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Assaad Elias Kattan is a professor in Orthodox theology at the Centre of Religious Studies at the University of Münster. Before arriving at Münster, Kattan taught at the University of Balamand from 2001 to 2004. His areas of interest are hermeneutics and Christian-Muslim dialogue, and he has also written on the history of Christianity and the Orthodox experience in the Middle East. Kattan headed a project called "Beyond the Centres: Religion and Enlightenment Based on the Examples of Islam and of Greek and Arabic Christianity in South-Eastern Europe and the Levant," which explored the idea that the Enlightenment was not necessarily opposed to religion. Kattan earned his B.A. from the University of Balamand, Lebanon, and his Th.D. from Marburg University.