Ahmed Maati M.A.
Contact Information
Melanchthonstr. 36
72074 Tübingen, Germany
Room 118
Phone: 07071/ 29-78368
mailto: ahmed.maati(at)uni-tuebingen.de
Research Associate
Office Hours
Office hours by appointment
Academic Background
Ahmed Maati has been affiliated with the department of political science in Tübingen since 2012; he worked for the joint research group “Arab Youth: From Engagement to Inclusion” at our partner institution: the American university in Cairo. He has offered both M.A and B.A level courses on political Islam and comparative politics in the MENA. Ahmed Maati is since August 2017 a Research Associate of Professor Schlumberger at the chair of “Middle East and Comparative Politics”. He concluded his M.A. degree in Comparative and Middle East Politics and Society (CMEPS) in 2015 with a research focus on identity conflicts, statehood, and democratization. His M.A. thesis is titled “State identity, democratization, and the democratic deficit in the Muslim world”.
Research Interests
Religion and politics
Statehood and regimes
Identity conflicts and authoritarianism
Teaching
Scrutinizing the State (Winter term 2020/2021)
Introduction to Comparative Politics: Middle East and North Africa (Winter term 2019/2020)
Scrutinizing the State (Summer term 2019)
Comparative Politics from a practitioner's perspective (Winter term 2018/2019)
Political Islam (Summer term 2018)
Co-teaching CMEPS: Comparative Politics of the Middle East (Summer term 2018)
Comparative Politics from a practitioner's perspective (Winter term 2017/2018)
Research in Political Science: Ethics and Methods CMEPS & MAFIP (Winter term 2017/18)
Political Islam (Summer term 2017)
Introduction to Comparative Politics: Middle East and North Africa (Winter term 2016/17)
Islam and Democracy (Summer term 2016)
Conferences
October 2019
25. International Congress of DAVO, Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vorderer Orient, Hamburg, Germany, Panel: Digital Authoritarianism: Tools and Types of Authoritarian Rule in the Digital Age. Role: Presenter and Chair. Paper: “They are always watching you”: The Relevance of Surveillance Technology to the Study of Authoritarianism
October 2018
25. International Congress of DAVO, Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vorderer Orient, Frankfurt, Germany, Panel: Re-Examining the State in the Middle East. Role: Presenter and panel convener. Paper: Reconceptualizing the Representation Function of the State: The Impact of State Identity on Regime Type
July 2018
World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies, WOCMES, Seville, Spain, Panel: Changes in the Field of Middle East Studies. Role: Presenter. Paper: State identity, factionalism, and regime type: Re-conceptualizing social cohesion
March 2017
Unlike Twins?! Comparing Democracies and Autocracies: Insights, Developments and Challenges in Comparative Politics, Deutsche Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft, Tübingen, Germany, Doppelpanel: Dimensions of Authoritarianism. Role: Panel convener and presenter. Paper: Exclusivist Identity Formation, the State, and Authoritarianism
October 2016
23. International Congress of DAVO, Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vorderer Orient, Tübingen, Germany, Panel: Visions of the State in the MENA Region. Role: Discussant.
July 2016
24th World Congress of Political Science, International Political Science Association, Poznan, Poland, Panel: Inequality Let’s Count the Ways. Role: Discussant.
July 2016
24th World Congress of Political Science , International Political Science Association, Poznan, Poland, Panel: Multiculturalism and its Critics. Role: Presenter. Paper: Diversity, Cohesion, and Democracy: State Identity and A Call for the Reconceptualization of Cohesion
April 2016
3rd European Workshop in International Relations, EWIS, Tübingen, Deutschland, Panel: The Politics of Otherness: The Identity/Alterity Nexus in International Relations. Role: Presenter. Paper: State Identity and Foreign Policy: Explaining Shifts in Egyptian Foreign Politics
Publications
Maati, Ahmed & Žilvinas Švedkauskas (2020), 'Covid-19 and the future of digital surveillance state', in: Czech Journal of International Relations, Vol. 55., Nr. 4, pp. 48-71. - co-authored: 60 percent of the workload
Maati, Ahmed (2015), 'State identity, democratization, and the democratic deficit in the Muslim world', M.A Thesis, DAR, The American University in Cairo, Library of the Political Science Department.
Maati, Ahmed (2014), 'OPEC in light of GCC-US partnership', Khamasin Political Science Journal, The American University in Cairo.
Professional Background
2012-2013
Research assistant and field researcher at the American University in Cairo for the international research project “Arab Youth – From Engagement to Inclusion?” (funded by VolkswagenStiftung).