Asiem El Difraoui

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Abdelasiem (short: Asiem ) Hassan El Difraoui ( Arabic عبد العظيم حسن الدفراوي, DMG ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm Ḥasan ad-Difrāwī ; born April 5, 1965 in Offenbach am Main ) is an Egyptian - German political scientist , economist , documentary film - and book author . He is particularly concerned with the Arab world and is considered a specialist in jihadist Internet propaganda.

Life

El Difraoui studied politics and economics at the American University of Cairo and the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and earned a bachelor's degree. In 1992 he obtained the research-oriented Diplôme d'études approfondies (DEA) in political science from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (IEP / “Sciences Po”) . In 2010 he has in Gilles Kepel specialist International Relations with his thesis Al-Qaeda par l'image: La du prophétie martyre ( "The Jihad of the images - a political analysis of Al Qaeda's audiovisual propaganda") doctorate .

Asiem El Difraoui has worked as a journalist and documentary writer in Germany, the Arab world, the Balkans, Asia and above all in France. From 1992 to 2008 he created various political documentaries and reports with his production company Impossible Productions . From 2005 to 2010 Asiem El Difraoui was a lecturer at the IEP Paris and from 2010 to October 2012 research assistant in the research group for Near / Middle East and Africa at the Science and Politics Foundation in Berlin . There he worked on the research project “Jihadism on the Internet: The Internationalization of Discourses on Violence on the World Wide Web.” In this capacity, he advised the European Commission- funded “ Clean IT ” project to combat extremist Internet content. Since 2012 he has been a Senior Fellow at the Berlin Institute for Media and Communication Policy . His scientific expertise in the Arab world includes, in particular, Algeria , Egypt , Iraq and Saudi Arabia . El Difraoui has been co-editor of Zenith magazine since 2015 . He is also one of the founders of the Candid Foundation in Berlin, which, as an independent think tank, aims to establish a scientifically based work and dialogue with the Islamic world .

Films (selection)

  • Toulon, showcase of the National Front. Arte, 1998, author.
  • Peace in the Basque Country? Arte Reportage, 1998, author.
  • The siege of Baghdad. Spiegel-TV, 2003, author (with Peter Hell and Steffen Haug).
  • Osama bin Laden: The Prophet of Terror. Spiegel-TV, 2004, author (with Britta Sandberg ).
  • Saving Mecca: A man fights against the destruction of his homeland. WDR, 2005, author.
  • The language of Al Qaeda. Arte / WDR, 2008, author and co-producer (with Mark Johnston).
  • Tahrir 2011: The Good, the Bad and the Politician. WDR / Canal Plus, 2011, co-producer.

Publications (selection)

  • La critique du système démocratique par le Front islamique du salut [The critique of the democratic system by the Islamic Salvation Front], in: Gilles Kepel (ed.), Exils et royaumes: Les appartenances au monde arabo-musulman aujourd'hui: études réunies pour Rémy Leveau, Presse de Sciences Po, Paris 1994, pp. 105 ff.
  • with Stefan Aust: Iraq: History of a Modern War, dtv, Munich 2004.
  • Jihad.de, Jihadist Online Propaganda: Recommendations for Countermeasures in Germany, SWP Studies 2012 / S 05, February 2012 ( available online PDF)
  • with Oliver Hahn: The Arab swarm in the web of media change. A salon dispute on the protest communication of civil movements in more than 140 characters, in: Erik Bettermann and Ronald Grätz (eds.), Digital Challenge. Foreign policy and international communication in the age of Web 2.0, Steidl, Berlin 2012.
  • with Leoni Abel: The Web 2.0 Revolution and Arab Revolutionaries. The role of the new media as political infrastructure in the Arab World, in: Deutsche Welle Media Dialogue 2012. The Arab World: The role of Media in the Arab World's Transformation Process, Vistas, Berlin 2012.
  • Al-Qaeda par l'image: La prophétie du martyre. (Dissertation), PUF , Paris 2013
  • A New Egypt? A journey through a country in turmoil, Hamburg: Edition Körber-Stiftung 2013, ISBN 978-3-89684-152-0
  • as editor and author with Carola Richter: Arabische Medien. UVK, Konstanz and Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-86764-509-6
  • Asiem El Difraoui , Le djihadisme , in: Que-sais-je , Presses Universitaires de France , Paris, 2016
  • Asiem El Difraoui , The role of culture in preventing and reducing violent extremism , in: moreeurope.org , 2017 ( PDF available online )
  • with Milena Uhlmann: Prevention de la radicalization et déradicalization: les modèles allemand, britannique et danois, in: Institut français des relations internationales (IFRI) (ed.), Politique étrangère 2015/4 (Hiver), Justice pénale internationale: un bilan, Paris 2015, ISBN 978-2-36567-453-9

Awards

  • 1998: Franco-German journalism award in the "Television" category for Toulon, Front National showcase.
  • 2004: Bronze World Medal of the New York Film and Television Festival for the Siege of Baghdad.
  • 2006: Silver Award in the “Investigative Reportages” category of the Al Jazeera Documentary Film Festival for Mecca save.
  • 2010: Certificate for Creative Excellence at the US International Film & Video Festival for The Language of Al-Qaida.
  • 2012: Enrico Fulchignoni Prize from UNESCO (awarded at the Venice Film Festival ) for Tahrir 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willy Le Devin: Abdelasiem El Difraoui: "L'Etat islamique veut effrayer, semer la zizanie et recruter en France", in: Liberation of September 22, 2014, accessed on October 10, 2014 (French)
  2. ↑ a b c Fellows ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Short biography on the IfM website, accessed on October 10, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / medienpolitik.eu
  3. ^ Jihadism on the Internet (completed), project information on the SWP website, accessed on October 10, 2014
  4. ↑ Alexander Wragge: Extremism on the Net: "We should make access difficult" , in: Golem.de from October 31, 2012, accessed on October 10, 2014
  5. ↑ Our Founders, Candid Foundation website, accessed October 10, 2014
  6. ↑ L'espoir des Basques = Peace in the Basque Country? Database entry on the website of the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel, accessed on October 10, 2014 (French)
  7. ↑ Osama Bin Laden - The Prophet of Terror, press release for the first broadcast on news aktuell from April 15, 2004, accessed on October 10, 2014
  8. ↑ Awards 1998: Documentaries and reports, on the ARTE website, accessed on October 9, 2014
  9. ↑ Winners Showcase, on the New York Festival website, accessed on October 10, 2014 (English)
  10. ↑ إختتام فعاليات مهرجان الجزيرة الدولي الثاني للإنتاج التلفزيوني ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.qataru.com archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Report from March 31, 2006, accessed on October 10, 2014 (Arabic / English)
  11. ↑ 5 Documentaries win a Gold in FilmFest, message on the website of the US International Film & Video Festival from May 2010, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English)
personal data
SURNAME El Difraoui, Asiem
ALTERNATIVE NAMES El Difraoui, Abdelasiem Hassan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Egyptian-German political scientist, economist, documentary film and book author
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenbach am Main