Thorsten Botz-Bornstein is German, has done his entire undergraduate studies in philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris and holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Oxford University. He also holds a habilitation from the EHESS in Paris. Having acquired Russian, he went for four years to Finland after completing his Ph.D. His work on stylistics brought him to Japan. He has also done research for several years on Chinese culture and philosophy in China (Zhejiang University), and taught at a historically black university in Alabama (Tuskegee University). He is working on various philosophical topics, most often from an intercultural perspective. Given the importance that Islamic culture has begun to play on the international scene, he decided in 2009 to move to the Middle East (Kuwait). He has published on Islamic culture, religion, and politics.