Lecturers
Klára Jiráčková
A graduate in Middle Eastern Studies and an avid Girl Scout who combined her two passions in her thesis research. Even after all these years, she still holds on to both, working in the field and traveling to Middle Eastern countries regularly. Scouting-wise, she is active on the Gemini education course.
Daniel Krejčí
Student of the Department of Middle Eastern Studies (KBS) at the Faculty of Arts, the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. His passion is studying foreign languages, including Arabic, which he studied at KBS FA UWB. Since 2018, he has also been part of the ARABFEST team, where he participates in the running and organisation of the festival.
Vojtěch Ondráček
He works at the Department of Civic Education and Philosophy at Charles University in Prague. He is interested in the political and social philosophy of sport with a focus on critical theory and radical emancipatory activism of sports actors. His dissertation focused on the French critical theory of sport.
He discusses the topic of the social dimension of sport, its political and historical connotations and its impact on the individual in his podcast Outsider on Deník Alarm. He has published in the professional journal Kontradikce and in the cultural periodicals A2 and Kapitál. Previously, he worked as a football reporter and coach of a women's team.
Fatimi Rahimi
Journalist for the newspaper Deník Referendum, presenter of the programme on religion and spirituality Hergot! Radio Wave, therapist and lecturer. She studied European Spiritual and Cultural History at Charles University and is currently studying Social Work and Criminology at the University of Ostrava. She comes from Afghanistan, from the city of Herat, which is located near the border with Iran.
He has been living in the Czech Republic for twenty years and in his journalistic work he focuses on sports culture, especially football, socio-political events in Afghanistan and Iran, he is also interested in and writes about social issues in the Czech Republic, migration and mental health.
Jiří Zákravský
He works as an assistant professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Technology in Pilsen. His research focuses on the relationship between sport and politics, with an emphasis on sports diplomacy. Among other things, he is the author of the book Cycling Diplomacy. Undemocratic Regimes and Professional Road Cycling Teams Sponsorship.
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