Ilyas Saliba
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Executive Summary

A Political Science PhD researcher, human rights defender, political analyst and advisor with consulting, advocacy, teaching, research, editing and communication experience gained through employments & projects at respected organizations & universities, such as Amnesty International, the GPPi, the Green Party in the German Bundestag, the IFSH, the SWP, the CSS, the WZB, the University of Hamburg, the Free University Berlin, Oxford University, the Humboldt University, the European University Institute & the ETH Zürich. Focussing on Human Rights in the MENA Region, Democratization & Authoritarian Regimes & Political Violence.

Experience

GPPi - Global Public Policy Institute 
Research Associate working on Human Rights and Democracy 
Contributing to the GPPi's project on measuring academic freedom

Amnesty International
Middle East Desk Coordinator
Monitoring Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa and advocating for a more just, equal, free and inclusive politics and societies. 

WZB - Social Science Research Center Berlin
Research Fellow in the research unit on Democracy & Democratization
Working on authoritarianism with a particular focus on the MENA Region and the Arab Uprisings and the diffusion of authoritarian resilience
Communications Officer in the research unit on Democracy & Democratization

Managing the WZB Democracy Blog and the Social media profiles of the unit and producing the WZB Democracy Podcast 

Humboldt University - Department for Social Sciences
Teaching the introductory seminar in political theory and the history of political thought for undergrad students enrolled in the BA in social sciences

CSS - Center for Security Studies, Zürich
Research Assistant (internship & employment)
Worked with the research group for risk & resilience on Security in the Public Sphere

CIS - Center for Comparative & International Studies, Zürich
Research Assistant at the chair for European Politics of Prof Schimmelfennig
Working on the project: “Differentiated Integration in the EU”

Teaching Assistant at the chair for Political Violence of Prof Lars-Erik Cederman
Tutorial held for the Swiss army officers course: “Conflict Research 2 – Contemporary Conflicts”     

SWP - German Institute for International & Security Affairs, Berlin
Research Assistant (internship) – Worked with the research division for international security

IFSH - Institute for Peace Research & Security Policy, Hamburg
Research Assistant (internship & employment) at the Centre for European Peace & Security Studies
Worked on the research project: “PiraT” on maritime security & terrorism

Institute for Political Science at the Universität Hamburg
Teaching Assistant at the chair for Political Science Methodology of Prof Kai-Uwe Schnapp
Tutorial held for the second semester course: “Introduction to social science methods”

Research Assistant at the chair for Global Governance of Prof Antje Wiener
Worked on the research project: “Dialogue & Diversity in Diplomatic Interaction”

Education & Research

Berlin Graduate School for Social Sciences (BGSS) at the Humboldt University
PhD Candidate 
Dissertation working title: 
Perceptions & Sequence in decision-making. The effect of spreading protests on calcu- lations of authoritarian regimes. 

European University Institute (EUI)
Programm Associate in the Europe in the World programm at the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies
Visiting researcher at the Dept of Political Science
Supervised by Donatella Della Porta, Ulrich Krotz and Philip Schmitter

Oxford University
Guest Researcher at Nuffield College
Sponsor Laurence Whitehead

American University in Cairo (AUC)
Guest Researcher at the American University in Cairo, Department for Political Science
Supervised by Kevin Köhler

Ecole de Gouvernance et d'Economie de Rabat (EGE)
Guest Researcher at the EGE Rabat, Centre de Recherche Economie Société Culture (CRESC)

ETH Zürich & University of Zürich
MA in International and Comparative Studies
MA Thesis: Explaining autocratic resilience in moments of contestation: Trajectories in Morocco.

Free University Berlin
MA level exchange student in Political Science at the Otto-Suhr Institute

University of Hamburg
BA in Political Science
BA Thesis: The EU Foreign Policy towards Libya

University of Gothenburg
BA level exchange student in Politial Science with the ERASMUS programm 

Scholarships
Three year PhD scholarship by the German National Academic Foundation
Promotionsstipendium der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

APSA MENA Fieldwork grant for a joint paper project on the religious legitimacy of the Moroccan monarchy with Yasmina 
Abouzzohour July 2017

Trajectories of Change Fellow - Scholarship for Fieldwork related to the dissertation in Egypt, Morocco and Yemen. The Scholarship programm is funded by the Bucerius Zeit foundation. 

DAAD conference scholarship for doctoral students for participation at the American Political Association yearly conference in San Francisco in September 2015

APSA graduate student scholarship  for doctoral students for participation at the American Political Association yearly conference in San Francisco in September 2015

DAAD scholarship for a week long workshop on the Tunisian constitution hosted by the University of Tübingen and the university of Tunis in Tunisia

Studienkolleg zu Berlin scholarship and leadership programm of the German Academic Council and the Hertie foundation

Santander Scholarship for the IARU Summerschool programme in Copenhagen

STIP out scholarship for outgoing students of University of Hamburg


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