Salim Murad

Salim Murad is a lecturer in Political Science at the Pedagogical Faculty of the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice. He teaches courses on the History of Political Thought, the Basics of Political Science, the Political System of the Czech Republic, the Principles of Multicultural Tolerance, and the Integration of Europe. He is also finishing his research as a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at Comenius University in Bratislava.

Murad graduated from the Faculty of Social Studies at Masaryk University in Brno with a degree in Political Science. From April to June 2003, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Refugee Studies Centre, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford. His reseach there was the Issue of Asylum in the Czech Republic: From the Fall of Communism to Access to the EU. He also studied at the Institute of Political Science, Copenhagen University in 2004.

His research interests include the current development of migration flows from the perspective of the Czech Republic in uniting Europe and the European Union and its impact on domestic policy development during the transition to democracy and the consolidation of democracy since 1989. Currently he also works on projects for UNHCR Czech Republic, the Human Rights Education Centre of Charles University in Prague.