Kostić, Ivan Ejub
Ivan Ejub Kostić obtained a Ph.D. degree in political sciences at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade. Before that he graduated from the Faculty of Philology at the Department of Oriental Studies, Arabic Language and Literature. He obtained a master’s degree at the same department, defending the thesis Aspects of Islamic Reformism in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
From 2011 to 2013 he worked as a lecturer at the Faculty of Media and Communications at Singidunum University in courses Culture and History of the Middle East and Orientalism and Occidentalism.
He is one of the founders of the Balkan Centre for the Middle East and became its Executive Director in 2013. He co-authored the book Progonjeni islam (Persecuted Islam) published in 2013, and in 2019 he authored the books Savremena islamska misao (Contemporary Islamic Thought) and Religija, verovanje i građanski identitet (Religion, Belief, and Civic Identity).
He is a member of the Steering Committee of the European Muslim Network based in Brussels, the Editorial Board of the Journal of Religious Sciences Kom, Belgrade and Anali Gazi-Huserv begove biblioteke, Sarajevo. He is also a regular contributor to the Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, published since 2009 by Brill, Leiden Publishing House, as well as to the Islamophobia in Europe project, sponsored by the SETA Foundation (Siyaset, Ekonomi ve Toplum Araştırmaları Vakfı).
He is the author of numerous scientific papers and texts in the field of religious and Islamic studies. He is a frequent commentator for the leading media in the country and region on the topic of Islam in the Balkans, religion and nationalism, Islamophobia, and the Middle East.