Elham Manea

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Elham M. Manea (* 1966 in Egypt ) is a Yemeni - Swiss political scientist and author .

Life

Manea, daughter of a diplomat , spent her childhood and youth in Arab and Western countries. Today she works as a private lecturer at the University of Zurich . She is committed to a humanistic Islam ; For them, human rights are the highest good and must not be touched. In addition to her academic work, she also published the novellas Echo (2005) and Sins (2008) in Arabic .

She studied political science in Kuwait and the USA . From 1990 to 1993 Elham Manea held a position as an assistant in the political science department of the University of Sana'a, Yemen. During this time she wrote and published a book on Yemeni political parties. This study is used as a learning tool at the University of Sana'a. In 1995, she received a Masters in Comparative Politics from American University , Washington, DC . With her dissertation Regional Politics in the Developing World: The Case of the Arabian Peninsula (Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Oman) , she received her doctorate from the University of Zurich in 2001. The work was published in 2005 by Saqi Books Verlag, London.

Between 1997 and 2005 she worked for Radio Swiss International and Swissinfo as a presenter, multimedia journalist and later deputy. Head of the Arabic Service. Between 2006 and 2009 she worked as a habilitation in the university research focus Asia and Europe. Since 2005 she has been working as a consultant for government and international organizations in the areas of women's rights , politics and development ( Freedom House , World Bank , USAID, SDC , Federal Commission for Women's Issues, etc.).

Elham Manea is a Yemeni-Swiss dual citizen and lives in Bern . She is a member of the board of the Forum for a Progressive Islam in Switzerland. She is also co-founder of the Ibn-Rushd-Goethe Mosque in Berlin, which stands for a secular, liberal Islam that separates secular and religious power and strives for a contemporary and gender-equitable interpretation of the Koran and the Hadith.

Fonts

  • The Arab State and Women's Rights: The Trap of Authoritarian Governance (London: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics), 2011, ISBN 978-0-415-61773-4 .
  • The Arab National Security between Theory and Reality. In: Althawabit Periodical. Sanaa 1993, pp. 197-231.
  • with MA Sharafuddin: Political parties and organizations in Yemen 1948–1993. An analytical study. Athawabit, Sana 1994.
  • La tribu et l'Etat au Yémen. In: Mondher Kilani (ed.): Islam et changement social. Payot, Lausanne 1998, ISBN 2-601-03225-1 , pp. 205-218.
  • Regional politics in the developing world. The case of the Arabian Peninsula: Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Oman. Dissertation. University of Zurich 2001.
  • Regional politics in the Gulf. Saqi, London 2005, ISBN 0-86356-583-2 .
  • Survival and Surrender: Family Dominions in the Arabian Peninsula. In: Hartmut Fähndrich (Ed.): Hereditary power: Monarchies and dynasties in the Arab world. Campus, Frankfurt am Main, New York 2005, ISBN 3-593-37733-0 , pp. 81-102.
  • We do not speak the same language! In: Bernhard Debatin (Hrsg.): The cartoon controversy and the freedom of the press: Conflicts of values ​​and norms in global media culture. LIT, Münster 2007, ISBN 978-3-8258-9950-9 , pp. 45-47.
  • The Arab State and Women's Rights: The Case of Saudi Arabia. The limits of the possible. In: Orient . 49, No. 2. Röper, Hamburg 2008, ISSN  0030-5227 .
  • I don't want to be silent anymore. Herder, Freiburg i. Br., Basel, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-451-29756-4 . ( Review on swissinfo.ch)
  • Everyday Islamism: Terror begins where we allow it. Kösel, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-466-37212-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gian Signorell and Peter Johannes Meier: Women want a new Islam , observer January 20, 2010
  2. ↑ Claudius Prößer: Liberal Mosque for Berlin: "I want to become an imamin" . In: the daily newspaper . ( taz.de [accessed June 19, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Manea, Elham
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Manea, Elham M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yemeni-Swiss political scientist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Egypt