Jing Lin

Dr Jing Lin is a research fellow at the Middle East Institute in National University of Singapore. She earned her PhD in Religious Studies from Peking University, focusing on Medieval Jewish philosophy. She holds an M.A. in Jewish Studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a B.A. in Arabic Language & Literature from Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU). She has been a senior lecturer at the School of Asian & African Studies at BFSU, where she directed the Department of Hebrew Studies from 2010 to 2019. From 2020 to 2021, Dr Lin was a visiting associate at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Her research interests include China-MENA relations, Israel studies and inter-religious relations. She has published extensively in these areas and translated several Hebrew literary works into Chinese.