Claus Leggewie

Claus Leggewie is a political scientist at Huyesen University, specialist in de-colonization matters (he wrote his thesis with Bassam Tibi about the French colonization policy in Algeria). From 1995 to 1997, he headed the Max Weber studies at the Center for European Studies of the University of New York. As of 2001, he has been the advisor of the German government on Islamic matters and a member of the committee for the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin. He is the author of Islam and the West, Internet, -The U.S. in our Minds as well as The Holocaust and History of German Policy.