Peter Wien
Teaching and Research Experience
Since September 2003: Assistant Professor for Modern Middle
Eastern History and
World History at al-Akhawayn-University in Ifrane, Morocco
2001-2003: Junior Research Fellow at the Zentrum Moderner
Orient (Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, ZMO) in Berlin, Germany
Project: "Personal Experience and Discourse – Arab Contemporary
Contacts with National Socialism, 1933-1945. Inquiring into a
Memory Culture.”
1997-1998: Internships at the University of Aleppo, German
Language Centre, supervised by the Lecturer of the DAAD, and in
the library of the Orient Institute of the Deutsche Morgenländische
Gesellschaft (German Oriental Society, DMG) in Beirut
Education
1999-2003: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität
Bonn
Ph.D.-student in Islamic Studies, History and Semitic Studies
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Wild
Thesis on "Discipline and Sacrifice: Authoritarian, Totalitarian
and pro-Fascist Inclinations in Iraqi Arab Nationalism, 1932-1941,”
submitted in August 2003
1999-2000: St Antony’s College of Oxford University
– Middle East Centre
Master of Studies in Modern Middle Eastern Studies
1993-1999: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Magister Artium in Modern and Medieval History and Semitic Studies
Publications and Presentations
- "Al-Akhawayn University: Elitenformation im Mittleren
Atlas,” Orient 44.4 (2003): 601-606.
- "Fremde Herrschaft im Zweistromland,” Tages-Anzeiger,
July 4, 2003: 2.
- "Teilen und Herrschen: Politische Kultur in der irakischen
Geschichte," Neue Zürcher Zeitung, May 20, 2003.
- "Disciplining the Youth: A Gendered Perspective on the
Iraqi Youth Organization in the 1930s,” paper presented
to the workshop Constructing Youth in the Mediterranean Societies,
European University Institute, Florence 2003, forthcoming in
French as a publication of the Centre d'Etudes et de Documentation
Economiques, Juridiques et Sociales (Cedej), Cairo.
- "Der Irak und Nazideutschland: Eine historische Episode,”
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, March 14, 2003: 34.
- "Dreigeteiltes Zweistromland: Die Geschichte des Iraks,”
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, February 15, 2003: 33.
- "‘Watan’ and ‘Rujula’: The Emergence
of a New Model of Youth in Iraq of the 1930s,” paper presented
to the conference Youth and Youth Culture in the Contemporary
Middle East, Damascus 2002, forthcoming in a conference volume.
- "The Representation of Germany in Iraqi Press 1933-1941,”
paper presented to the panel Struggling With the Nation: Intellectual,
Cultural and Ideological Currents in Iraq During the Interwar
Period, MESA conference, Washington D.C. 2002.
- "Arab Nationalists, Nazi-Germany and the Holocaust: An
Unlucky Contemporaneity,” in Der Völkermord an den
Armeniern und die Shoah / The Armenian Genocide and the Shoah,
ed. Hans-Lukas Kieser and Dominik J. Schaller (Zürich:
Chronos, 2002), 599-614.
- "Generations in Conflict: Pro-Totalitarian Tendencies
of the "Young Effendiyya” in Iraq, 1933-41. Rufa’il
Butti – Yunis as-Sab‘awi,” paper presented to
the workshop Arab Encounters With National Socialism, Berlin
2002, forthcoming in a conference volume.
- "Irak 1941: Der Kailani-Putsch," INAMO 27 (2001):
46-47.
- "'Sherifian' Officers in Interwar Iraq and 'Germanophilia'.
A Heritage of the German-Ottoman Military Partnership? The Case
of Ja‘far al-‘Askari,” paper presented to the
conference The First World War as Remembered in the Countries
of the Eastern Mediterranean, Beirut 2001, forthcoming in a
conference volume.
- "Zwischen Ignoranz, Ehrgeiz und falschen Erwartungen.
Deutschland und der Arabische Osten in den dreißiger Jahren,”
Palästina Journal 38-39 (1999): 9-11.
Reviews
- Christoph Schumann: Radikalnationalismus in Syrien und Libanon:
Politische Sozialisation und Elitenbildung 1930-1958 (Hamburg:
Deutsches Orient-Institut, 2001) in DAVO-Nachrichten 17 (August
2003): 117-118.
- Henner Fürtig: Kleine Geschichte des Irak: Von der Gründung
1921 bis zur Gegenwart (München: C. H. Beck, 2003), in
Die Zeit, 08.05.2003.
- Nelida Fuccaro: The Other Kurds: Yazidis in Colonial Iraq
(London, New York: I.B. Tauris, 1999) in Arab Studies Journal
X.2-XI.1 (2002-2003): 191-194.
- Dalal Arsuzi-Elamir: Arabischer Nationalismus in Syrien:
Zaki al-Arsuzi und die arabisch-nationale Bewegung an der Peripherie
Alexandretta/Antakya 1930-1938 (Münster, Hamburg, London:
LIT Verlag, 2003), forthcoming in International Journal of Middle
East Studies.
- Toby Dodge: Inventing Iraq: The Failure of Nation Building
and a History Denied (London: Hurst, 2003), forthcoming in Die
Welt des Islams.
- Ala Bashir, Lars Sigurd Sunnanå: Im Namen des Terrors:
Saddams Leibarzt erzählt (Berlin: List, 2004), forthcoming
in Die Zeit.
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