Kenan Engin

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Kenan Engin (* 1974 in Pertek , Turkey ) is a Kurdish political scientist , author and university lecturer who works in Germany .

Life

Engin emigrated from Turkey to Germany in 2000. He received his doctorate as a political scientist in the Department of International Relations at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . He previously studied at Istanbul University, Heidelberg University, University of London and Harvard University. Between 2009 and 2014 he worked as a lecturer / lecturer at the University of Heidelberg, Heilbronn University, Mainz University, FOM Universities in Bonn and Düsseldorf and the University of Applied Sciences Worms . 2014–2015 he taught as an Associate Professor at the Tomsk Polytechnic University in Russia. He is Professor of Social Work / Political Science at the Akkon University for Human Sciences in Berlin.

Focus of work

Since 1995 he has been writing in various newspapers and magazines. His articles, poems and essays were written in German, English and Turkish a. a. in Die Zeit, Focus Magazin, NZZ , The Jerusalem Post , Mannheimer Morgen, deutsche Jugend , Migration und Soziale Arbeit , Hurriyet Daily News and Economic Review , Journal of Turkish Weekly , Eurasisches Magazin , Neue Gesellschaft / Frankfurter Hefte , at the FES-Forum , Radical and published by Gündem and on numerous websites.

His focus is on conflict research , nation-building processes , migration and refugee movements in the Middle East, Turkey, Iraq and Kurdistan. In view of the Arab Spring, Kenan Engin speaks of a fifth wave of democratization based on Samuel P. Huntington's theory of democracy, referring to parallels to the third wave of democratization in Latin America during the 1970s and 1980s.

In addition, he is an expert on various questions and topics relating to flight, migration and integration. As such, he has given lectures at numerous institutions a.o. a. Universities, ministries, cities, political parties and media in and outside of Germany.

Fonts (selection)

• Kurdish migrants in Germany: Lifeworlds - Identity - Political Participation (Ed.), Kassel University Press, Kassel 2019, ISBN 978-3-7376-0648-6
• 'Nation-Building' - Theoretical Consideration and Case Study: Iraq. (Dissertation), Nomos, Baden-Baden 2013, ISBN 978-3-8487-0684-6 .
• Investigation into Conflict Management in Iraq: A Federalist Concept. (Research results), VDM, Saarbrücken 2010, ISBN 978-3-639-23766-5 .
• Ahmet Kaya: Unutulmaz Yılların Solcu Müzisyeni - German: The singer of the unforgettable years: Ahmet Kaya. (Biography), Peri Verlag, Istanbul 2002, ISBN 975-8245-71-6 .
• Ağlayın - German: wines. (Volume of essays), Peri Verlag, Istanbul 2006, ISBN 975-9010-52-6 .
• Yitik Zaman Metinleri - German: The texts of lost time . (Volume of essays), Peri Verlag, Istanbul 2002, ISBN 975-8245-57-0 .
• Kefilsiz Yaşamın Yolcuları - German: The hopeless wanderers. (Book of poems), Peri Verlag, Istanbul 2000, ISBN 975-8245-35-X .
• Meran. The Long Path of Hope , documentary, 2008 (director), film with the support of the Robert Bosch Stiftung a . a.

Web links

• Official website
• Literature by and about Kenan Engin in the catalog of the German National Library
• A generation on the run: An analysis of the situation of Syrian (refugee) children, in: deutsche jugend, 09/2016
• Waves of flight in and from Syria: Reasons, courses and effects, in: Eurasisches Magazin, 08/2016
• The role of the Kurds in Syria »conflict«, in: NG / Frankfurter Hefte, 04/2016
• Syria war. The important role of the Kurds , Kenan Engin in conversation with Nana Brink, at Deutschlandradio Kultur, August 16, 2016
• Turkish intervention in Northern Syria , in: NZZ, http://www.nzz.ch/meinung/kommentare/tuerkische-intervention-in-nordsyrien-hilfe-fuer-syrische-kurden-ld.113893
• Kenan Engin: Europeans, count on the Kurds in Syria! , in: FOCUS , September 10, 2016

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Commentary on the teaching program winter semester 2010/2011. (PDF; He currently teaches at Mainz University of Applied Sciences. 538 kB) (No longer available online.) Heidelberg University: Institute for Political Science, archived from the original on January 8, 2014 ; Retrieved August 1, 2011 . 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.  
3. ↑ Prof. Dr. rer. pole. Kenan Engin - Akkon Hochschule Berlin. Retrieved January 23, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Kenan Engin: Kurds: For a new German Kurdish policy . In: The time . December 27, 2016, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed December 28, 2016]).
5. ↑ A stony path. (No longer available online.) In: Eurasisches Magazin. July 5, 2011, archived from the original on August 9, 2011 ; Retrieved August 1, 2011 . 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.  
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7. ↑ The fifth wave of democratization in the Islamic-Arab region? In: Migrapolis Germany. April 27, 2011, accessed August 1, 2011 . 
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