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EU – Middle East Forum
(EUMEF)
Transforming to Where?
The Cases of Egypt and Tunisia
16th DGAP International Summer School
26 August–7 September 2012, Berlin
Conference Brochure
16th DGAP International Summer School
»Transforming to Where?
The Cases of Egypt and Tunisia«
26 August–7 September 2012, Berlin
In cooperation with
German Council on Foreign Relations
EU – Middle East Forum (EUMEF)
Berlin 2012
Partners
Established in 1964, the Robert Bosch Stiftung GmbH is one of the
major German foundations associated with a private company. It represents the philanthropic and social endeavors of Robert Bosch (1861–
1942) and fulfills his legacy in a contemporary manner. The Robert
Bosch Stiftung works predominantly in the fields of International Relations, Health, and Education. The EU-Middle East Forum, as well as
its predecessors, the International Forum on Strategic Thinking (IFST)
and the Forum European Foreign and Security Policy, have been realized in close cooperation between DGAP and Robert Bosch Stiftung.
The Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, ifa) is an organization operating worldwide to promote intercultural exchange and dialogue between civil societies. With funds from
the German Federal Foreign Office, ifa supports with its zivik Funding
Programme projects of German, international, and/or local non-governmental organizations to support the transformation of the affected
Arab countries from autocratic models to functioning democratic systems reigned by the rule of law and a constructive conflict culture.
Table of Contents
German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)
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EU-Middle East Forum (EUMEF)
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EUMEF-Team
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The 16th DGAP International Summer School
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Dina Fakoussa-Behrens (GERMANY)
Christian Achrainer (GERMANY)
Anja Runge (GERMANY)
Manuela Hager (GERMANY)
Concept Note
Agenda
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Working Group Instructions – Debating
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Speakers (in order of appearance in the agenda)
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Communication Trainers
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Facilitators
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Paul Freiherr von Maltzahn (GERMANY)
Christian Hänel (GERMANY)
Peter Mares (GERMANY)
Marina Ottaway (USA)
Eberhard Sandschneider (GERMANY)
Paul Nolte (GERMANY)
Tariq Ramadan (UK)
Ahmed Driss (TUNISIA)
Hamed Abdel Samad (GERMANY)
Ibrahim Saif (LEBANON)
Mustafa K. Al-Sayyid (EGYPT)
Janusz Onyszkiewicz (POLAND)
Amine Ghali (TUNISIA)
Hüseyin Bağcı (TURKEY)
Jonathan Levack (TURKEY)
Volker Perthes (GERMANY)
Hans-Werner Wiermann (GERMANY)
Klaus Loetzer (TUNISIA)
Aurel Croissant (GERMANY)
Clemens Lechner (GERMANY)
Dominic Hildebrand (GERMANY)
Christoph Krakowiak (GERMANY)
Almut Möller (GERMANY)
Hoda Salah (GERMANY)
Inken Wiese (GERMANY)
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Participants (in alphabetical order)
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Information and Logistics
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Directions
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Berlin City Guide
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Ahmed Mahmoud Mohamed Abolwafa Abdelgaffar (EGYPT)
Nadim Abillama (FRANCE)
Meryem Akabouch (MOROCCO)
Nazife Al (TURKEY)
Abdelrahman Ayyash (EGYPT)
Amina Barketallah (TUNISIA)
Naoual Belakhdar (GERMANY)
Wissem Boudriga (TUNISIA)
Muttalip Çağlayan (TURKEY)
Ouiem Chettaoui (TUNISIA)
Damla Cihangir (TURKEY)
Eugenio Dacrema (ITALY)
Naiera Ellethy (EGYPT)
Sarah Elliott (UK)
AbdElGhany ElSokary (EGYPT)
Mohamed Ramzy Ghannouchi (TUNISIA)
Emma Ghariani (FRANCE)
Myriam Guetat (TUNISIA)
Abderrahim Guzrou (MOROCCO)
Imane Helmy (EGYPT)
Rozan Ibrahim (EGYPT)
Emna Jebri (TUNISIA)
Elif Kalaycıoğlu (TURKEY)
Ute Kohler (GERMANY)
Shaimaa Magued (EGYPT)
Miguel Mateos Muñoz (SPAIN)
Markus Mayr (GERMANY)
Regine Schwab (GERMANY)
Mickaël Vogel (FRANCE)
Marwa Wasfy (EGYPT)
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German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)
The German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) is Germany’s network for foreign
policy. As an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit membership organization,
think tank, and publisher DGAP has been promoting public debate on foreign policy
in Germany for over 50 years. More than 2.000 members – among them renowned
representatives from politics, business, academia, and the media – as well as more
than 70 companies and foundations support the work of DGAP. DGAP’s goals are to
promote and contribute to foreign policy debates in Germany, to advise decision
makers from politics, business, and civil society, and to inform the public on foreign
policy questions and issues. DGAP comprises the think tank, the journal IP, the
library and documentation center, the platform Young DGAP, and the web portal
www.aussenpolitik.net.
