Dr Sascha Rasheed Klement
Dr Sascha Rasheed Klement
Member, MEMOs

Born in Germany, Sascha studied English and comparative Literature at the Universities of Kent at Canterbury and Exeter, eventually writing a thesis on 'Representations of Global Civility: English Travellers in the Ottoman Empire and the South Pacific, 1636 -1863', for which he did research in the UK, Germany and Turkey. At Kent, he received the Sasha-Roberts-Scholarship for MA-students, his doctoral research was funded by a University of Exeter scholarship and his research in Ankara, Turkey, was supported by a grant from the British Institute at Ankara (BIAA). His first monograph is currently under consideration for publication. Sascha's research interests include eighteenth-century literature and philosophy, travel writing, the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, as well as political activism and social change. He currently lives in Cairo, Egypt, where he teaches English and history at an international school. Sascha can be reached at: [email protected].