Ahmed Elsayed
Ahmed Elsayed
UNICOM, Mary-Somerville-Straße 7 (Haus Wien)
Raum: 7.2150
Tel.: +49 421 218-67478
Ahmed Elsayed is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS) at the University of Bremen. He currently works within the Project Group "Social Policy and Rural Development in Africa" in the CRC 1342 "Global Dynamics of Social Policy". He assumed various research roles at different research institutions, think tanks, and human rights organisations in Cairo, Berlin, and Washington D.C. His research foci are legitimacy, power, armed groups, democratisation, human rights, extremism and conflict transformation in the Middle East.
Ahmed Elsayed war Mitglied des von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) geförderten Forschungsprojekts "Legitimitätspolitik bewaffneter Gruppen", das von Dr. Stephan Hensell und Prof. Klaus Schlichte geleitet wird. Zuvor nahm Ahmed Elsayed an dem von der Deutschen Stiftung Friedensforschung (DSF) geförderten Forschungsprojekt "Salafistische Dschihadistengruppen - (De)Eskalationspfade und Dialogoptionen" der Berghof Foundation teil.
2025
Elsayed, Ahmed. (forthcoming). Recognition on Their Own Terms? The Paradox of the Taliban’s Quest for International Legitimacy, in Armed Groups and the Politics of International Legitimation, edited by Stephan Hensell and Klaus Schlichte, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2024
Elsayed, Ahmed. 2024: Beliefs and International Legitimacy: The Janus Face of the Taliban’s Political Worldview and Value Rationality. InIIS Working Paper Nr. 45/2024. Bremen: InIIS.
2023
Elsayed, Ahmed, 2023: From the Mountains to the Élysée: The Precarious International Legitimacy of the Syrian Kurdish YPG and PYD. In: The Middle East Journal 77 (1), 53-77.
2019
Göldner-Ebenthal, Karin; Elsayed, Ahmed, 2019: Salafi jihadi armed groups and conflict (de-)escalation: The case of Ahrar al-Sham in Syria/2019, Berghof Foundation.
Elsayed, Ahmed, 2019: Boboev v. Tajikistan. Headnote report, Oxford Public International Law.
Elsayed, Ahmed, 2019: The battle over the memory of Egypt’s revolution, Open Democracy.
Elsayed, Ahmed, 2019: Bernie Sanders w al-Qadeyya al-Filastiniyah’ (Bernie Sanders and the Palestinian Cause), Al Jumhuriya.
2018
Elsayed, Ahmed, 2018: Egypt’s Social Welfare: A Lifeline for the People or the Ruling Regime?, in: E-International Relations, 23.07.2018.
2016
Elsayed, Ahmed, 2016: The Moment the Revolution Broke Down in Tears, Open Democracy.
2015
Elsayed, Ahmed, 2015: The Dilemma of Middle Eastern Democracy, in: E-International Relations, 04.10.2015.
Elsayed, Ahmed, 2015: The Eclipse of Pan-Arab Nationalism, in: E-International Relations, 25.05.2015.