DGAP’s think tank works at the junction between politics, the economy, and
academia. Its work is interdisciplinary, policy-oriented, and covers different areas of
German foreign policy, which is dynamic due to a globalized and rapidly changing
world. The work encompasses research and publications, high-profile conferences and
meetings as well as programs for the advancement of Young Professionals.
The journal Internationale Politik (IP) appears in German as a bimonthly print magazine
and in English as an online magazine on German and European foreign policy. IP
Journal offers German perspectives on important foreign affairs issues as well as indepth analyses on central questions of German and European foreign policy by
renowned authors and experts in and outside of Germany.
The DGAP Library and Documentation Center (BiDok) is one of the oldest and most
significant specialized libraries in Germany that is open to the public. It holds
substantial collections on German foreign and security policy.
The Young DGAP is a new initiative for members of DGAP under the age of 35. The
Young DGAP aims at encouraging more young people to take an active interest in
foreign and security policy through innovative events such as controversial debates
and discussions with renowned decision-makers.
The web page www.aussenpolitik.net is DGAP’s thematic web-portal. It provides wellgrounded background information and analyses about the research institute’s current
work. It thereby contributes to the professional and public debates about international
politics.
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EU-Middle East Forum (EUMEF)
The EU-Middle East Forum (EUMEF) is one of the core programs for the
advancement of young academics and professionals at DGAP. The forum
conceptualizes and organizes dialogue and learning conferences, providing a platform
for young experts from European and Middle Eastern states to exchange ideas, to
debate, to jointly develop solutions to security and developmental challenges, to
promote a better understanding and trust between different participants, and to build
up a network of high caliber future actors and decision makers. The underlying idea is
that security and developmental challenges cannot be tackled by single nation states,
but require international dialogue and cooperation. EUMEF is carried out in
cooperation with its long-standing partner the Robert Bosch Stiftung, the German
Federal Foreign Office, and the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa). The
program’s predecessors, the International Forum on Strategic Thinking (IFST) and
the Forum European Foreign and Security Policy, were also realized in close
cooperation with the Robert Bosch Stiftung.
1. Topics
EUMEF mainly works on soft security issues such as democratization, human rights,
climate change, and migration. In 2012, EUMEF focuses on chances and challenges
associated with the current transformation processes in Egypt and Tunisia, and EU
and German politics towards these developments.
2. Participants
Participants of EUMEF’s different conference formats come from the North-African
countries Egypt, Tunisia, and Morocco, from Turkey, and from Germany, France,
Italy, Greece, Spain, and the United Kingdom. EUMEF targets students and young
professionals from academia, politics, civil society, the media, and the corporate
sector. Participants are recommended by a network of experts available to the forum.
3. Conference Formats
EUMEF organizes three consecutive but different conference formats. The threepronged approach enables EUMEF to bring together future leaders at different stages
of their career and to realize a sustainable network.
International Summer School (ISS)
For two weeks in summer in Berlin, the ISS gathers 30 highly qualified students or
recent graduates (with 1–2 years of work experience). The focus lies on studies related
to the fields of Political Science, Economics, Law, and Media and Communication
Science. Besides lectures and speeches by international renowned experts, discussions,
working groups, and training workshops on different aspects and angles of the
transformations in Egypt and Tunisia, open inter-cultural dialogue and social activities
are part of the program.
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New Faces Conference (NFC)
The NFC brings together 20 young professionals from academia, politics, civil society,
the media, and the corporate sector. EUMEF organizes two to three NFCs per year,
mainly in cooperation with different partner institutions in Turkey, Egypt, Morocco
or Tunisia. In 2012, EUMEF is cooperating with the American University in Cairo
and the Freie Universität Berlin Cairo Office. Each NFC focuses on and deepens a
specific aspect of the summer school’s main subject. The NFC provides a forum to
intensively discuss these issues with like-minded peers and senior experts. At the same
time the conference enables participants to expand their network and to initiate joint
projects.
Alumni Conference
Biennially EUMEF invites all former ISS and NFC participants to reconvene in Berlin
for three days. The Alumni Conference allows for a strengthening of the network and
an exchange among the alumni. Subjects addressed are derived from up-to-date
security challenges and topics of the former conferences and summer schools.
