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Conferences/Events/Lectures

• Lecture Series "GIGA Forum"

• IMES very well represented at the World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies
  The World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES) - the most important international conference on the Middle East - took place in Barcelona between July 19th – 24th, 2010. IMES members were very actively involved in this event. In the panel „(No) Regional Powers in the Middle East“, organized by Prof. Dr. Henner Fürtig - in addition to him - PD Dr. Martin Beck, Dr. Thomas Richter und Oliver Borszik presented papers. Jun.-Prof. Dr. Juliane Brach organized and chaired two panels (panel 1, panel 2) on the impact of the world financial crisis on the Middle East. André Bank chaired two panels on the politics of post-democratization (panel 1, panel 2) and presented a paper on the role of islamist actors in Jordan.

• IMES well represented at the DAVO Annual Congress 2009
  The most important German-speaking Middle East conference organized by the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO) took place at the University of Bonn between October 8 and 10, 2009. Jun.-Prof. Dr. Juliane Brach and Dr. Thomas Richter were actively involved in this event organizing panels, presenting and discussing papers about the world financial crisis and its impact on the Middle East, coup d’États and elections in Mauritania and the Middle East regional order of the 21st century (link to the program).

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New Publications

• GIGA Focus Nahost (German-language version only)
  Nr. 7, 2010: Libanon: Heiße Spuren im „Mordfall Hariri“? (Stephan Rosiny)

• GIGA Working Paper
  Thomas Richter: When Do Autocracies Start to Liberalize Foreign Trade? Evidence from Four Cases in the Arab World, April 2010

• Brach, Juliane/Loewe, Markus (2010): The International Financial Crisis: Impact, Reactions and Perspectives for the Arab World, in: Mediterranean Politics, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 45-71.

• Brach, Juliane (2010): Technology, Political Economy, and Economic Development in the Middle East and North Africa, in: Review of Middle East Economics and Finance (Full text)

• Mattes, Hanspeter (2010): Die heterogene Wahrnehmung Irans in den arabischen Staaten: Für die einen "strategischer Partner", für die anderen "aggressiver Hegemonialstaat", in: Sigrid Faath (Hg.), Rivalitäten und Konflikt zwischen Sunniten und Schiiten in Nahost, Berlin: DGAP, pp. 71-98 (Full text)

• Fürtig, Henner: Iran’s Sisyphean Labour – 30 Years of Spreading “Islam’s Revolutionary Message”, in: Journal of Semitic Studies, 2009/Supplement 26, pp. 171-189

• Richter, Thomas: Materielle Ressourcen und der Beginn orthodoxer Wirtschaftsreformen in Marokko, Tunesien, Ägypten und Jordanien. Der Rentierstaatsansatz unter Anpassungsdruck?, in Martin Beck/Cilja Harders/Annette Juenemann/Stephan Stetter (eds.): Der Nahe Osten im Umbruch. Zwischen Transformation und Autoritarismus, Wiesbaden, VS-Verlag, pp. 50-77.

Personnel matters

• The GIGA and Universität Hamburg are seeking to jointly fill the position of GIGA President effective 1 October 2011.

• New Staff Member at the GIGA Institute of Middle East Studies
  On May 1, 2010, Dr. Stephan Rosiny joined the GIGA Institute of Middle East Studies as a new research fellow. He is an expert on political Islam (Islamism) in the Arab Middle East (particularly in Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq) and on contemporary Shia Islam.

• New Staff Member at the GIGA Institute of Middle East Studies
  On March 1, 2010, André Bank joined the GIGA Institute of Middle East Studies as a new research fellow. His research focuses include authoritarianism and statehood in the Arabian Middle East (particularly in Jordan and Syria), violent orders in the context of Middle Eastern wars (Palestine, Iraq, Lebanon), and the change in regional politics between Arabism and Islamism.

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