Mr. Sárkány began his higher education studies at the Department of Arabic, Faculty of Humanities, ELTE Budapest, Hungary. He acquired extensive knowledge in the history, culture, languages (Arabic, Turkish, Persian) and religions of the Arab-Islamic world.
As part of his degree program, he completed the academic year 1999/2000 in Tunisia at the end of which, he received a certificate of advanced proficiency in Arabic from the Habib Bourgheba Institute in Tunisia.
Continuing his studies in Arabic in Budapest, he graduated with honors in 2004 (MA). In 2006, he became a visiting lecturer at the same department, teaching classical and modern Arabic and Arab-Islamic history and culture.
In 2007-2010, he performed the same activity as a PhD student and, and as a researcher at the Avicenna Institute for Near Eastern Studies Hungary, he translated 9th-10th-century Arabic religious and philosophical texts into Hungarian and German. In 2010, he fulfilled the pre-conditions for the doctoral dissertation by completing the qualifying exam.
Between 2013 and 2022, he assisted the work of the Office of the Hungarian Parliament with his expertise. In 2022, he participated in projects of the Ministry of Education. Between 2023-2024, he translated fiction and professional texts.
He has been a researcher and geopolitical analyst at the Eurasia Center at John Neumann University since December 2024.
His research area is the geopolitical developments, strategics and issues in the Middle East and North Africa, focusing on topics such as: The multipolar order and the role of the Middle Eastern states/the shifts of power balance/ non-alignment strategies/ rise of new powers. The challenges and possibilities of peace and stability with diversified cooperations, multi non-alignment, the practice of separating different aspects of a relationship in international relations. EU-MENA relations.