Participants also get the chance to present initiatives and projects and to explore
cooperation channels with other alumni. The next Alumni Conference is scheduled
for November 2012.
4. Objectives
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Reflection and analysis of security challenges and the sensitization for effective
solutions and policies on a national and EU level
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Exchange of know-how and experiences
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Promotion of an intercultural dialogue to increase understanding and trust
between young potential policy makers from Arab countries, the EU, and Turkey
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Promotion of a pluralistic, tolerant, and respectful debating environment
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Establishing a network of high calibre future actors from North Africa, the EU,
and Turkey
5. Team
Head of Program: Dina Fakoussa-Behrens [email protected]
Program Officer: Christian Achrainer [email protected]
Program Assistant: Anja Runge [email protected]
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EUMEF – Team
Dina Fakoussa-Behrens (GERMANY)
Dina Fakoussa took up the post as Head of the EUMiddle East Forum in March 2011. She had been working
for seven years as Project and Program Manager in
international development cooperation targeting the Arab
region. She was among others Project Manager at the
German NGO Media in Cooperation and Transition
gGmbH in Jordan, where she conceptualized and realized
publications, workshops, and online projects on politics,
media, and culture in Iraq and the region. Her last
position abroad was at the German Heinrich Böll Stiftung
– The Political Green Foundation in Lebanon, where she
worked for two years as Program Manager. She was in
charge of concept development and organization of international conferences and
workshops on democratization, human and women rights, conflict resolution, and
climate change with a focus on Lebanon, Syria and Iraq, as well as drawing up analysis
on political and socio-economic developments in the region. Dina is EgyptianGerman. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with a Minor in
Economics from the American University in Cairo and her Master of Arts from the
Freie Universität Berlin.
Christian Achrainer (GERMANY)
Christian Achrainer has been working as Program Officer
for EUMEF since January 2011. Prior, he worked as
Program Assistant and Program Officer for EUMEF’s
predecessor project, the International Forum on Strategic
Thinking. He studied Political Science, Sociology, and
Media and Communication Science at the Universities of
Düsseldorf and Bremen. During his studies, Christian
worked for the Politische Vierteljahresschrift (PVS), the flagship
journal of German Political Science. Besides his work at
DGAP, Christian is currently preparing his PhD-Thesis on
German-Egyptian relations. His research is mainly focused
on German foreign policy and development cooperation,
German-Egyptian relations, recent developments in Egypt, and the interplay of
values, norms, and interests in International Relations.
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Anja Runge (GERMANY)
Anja Runge has been working for the DGAP since 2009,
first as an Intern and currently as Accounting Assistant for
the Forum. In this capacity, she is responsible for
administrative tasks as well as financial project monitoring
including variance analysis. Prior to joining DGAP, Anja
received her degree in Business Administration from
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In her studies she focused
on management accounting and financial reporting based
on national and international standards (IAS, IFRS) as well
as taxation of national and international transactions of
private and incorporated companies. During her studies
she worked as a Student Assistant for a non-profit
organization that fosters research on and development of small and medium-sized
companies, where she improved her knowledge of ERP-systems and data
management.
Manuela Hager (GERMANY)
Manuela Hager is currently an Intern at EUMEF and
Graduate Student of Islamic Studies at Freie Universität
Berlin. Previously, she interned at the German Near and
Middle East Association (NUMOV), a non-profit and
independent service provider for the Near and Middle East
region supporting bilateral business activities between
Germany and the Middle East. Between October 2011 and
March 2012 Manuela studied abroad at the Faculty of
Economics and Political Sciences, Cairo University.
Besides, she spent two months in Syria attending a Standard
Arabic language course at the University of Damascus
(2009) and has travelled to Lebanon and Turkey. Receiving
her Bachelor’s degree in Islamic Studies at Freie Universität Berlin in 2010, Manuela
has learned Arabic and Turkish. In the course of her studies, Manuela has so far
focused on feminist readings of the Qur’an, Islamic reformists (e.g. arguing for the
compatibility of human rights and Islamic values) as well as revivalist movements and
political Islam in South Asia.
