Hamid Talebian

Doctoral Researcher

Hamid Talebian

  • Kurzer Lebenslauf

    • Since 03/2022: Research fellow at the GIGA Institute for Middle East Studies
    • Since 10/2022: Doctoral researcher at the GIGA Institute for Middle East Studies and University of Hamburg
    • 11/2021 - 12/2021: Consultant at the Norwegian Church Aid (NCA)
    • 03/2021 - 07/2021: Gender-based violence (GBV) advising assistant at the Norwegian Church Aid (NCA)
    • 2015-2018: Research fellow/coordinator at Iran Future Studies Research Institute 
    • Education: B.A. in Political Science, University of Tehran; MPhil in Global Development (specialization in Gender), University of Bergen

    Aktuelle Forschung

    • Iran's foreign policy towards Africa 
    • Transnational Shia politics and networks

    Länder und Regionen

    • Iran
    • African continent (external actors)

    Dissertation

    • Iran's Educational and Sectarian-Revolutionary Para-Statal Actors in Sub-Saharan Africa: Explaining the Islamic Republic of Iran's Articulation of its (Soft) Power

    Hamid Talebian

    Doctoral Researcher

    T. +49 40 42825-622[email protected]


    GIGA Focus Nahost | 6/2024

    Non-State Actors and Autocratic Public Diplomacy: A Transregional View

    „Public Diplomacy“ nimmt einen zentralen Stellenwert in den Außenpolitiken autoritärer Staaten ein. Dieser GIGA Focus Nahost untersucht die Rolle echter und vermeintlicher nichtstaatlicher Akteure in den iranischen, saudischen und türkischen Public Diplomacy-Strategien gegenüber Afrika.

    Asian Journal of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies | 2023

    The Evolvement of Iran–Israel’s Rivalry in the Red Sea and Eastern Africa

    This paper reviews the history of involvement of the two countries in these regions, and analyses how policies of confrontation in both countries have changed and developed over the different historical periods.

    GIGA Focus Global | 6/2022

    Bolstering the Bromances: Turkey’s and Iran’s Tightening Ties with Africa

    Der Krieg gegen die Ukraine eröffnet aufstrebenden Akteuren in Afrika die Möglichkeit, ihre Aktivitäten auf dem Kontinent zu verstärken. Dieser Fokus fragt, wie die sich wandelnden globalen Dynamiken, es dem Iran und der Türkei ermöglichen, ihre Beziehungen mit Afrika zu vertiefen.

    GIGA Focus Nahost | 6/2022

    Iran’s Uprisings: A Feminist Foreign Policy Approach

    Die Aufstände im Iran haben Konsequenzen für Staaten, welche eine feministische Außenpolitik betreiben. Für Deutschland bietet dies die Möglichkeit, das Potenzial seiner jüngsten Hinwendung zu einer neuen feministischen Außenpolitik aufzuzeigen.

    Forschungsprojekt | 01.03.2022 - 28.02.2025

    Explaining Middle-Power Engagement in External Regions: A Comparison of Iranian, Saudi, and Turkish Sub-Saharan Africa Policies

    By means of a comparative historical analysis of Iranian, Saudi-Arabian, and Turkish engagement in Africa following the continent’s decolonization processes and running up until 2020, this project seeks to make sense of middle-power engagement in external regions. First, the project will identify the periods of shifting IST engagement in Africa. Second, it will analyze the reasons why, and the conditions under which, IST have stepped up—or reduced—their foreign policy efforts in Africa. Third, it will develop mid-range generalizations on middle-power engagement in external regions.
    DFG, 2022-2025

    Le Monde Afrique | Interview | 09.01.2024

    Au Sahel, l’Iran en pleine offensive diplomatique

    Hamid Talebian explains that recent Iranian outreach to the Sahel is driven by building anti-Western alliances with countries that are increasingly moving away from the 'West'.

    Il Sole 24 Ore | Zitat | 01.11.2023

    Dalle armi al Sudan al Mar Rosso, così l’Iran di Raisi cerca di espandersi in Africa

    Hamid Talebian provides context for Iran's activities in the Horn of Africa and its consequences for Iran-Israel rivalries in the Red Sea and Eastern Africa.

    Workshop | 03.07.2024 - 05.07.2024

    Populist Rebordering: Geopolitical Imagination in Turkey's Africa Policy under the AKP

    EWIS 2024: The 11th European Workshops in International Studies (EISA), Istanbul Organisation: European International Studies Association Mira Demirdirek (Vortragende:r), Hamid Talebian (Vortragende:r)

    Paper presented in the workshop "Populist Geopolitics? Rethinking (Geo)Political Space through the Lens of Populism"

    Lehre | Centrum für Nah- und Mittelost-Studien, Philipps-Universität Marburg | 2024

    Middle Eastern Powers and their Foreign Policies towards Africa

    Centrum für Nah- und Mittelost-Studien, Philipps-Universität Marburg Marburg Deutschland

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