Dima Abu Alkheir

Doctoral Researcher

Dima Abu Alkheir

  • Kurzer Lebenslauf

    • Since 10/2025: Doctoral researcher at the GIGA Institute for Middle East Studies and University of Hamburg
    • 02/2024 - 09/2025: Student research assistant at the GIGA Institute for Middle East Studies
    • 11/2023 - 01/2024: Internship at the GIGA Institute for Middle East Studies
    • Education: MA in Peace Research and International Relations, University of Tübingen

    Dissertation

    • Staging Religious Legitimacy through Custodianship: The Case of The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

    Dima Abu Alkheir

    Doctoral Researcher

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    British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies | 02.2026

    Russian Geonarratives and Arab Media: Multipolarity, Eurasianism and Constructed ‘non-Wests’

    This article uses the concept of geonarratives and a dataset of nearly 3000 newspaper articles from Egypt, the Gulf countries, Iraq and Lebanon to analyse the perceptions and space framing assumptions of Russian geopolitical imaginaries in the Arab world and how history is mobilized to support them.

    Datensatz | 2026

    Codebook and Dataset Russian Geonarratives and Arab Media (RUGAME)

    The dataset Russian Geonarratives and Arab Media (RUGAME) contains 2.890 coded articles from a diverse collection of Arab media. It examines how Russian geonarratives such as multipolarity and Eurasianism are perceived in the Arab world, in particular their space-framing assumptions and the space-making processes that accompany them such as infrastructure-building.

    https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/VZIZUE

    GIGA Focus Nahost | 1/2026

    Ten Things to Watch in the Middle East and North Africa in 2026

    Europa bleibt für Golfstaaten bei Investitionen und geopolitischen Überlegungen zweitrangig. In Gaza und im Sudan ist internationale Vermittlung nötig. Der Libanon und Syrien drohen zu zerfallen. Wir stellen zehn zentrale Themen vor, die im Jahr 2026 die Entwicklungen im Nahen Osten und Nordafrika prägen werden.

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