Secularism and Islam. State religion and modernity in muslim world - Ecaterina Matoi Marius Lazar

Ecaterina Matoi is program director at the Middle East Political and Economic Institute MEPEI in Bucharest Romania. She teaches and delivers lectures on various topics related to the contemporary Arab-Muslim space at military and civilian institutions in Romania and abroad. As a specialist in state and nation-building she conducts seminars for prospective specialists in post-conflict reconstruction and crisis management. Marius Lazar is lecturer at the Faculty of History and Philosophy Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca and executive director of the Centre for Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Studies at the same Faculty. He teaches International Relations Regional Geopolitics History of the Contemporary Middle East Introduction to Islamology and has carried out research internships and professional mobilities in France Egypt Morocco Tunisia Algeria Lebanon Iran and India.