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The 16th DGAP International Summer School
Concept Note
Egypt and Tunisia have been witnessing radical changes ever since toppling presidents
Mubarak and Ben Ali. They have seen among others a remarkable awakening of their
people and their interest in politics and in shaping their own societies, an
unprecedented flourishing of their political landscapes, (relatively) free and fair and
hence historic elections, and they are currently both engaged in writing new
constitutions for their societies. Expectedly, though, uncertainties prevail and both
countries are struggling hard with very complex steps of the transition processes in
place. They are encountering gross challenges (with the need to acknowledge the
different degrees and dimensions of these challenges between Egypt and Tunisia)
pertaining to inter alia the emergence of new powerful political actors with an Islamic
reference and a blurry, unpredictable agenda on their genuine commitment to
democratization, a further deteriorating and hence alarming socio-economic situation,
difficulties and an unwillingness respectively to deal with atrocities committed in the
past, and especially in the case of Egypt, a limbo situation of civil-military relations
and confusion over the sequence of the transitional steps and power distribution and
sharing.
The summer school will look at the status of transitions in both countries,
highlighting achievements, failures, and challenges ahead and developing solutions
through intense exchange and debate. It will, for example, address (new) concepts and
theories of democracy and models most likely to be adopted, scrutinize the quality of
the political process, the agenda of dominant political actors as well as aspects of the
socio-economic dimension of the transitional phases and related policies. It will
equally delve into other relevant subjects such as the issue of Transitional Justice, EU
and German policies towards the two North African countries, new regional alliances
and power shifts, and address how other countries have experienced their transitions
from autocratic systems to more open and democratic societies and whether lessons
derived are relevant for Egypt and Tunisia.
DGAP’s International Summer Schools gather promising students and graduates
from Europe, Turkey, Egypt, Tunisia, and Morocco in Berlin. The summer school
offers participants a unique opportunity to experience a highly stimulating, intellectual
environment and to broaden horizons by attending lectures, panel debates, working
groups, communication and argumentation workshops, and by engaging in Oxforddebates (role-plays). Renowned experts, academics as well as practitioners offer their
insights and analysis, and participants visit thematically relevant institutions in Berlin
and experience intense joint intellectual and social activities.
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Agenda
Monday 27 August
09.00
Pick-Up in front of the Hotel
09.30 – 10.00
Opening of the 16th International Summer School
Amb. Paul Freiherr von Maltzahn (ret.), Executive Vice
President, DGAP
Christian Hänel, Deputy Head of Department, International
Relations Western Europe, America, Turkey, Japan, India,
Robert Bosch Stiftung
Peter Mares, Director of zivik, Institute for Foreign Cultural
Relations (ifa)
10.00 – 11.00
Introduction to EUMEF and the Conference
Dina Fakoussa, Head of EUMEF, DGAP
11.00 – 11.30
Coffee Break
11.30 – 12.00
Different Paths towards Democracy - Egypt and Tunisia
in Comparison
Marina Ottaway, Director of the Middle East Program,
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington
D.C., USA
12.00 – 13.00
Plenary Discussion
13.00 – 14.00
Lunch at DGAP
14.00 – 15.00
Getting to know DGAP - The Role of a German Think
Tank
Eberhard Sandschneider, Otto Wolff-Director of the
Research Institute, DGAP
15.00 – 19.00
“Scavenger Hunt” through Berlin
19.00
Dinner at DGAP
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Tuesday 28 August
09.00 – 09.30
Preparation of Scavenger Hunt Presentations
09.30 – 10.30
Presentation of Scavenger Hunt Results
10.30 – 11.30
Democracy and Transformation - Approaches and
Conceptual Remarks
Paul Nolte, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History,
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
11.30 – 11.45
Coffee Break
11.45 – 13.00
Plenary Discussion
13.00 – 14.00
Lunch at DGAP
14.00 – 14.30
Islam and Democracy - The Struggle for Freedom and
Tolerance
Tariq Ramadan, Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies
and Research Fellow at St Antony's College, Faculty of
Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, UK
14.30 – 15.30
Plenary Discussion
15.30 – 16.30
Coffee Break
16.30 – 17.00
Ennahda and Moderation - Fulfilling the Image?
17.00 – 18.00
Plenary Discussion
18.00
Dinner at DGAP
Ahmed Driss, Professor of Law, Director of the Centre for
Mediterranean and International Studies, Tunisia
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Wednesday 29 August
09.00 – 09.30
Between Religion and Politics - Development and
Program of Islamist Forces in Egypt
Hamed Abdel Samad, Writer and Expert on Islamic Studies
and Movements in Egypt, Egypt
09.30 – 10.30
Plenary Discussion
10.30 – 11.00
Coffee Break
11.00 – 11.30
Introduction to the Debating Training
11.30 – 13.00
Training Workshop I - Argumentation and Structure
Clemens Lechner, German Debating Champion 2011
13.00 – 14.00
Lunch at DGAP
14.00 – 15.30
Training Workshop II - Team-play and Interaction
Christoph Krakowiak, Founder & Former President of
Streitkultur Berlin e.V.
