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Tuba Isik-Yigit

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Known For: Research Assistant, Centre for Comparative Theology & Cultural Studies; PhD student in Islamic Religious Education
Country: Germany

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Tuba Isik-Yigit is a member of the second German Islamic Conference. She is also a research assistant at the Centre for Comparative Theology and Cultural Studies and a PhD student in Islamic Religious Education. Previously, she headed the Coalition of Muslim Women in Germany, moderated Jugenddialog 2020 (youth dialogue in Germany), and worked as an education consultant for the SCHURACouncil Niedersachsen, Hannover.

Ms. Isik-Yigit has a Master’s degree in Law and Pedagogy from Georg-August University of Göttingen (Germany). She received further instruction in Islamic teaching in the German language at the University of Osnabruck. She was also a PhD student at the Leibniz University of Hannover and a PhD fellow of the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation.

Ms. Isik-Yigit speaks Turkish, German, and English. She also has a basic grasp of Arabic.

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