Lecturers
Shereen El Feki
Shereen El Feki (@shereenelfeki) is Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) at UNAIDS. She is also the author of Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World (Penguin Random House), a groundbreaking study of sexuality and its intersection with politics, religion and culture across MENA.
Before joining UNAIDS, Shereen was a Regional Director with Promundo, where she led the International Men and Gender Equality Survey Middle East and North Africa (IMAGES MENA), a pioneering study of men, masculinities and gender roles across seven countries in the region. Shereen has previously served as Vice-Chair of the UN’s Global Commission on HIV and the Law, as well as working as a presenter with Al Jazeera and Healthcare Correspondent at The Economist. Shereen is also an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Global Health at Chatham House, and is a former board member of Advocates for Youth. She started her career with a BSc from the University of Toronto and an MPhil and PhD in molecular immunology from the University of Cambridge.
Nina Fárová
Nina Fárová is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Gender and Science of the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences. She holds MA in Sociology and PhD in Anthropology from University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. She has been conducting an ethnographic research into the Czech educational system, focusing on the issue of men and masculinity in a feminized context.
As a member of the Centre for Gender and Science, she has taken part in several research projects focused for example on working conditions in Czech academia or on the fate of scientific knowledge in the (post)socialist chemical industry. She is also a lecturer at the University of Hradec Králové where she teaches gender theory and qualitative methodology.
Mohamed Hassan
Mohamed Hassan comes from the province of Qualiobia north of Cairo, he graduated from Czech studies at Ain Shams University and works there as an assistant of Czech. He has also finished master degree at the Institute of Czech Studies at Charles University and he is currently studying a doctor program at the Institute of Czech Language and Theory of Communication at the Charles University in Prague. He also works as a teacher of standard and spoken Arabic language.
Lumír Honzík
Between 2001 and 2016, Lumír Honzík worked as the Managing Director of the Astronomical Observatory and Planetarium Pilsen. He is currently the head of the Pilsen branch of the Observatory in Rokycany and Plzeň (HvRaP), where he also works as a professional. He is in charge of education programs for schools, mobile planetarium, promotion activities, astronomical extracurricular activities etc.
He is also member of the statewide Executive Committee of the Czech Astronomical Association (ČAS) as well as member of the Western Bohemian branch of the ČAS. For many years he has been a professor as well as an expert guarantor for the courses “Introduction to Astronomy” and “Introduction to Meteorology and Climatology” at the University of the Third Age (U3V), itself part of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. He teaches at the U3V in Pilsen, Sokolov and Klatovy, previously in Tachov as well.
Moris Issa
A director and a translator. Mr. Issa was born in 1945 in Syria, after finishing high school he left for Prague where he graduated from FAMU lead by Elmar Klos, his major in movie directing. Some of his earliest works were short films such as A Cat in the Rain (Kočka v dešti) or Pukrylukri. His first full-length film was Bison in 1990. Others worth mentioning are e.g. a fairy tale The Golden Princess or Františka - About Green Gandles and The Black Mother of God.
The respective names in Czech of the two last mentioned movies are Zlatá princezna and Františka aneb o zelených svících a černé matce boží. Mr. Issa cooperated with the Czech Television as a co-director on a documentary cycle about contemporary medicine called Diagnosis (Diagnóza). He also directed two episodes of Cestománia - Syria: One Thousand and One Faces (Sýrie: Tisíc a jedna tvář) and Yemen: Where time has stopped. (Jemen: Zastavený čas).
Daniel Krejčí
Student of the Department of Political Science and International Relations and graduate 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.
Doc. PhDr. František Ondráš, Ph.D.
A literature researcher focused on Arabian literature and a lecturer of the Arabic. Mr. Ondráš graduated from the Orient - Arab studies at the FF of the Charles University (CU) in Prague. He worked as a lecturer of Czech in Cairo from 1990 to 1995. Currently, he lectures at the Near East and Africa Department of the FF CU leading courses of practical Arabic and its Egyptian dialect.
He is interested in literature science, literature critics focused on modern Arabic written prose and translations. He is the author of several publications, e.g. Modern Egyptian prose in 80's and 90's (Moderní egyptská próza v osmdesátých a devadesátých letech dvacátého století), Egyptian spoken Arabic (Egyptská hovorová arabština), An autobiographic narrative document in the works of the Egyptian author Sun´alláh Ibráhím (Autobiografický narativní dokument v díle egyptského autora Sun´alláha Ibráhíma) and The picture of the old Egypt in modern Egyptian prose (Obraz starého Egypta v moderní egyptské próze).
doc. PhDr. Bronislav Ostřanský, PhD.
Dr. Ostřanský graduated from the Arab studies and the history and culture of the Islam countries at the FF of the Charles University in Prague. He also lectured Czech at the university in Cairo. Currently, he works as a researcher at the Orient department of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, where he is interested in classical Islam, sufism, folk religiosity, and the culture of the Islam countries in general.
He published several books and papers, including the Arab Oneirocriticism in the Middle Ages and Present (Arabská oneirokritika ve středověku a v současnosti), and A small Encyclopedia of the Islam and Muslim Society (Malá encyklopedie islámu a muslimské společnosti).
PhDr. Petr Pelikán
V osmdesátých letech se na Univerzitě Karlově vyučil orientalistou a od té doby paběrkuje na poli styků mezi Československem a zeměmi, kde se mluví arabsky a persky. Přednáší na Katedře blízkovýchodních studií v Plzni, tlumočí, konzultuje a řeší nedorozumění vznikající na styku kultur. Četné stáže na univerzitách po zemích Blízkého Východu i pracovní pobyty z něj udělaly zarytého vlastence, vážícího si krás domova a nadšeného cestovatele.
Magdalena Pospíchalová
Magdalena Pospíchalová je živnostnice na volné noze z Čelákovic. Už déle než tři roky aktivně pomáhá lidem na útěku. Vše začalo na podzim roku 2015, ve dnech, kdy bylo uprchlíkům zablokovaným u nádraží Keleti v Budapešti umožněno vydat se vlaky do Německa. Na Hlavním nádraží v Praze se tehdy sešla malá skupinka lidí s jídlem, aby jim cestu zpříjemnili.
Krátce nato se spontánně zformovala skupina dobrovolníků, kteří po více než rok v pravidelných směnách obcházeli vlaky a uprchlíky aktivně vyhledávali, aby jim poskytli základní potřeby, poradenství a pomoc. Tehdy se také utvořila skupina lidí, kteří ubytovávali ve svých domovech uprchlíky přes noc, aby si odpočinuli před další cestou. „Domů si je brávali studenti, rodiny i matky samoživitelky.
Bc. Kateřina Gamal Richterová
Narodila se v severočeském Varnsdorfu, s rodiči žila v nedalekém Rumburku. Po maturitě absolvovala bakalářský obor blízkovýchodní studia na Západočeské univerzitě v Plzni, kde nyní pokračuje navazujícím magisterským oborem. V roce 2012 absolvovala kurz arabského jazyka pro cizince na Kuvajtské univerzitě.
V roce 2015 přispívala do online multikulturního košer magazínu Shekel. Od roku 2016 je součástí týmu HateFree Culture, kde spravuje sociální sítě a píše zejména pozitivní zprávy pro web Hatefree.cz.
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