Alumni
Imad Samir
Visiting Scholar (2016–2017)
PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Damascus, Syria
Imad Samir is a Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, where he works on the English translation of al-Khazini's 11th-century Balance of Wisdom book. He is also a research associate at the Department of Ancient Oriental Studies at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena for the project "Etymological Dictionary of Akkadian," and translatorof the scripture "al-āla allatī tuzammir bi-nafsihā" of Banū Mūsā.