Alexander Weissenburger, MA MLitt alexander.weissenburger@oeaw.ac.at + 43 1 51581-6485 EDUCATION Since Oct. 2016 Sept. 2014 Aug. 2015 Austrian Academy of Sciences Doctoral researcher in the field of Islamic Studies, focus on the ideology of the Huthi movement in Yemen. University of St Andrews MLitt Middle East, Caucasus and Central Asian Security Studies, with distinction Oct. 2012-October 2017 Oct. 2011 Sept. 2012 July Aug. 2010 Oct. 2008 Aug. 2011 University of Vienna MA in Islamic studies, with distinction Arabic courses in Cairo, Egypt University of Damascus, Syria, Arabic courses University of Vienna, Bachelor s degree in Middle Eastern Studies TEACHING AND OTHER RELEVANT ACITVITIES Summer term 2019 Summer term 2017 April - Mai 2016 Feb. - July 2016 Lecturer University of Vienna, Department of Oriental Studies, MA-Seminar: The Arab World: Security and Political Perspectives. Arabic Lecturer at University of Vienna, Department of Oriental Studies Arabic teacher, Adult Education Centre Urania, Vienna Research intern, Austrian Institute for International Politics, working with Dr Cengiz Günay 1/4
2014 Performance scholarship of the University of Vienna Summer term 2014 Arabic tutor at the Department of Oriental Studies at the University of Vienna July 2011 July 2013 Student representative, Department of Oriental Studies June 2006 Summer academy of the state of Lower Austria for highly gifted students LANGUAGE SKILLS German Mother tongue English Full professional proficiency Arabic (Classical Arabic) Professional working proficiency French Elementary proficiency PUBLICATIONS Articles: Patterns of Migration in, from and to Yemen : Refugee Outreach and Research Network, (RORn), Vienna, November 2018, http://www.ror-n.org. 'Vague and Flexible: Explaining the Houthi Movement s Resilience', Italian Insitute for International Studies (ISPI), March 2018, https://www.ispionline.it/en/pubblicazione/vague-and-flexible-explaining-houthimovements-resilience-19928. Die Yeziden, in Kulturelle Schnittstelle Mesopotamien, Anatolien, Kurdistan. Geschichte. Sprachen. Gegenwart, edited by Lea Müller-Funk et al., Vienna: Self-published by Department of Oriental Studies of the University of Vienna, 2014. Das Königreich Himyar, in Unterwegs in Saudi Arabien: Historische, Gesellschaftliche und Kulturwissenschaftliche Hintergründe, edited by Stephan Procházka, Vienna: Selfpublished by Department of Oriental Studies of the University of Vienna, 2015. 2/5
Encyclopaedia Entries: -'Salafism', Conflict in the Modern Middle East: An Encyclopedia of Civil War, Revolutions, and Regime Change, ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara (CA), forthcoming. -'The Huthis', Conflict in the Modern Middle East: An Encyclopedia of Civil War, Revolutions, and Regime Change, ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara (CA), forthcoming. -'Zaydism', Conflict in the Modern Middle East: An Encyclopedia of Civil War, Revolutions, and Regime Change, ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara (CA), forthcoming. Reviews: - al-salafiyya fi-l-yaman: Madarisha al-fikriyya wa-marj iyyat al- Aqa idiyya wa-tahalufatha al- Siyasiyya, review of the book by Ahmad Muhammad al-daghshi, Chroniques du Manuscrit au Yemen, forthcoming. -'Leben für die Forschung. Das Ethnologenehepaar Wilhelm und Marie Hein in Südarabien (1901-1902)', review of the book by Gertraud Sturm, Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes (WZKM), 108, 2018. -'Southwest Arabia across History. Essays to the memory of Walter Dostal', review of the book edited by Andre Gingrich and Siegfried Haas, Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes (WZKM), 108, 2018. -'The Land Between', review of the documentary movie by David Fedele, Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia (ACME), 4/2, 2018. Conference and Workshop Contributions: -'The Massacre at Wadi Tanuma: Collective Memory and its use in Huthi Narratives': paper presented at World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), Seville, July 17, 2018. -'Conjuring up a Twelver Shi ite Huthi Imam: Anti-Huthi Propaganda and the Narrative of the Sunni-Shia Conflict': paper presented at British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) Conference, London, June 25, 2018. 3/5
-Panel Chair: 'Panel Session 4, C- Shī`ism III: Imagined Pasts' at British Association of Islamic Studies (BRAIS) Conference, Exeter, April 10, 2018. -'Framing the Huthi Movement as Twelver Shi ites: Aspects of anti-huthi Propaganda on the Internet': paper presentated at British Association of Islamic Studies (BRAIS) Conference, Exeter, April 10, 2018. - The Role of Tribes in Huthi Framing : paper presented at Workshop Yemen s Living Heritage: Tribes and Tribalism into the 21st Century, Vienna, Institute for Social Anthropology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, February 15, 2018. - Pan-Islamism and the Concept of the Umma in the Lectures of Husayn al-huthi : paper presented at Peace and Conflict Studies in Anthropology (PACSA) Conference, Amsterdam, August 30, 2017. - Death to America, Death to Israel, Damn the Jews, Victory to Islam : the Huthi Movement s Framing of Localised Grievances in Terms of International Politics, paper presented at British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) Conference, Edinburgh, July 7, 2017. Invited Conference and Workshop Contributions - Der Konflikt im Jemen: Ideologische Aspekte und Hintergründe : presentation given for lecture Series Jour Fixe Nahost Aktuell, Vienna, Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, December 3, 2018. - Religious Authority in a Tribal Society: The Idea of the Rule for the Ahl al-bayt between Religious Ideal and Political Reality : paper presented at Uses of the Past in Islamic Law (USPPIP), Exeter, September 29, 2018. - Syria, Libya and Yemen, the Mena Crises Outcome. Towards Rome 2018 : Roundtable discussion Mediterranean Dialogue (MED), Moscow, September 18, 2018. Media Appearances -Kurier: Der vergessene Krieg, Dezember 2018. -Ö1 Journal-Panorama: Jemen - der blinde Fleck, 19.12.2018. 4/5
-The Independent: Yemen war: Who are the Houthis and why is Saudi Arabia fighting them?, November 10, 2018 5/5