Ferhad Ibrahim

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Ferhad Ibrahim also Ferhad Seyder (born April 10, 1950 in Amude , Syria ; actually: Ferhad Ibrahîm Seyda ) is a German - Kurdish political scientist and university professor .

Life

Ibrahim attended school in Syria from 1957 to 1970 , before studying geography at the University of Damascus until 1971 , then from 1974 to 1980 political science at the Free University of Berlin as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . There he received his doctorate in 1983, Dr. phil. with the dissertation on The Kurdish National Movement in Iraq: A Case Study on the Problem of Ethnic Conflicts in the Third World . From 1984 to 1986 he completed a traineeship in the library , and from 1986 as a library assessor . His habilitation in political science took place in 1994.

From 1987 to 2000 Ibrahim was assistant professor for political and contemporary history at the Free University of Berlin with guest lectureships at the universities of Bremen , Konstanz and Potsdam . From 2000 to 2002 he was a lecturer in West Asian history at the University of Erfurt . From 2004 to 2010 he was Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Jordan and representative of the German Academic Exchange Service in Amman . In the 2010/11 winter semester he did a research stay in the history of Western Asia at the University of Erfurt; Collaboration (on behalf of the DAAD) in setting up an institute for political science at the University of Dohuk ( Autonomous Region Kurdistan , Iraq ).

Since 2012 he has been an adjunct professor and head of the Mustafa Barzani office for Kurdish studies at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Erfurt . In 2013 Ibrahim moved to the university's political science faculty.

Research priorities

Ibrahim's research focus is on the Kurds . He deals with the cultural history of the Kurds and the Kurdish religious minorities with the history of Kurdish migration , especially in the Federal Republic of Germany.

Fonts (selection)

  • Religion, State and Politics in the Middle East. Together with Amr Hamzawy (2003)
  • (Ed.), Islam and Islamism in the Present (2002)
  • The Middle East Peace Process. A revision. as editor together with Abraham Ashkenasi (2001)
  • The Kurdish Conflict in Turkey. Together with Gülistan Gürbey (2000)
  • Problems of civil society in the Middle East. As editor together with Heidi Wedel (1995)
  • Denominationalism and Politics in the Arab World. The Shiites in Iraq. (1997)
  • Reconciliation in default. Together with Sabine Hofman (1996)
  • The Kurdish Factor in the Syrian Civil War. (2013)
  • The Syrian Kurds: Ways Out of the Civil War. (2017)

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personal data
SURNAME Ibrahim, Ferhad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kurdish political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Amude , Syria