Alioune Niang serves as an educational consultant at ufuq.de’s Berlin office for pedagogy between Islam, anti-Muslim racism and Islamism and in charge of the development and implementation of trainings for educators. He studied law at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar as well as history and Romance studies at the University of Bremen.

Dr. Götz Nordbruch is a social scientist and co-founder of ufuq.de. Nordbruch served as a research associate at the Institut de recherches et d’études sur le monde arabe et musulman in Aix-en-Provence and at the Georg-Eckert-Institut – Leibniz-Institut – for international textbook research in Braunschweig. From 2008 to 2011, he served as an assistant professor at the Centre for Contemporary Middle East Studies at the University of Southern Denmark.