Institute of Political Science

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

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