomats. Back in East Germany, he attended the Max Planck high school of Berlin. In 1982 he finished five years of Middle Eastern studies as Arabist/Economist at Leipzig University. In 1985 he completed his Ph.D. at Leipzig, on Egypt's open-door policy.

1906

In his history of the German Orient Bank he showed by records from American and German archives how Jewish gold looted by Nazis in occupied Europe was sold in Turkey via the German Orient Bank. This bank was founded in 1906 by Dresdner Bank in Berlin, the second-largest German bank, and served 40 years in the Middle East.

1798

His works on German and American Islam policy where translated into eight languages. Schwanitz authored ten and edited ten books. He authored 90 book chapters on history and politics of the Middle East in international relations since 1798, as modernity came to the Middle East.