Since 2007, Wolfram Reiss has been professor of Comparative Religion at the Evangelical Theological Faculty at the University of Vienna, Austria. He wrote his PhD thesis on reform in the Coptic Orthodox Church in 1996 which was
summarized by Arab-West Report in 2002. In the same year, Prof. Reiss became a member of the advisory board of the precursor of Arab-West Report, the
Religious News Service from the Arab-World.
From 2001 to 2005, and 2009 to 2012 Wolfram Reiss was a research fellow of an international research project, in which textbooks of six Middle Eastern countries were analysed in regards to their portrayal of Western and Oriental Christianity. The results were documented in three volumes (Vol. I: Egypt and Palestine; Vol II: Turkey and Iran, 2005, and Vol. III: Lebanon and Jordan, 2012). The first volume was part of his habilitation thesis on "The Portrayal of Christianity in Egyptian Textbooks, upon which Arab West Report reported.