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Jörg Matthias Determann is an associate professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar. He also serves as an associate editor of the Review of Middle East Studies. Previously, Determann worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Zentrum Moderner Orient and the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, Freie Universität Berlin. He also taught at King Saud University and was a visiting scholar at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh. He holds a doctorate from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and master’s degrees from the University of Vienna. In 2013, he was a joint winner of the BRISMES Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize for the best doctoral thesis on a Middle Eastern topic at a university in the United Kingdom. He is the author of four books published by I.B. Tauris: Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life; Space Science and the Arab World; Researching Biology and Evolution in the Gulf States; and Historiography in Saudi Arabia. He is currently writing a book about the history of the movement for equity, diversity and inclusion in modern astronomy.