Houssein Al Malla

Since 01/2025: Senior Research Fellow at the Lebanese American University, Institute for Social Justice and Conflict Resolution (ISJCR) and Institute for Migration Studies (IMS) in the research project: "International Interventions in Lebanon", funded by the Carnegie Center. 

03/2013 - 06/2023: Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute of African Affairs in the research project: "The monopoly on the use of force and paradoxes of security – discrepancies between objective and subjective security in the Central African Republic and Lebanon"

Since 01/2023: Representative of Doctoral Researchers at the GIGA Doctoral Program.

Since 10/2022: Doctoral Researcher at the GIGA Doctoral Program. Provisionary Dissertation Title: Personality and Foreign Policy: The Role of Political Psychology in Accounting for the Outcomes of International Sanctions.

08/2022 - 09/2022: Student Research Assistant at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (Regional Research Center Transformations of Political Violence (TraCe)).

10/2021 - 09/2022: Student Research Assistant at the Peace Research Institute, Frankfurt (Research Group on Terrorism).

11/2021 - 03/2022: Graduate Teaching Assistant at the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy at the University of Erfurt (Public Administration and Finance Module).

11/2021 - 09/2022: Editorial Assistant for the Africa Spectrum Journal.

Since 08/2021: Student Assistant at the Rule of Law Programme, Middle East and North Africa, of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung.

08/2021 - 08/2022: Student Research Assistant at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (Project: The Termination of International Sanctions: Causes, Processes, and Domestic Consequences).

2020 - 2022: Masters of Public Policy (MPP) from the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy at the University of Erfurt, Germany (recipient of the Dietmar Herz Award and the Director's Certificate of Merit for Outstanding Academic Achievement). DAAD Helmut Schmidt Scholar for Public Policy and Good Governance.

2018: Visiting Student at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, (Sciences Po), Paris.

2016 - 2019: Bachelor's degree in Political Science / International Affairs with a minor in Conflict Analysis and Resolution (with Honors) from the Lebanese American University, Beirut. 

International Sanctions

Foreign Policy Analysis

Political Psychology

Leadership Trait Analysis

International Security

Sub-Saharan Africa

Middle East and North Africa (MENA) 

Lebanon

Iran