Danaë C. Panissié, M.A.
Academic Coordinator CMEPS,
Research Fellow
Academic Background
2011 to 2014
M.A. “Peace Studies and International Politics” at Eberhard Karls University Tuebingen
M.A. thesis: “Sponsored Stability: Arab Foreign Aid to the Middle East. Exploring UAE aid activities to Egypt, Jordan and Yemen after 2011.”
2007 to 2010
B.A. in Political Science and Islamic Studies at theFriedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg
B.A. thesis “Al-Qaeda: A transnational and social terrorist movement in search of a new safe haven in Yemen” (in German)
Professional and regional experiences
2015 to 2016
Academic coordinator Joint MA CMEPS and research fellow in the Research Group Middle East and Comparative Politics, Professor Oliver Schlumberger
August 2015
Consultancy mission for the German Agency for Development Cooperation (GIZ), Kabul, Afghanistan
May 2015
Consultancy mission for the German Agency for Development Cooperation (GIZ) in celebration of "100 years German-Afghan Relations", Tübingen, Germany (with Oliver Schlumberger)
2012 to 2014
Student Research Assistant in the Research Group Middle East and Comparative Politics, Professor Oliver Schlumberger
2013
Internship at the German Embassy, Washington D.C., USA
Scholarship holder of the German Academic Exchange Services (DAAD)
2012
Internship at the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation, East-Jerusalem, Palestinian Territory
2011
Internship at the Orient-Institute Istanbul, Turkey
2010/11
Internship at the Orient-Institute Beirut, Lebanon
Scholarship holder of the German Academic Exchange Services (DAAD)
2010
Student trainee at Siemens AG, Erlangen
2009
Internship at the parliamentary group Buerger fuer Luebeck, Hansestadt Luebeck
2009
Language trip to Rabat, Morocco
2009
Arabic tutor at the Instituteof Oriental Philology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
2009
Internship at MP Gabriele Hiller-Ohm, Berlin
2008
Language and research trip to Damascus, Syria
Research Interests
Movements of Political Islam
Development cooperation with and in the MENA region
Economic and political reform in the MENA region
Country Expertise
Arab Gulf, Lebanon, Palestine, Egypt
Teaching
Comparative Politics of the Middle East (SoSe 2015)
Publications
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'A Friend for All'? Thoughts on Emirati Aid to the Middle East and Central Asia. in: al-Sharq, retrievable from here.
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Strengthening Statehood in Fragile Contexts. Building Afghan Institutions with Returning and Integrated Experts (with Oliver Schlumberger and Peer Gatter), German Agency for Development Cooperation (GIZ) 2016.
- "Jordan", in: International Handbook - Country overviews, Ravensburg: Munzinger Archiv, 2015. (in German)
- Islamist and Jihadi Actors in Partner Countries of the German Development Cooperation (with Oliver Schlumberger and Peer Gatter). German Agency for Development Cooperation (GIZ) 2013. Retrievable from here. (in German)
Academic Presentations
Oil for Power: Arab Official Development Assistance in the MENA region since 2011. Presentation in a junior scientist panel at the DAVO Congress, Cologne, September 27, 2014
Other Presentations
The Islamic State - An Introduction. Presentation organized by the Seniors' Academy Goldberg. Sindelfingen. February 15, 2016.
ISIS – Jihadi statebuilding. Two presentations organized by the church adult education service Schwäbisch Hall and Bad Mergentheim. Crailsheim and Weikersheim. October 07 and 08, 2015.
The Islamic State - A State without Borders. Presentation organized by the Student Association Akademische Verbindung Virtembergia. Tübingen, July 16, 2015.
Israel-Palestine: on the Israeli security discourse, Western caprice, and Arab apathy (in German). Two presentations organized by the church adult education service Kreis Schwaebisch Hall and Bad Mergentheim. Schwaebisch Hall and Laudenbach, March 25 and 26, 2015.
What do Petrodollars Buy? Regional Stability and Gulf Aid. (in German) Presentation organized by the student group Politics in the Middle East (PiVO). Tuebingen, October 28, 2014.
The Arab Spring and Political Islam. (in German) Presentation organized by the student association Akademische Verbindung Föhrberg. Tuebingen, June 4, 2013.
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict – An Introduction. (in German) Presentation organized by the Carlo-Schmid High School for their „Israel-Palestine Day”. Tuebingen, June 28, 2012.
Memberships
Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vorderer Orient (DAVO)
Middle East Studies Association (MESA)
Polis – German friends' association of Political Science in Tübingen