15.30 – 16.00
Coffee Break
16.00 – 17.30
Training Workshop III - Performance and Posture,
Gesture, Voice
Dominic Hildebrand, German Debating Vice-Champion
2011
17.30 – 19.00
Dinner at DGAP & Preparation of Debate
19.00 – 20.30
Debate: The EU should place Values before Interests.
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Thursday 30 August
09.00 – 09.30
Options and Reforms for Egypt’s and Tunisia’s
Economies in Transition
Ibrahim Saif, Resident Scholar at the Carnegie Middle East
Center, Beirut, Lebanon
09.30 – 10.30
Plenary Discussion
10.30 – 11.00
Coffee Break
11.00 – 11.30
Introduction to the Debating Rules
11.30 – 12.30
Working Group Session - Preparation of the Debates
12.30 – 13.30
Lunch at DGAP
13.30 – 14.00
A New Era of Participation? Prospects and Challenges
for Civil Society in new Pluralistic Systems
Mustafa K. Al-Sayyid, Professor of Political Science at Cairo
University and Executive Director of Partners-forDevelopment for Research, Consulting, and Training, Cairo,
Egypt
14.00 – 15.00
Plenary Discussion
15.00 – 15.30
Coffee Break
15.30 – 18.00
18.00
Dinner at DGAP
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Friday 31 August
09.00 – 09.30
Democratization in Eastern Europe - A First-Hand
Account from Poland
Janusz Onyszkiewicz, Former Polish Minister of Defense and
Chairman of the Council of the Euro-Atlantic Association,
Poland
09.30 – 10.30
Plenary Discussion
10.30 – 11.00
Coffee Break
11.00 – 13.00
Working Group Session - Input Presentations
Working Group “External Actors”, Facilitator: Almut Möller,
Head of the Alfred von Oppenheim Center for European
Policy Studies, DGAP
Working Group “Socio-Economic Reforms”, Facilitator:
Inken Wiese, PhD Candidate and Consultant
Working Group “Political Islam”, Facilitator: Hoda Salah,
Consultant and Analyst on Political and Cultural Matters in
the Arab World
13.00 – 14.00
Lunch at DGAP
14.00 – 16.00
Continued
16.00 – 16.30
Coffee Break
16.30 – 18.30
Continued
18.30
Dinner at DGAP
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Sunday 2 September
11.00
Meeting in front of the Reichstag
11.30 – 14.00
Visit to the Reichstag, Seat of the German Parliament
15.25 – 17.55
Boat Trip on the Spree
Monday 3 September
09.00 – 11.00
11.00 – 11.30
Transitional Justice - Achievements and Obstacles of
Dealing with the Past
Amine Ghali, Program Director at Al Kawakibi Democracy
Transition Center, Tunis, Tunisia
11.30 – 12.30
Plenary Discussion
12.30 – 13.30
Lunch at DGAP
15.00 – 17.00
Visit to the Office of the Federal Commissioner for
preserving the Records of the Ministry for State Security
of the GDR (BStU)
18.00 – 19.30
Visit to Berliner Unterwelten e.V.
19.30
Dinner
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Tuesday 4 September
09.00 – 10.15
Debate 1: Only a Secular State can be a Full-Fledged
Democratic State.
Working Group 1 vs. Working Group 2
10.15 – 11.30
Debate 2: Islamists’ Sets of Beliefs are Irreconcilable
with Democracy.
11.30 – 11.45
Coffee Break
11.45 – 13.00
Debate 3: Neo-Liberal Policies fail to achieve Social
Justice.
Winner Debate 1 vs. Winner Debate 2
13.00 – 14.00
Lunch at DGAP
14.00 – 14.30
Turkey and the Middle East - Deconstructing its Role
and Influence
Hüseyin Bağcı, Chairman of the Department of International
Relations at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara,
Turkey
14.30 – 15.00
Perceptions of Turkey in the Middle East
Jonathan Levack, Program Officer of the Foreign Policy
Program, Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation
(TESEV), Istanbul, Turkey
15.00 – 16.30
Plenary Discussion
16.30 – 17.00
Coffee Break
17.00 – 17.30
The Geopolitical Implications of the Arab
Transformations
Volker Perthes, Director of the German Institute for
International and Security Affairs (SWP), Berlin, Germany
17.30 – 18.30
Plenary Discussion
18.30
Dinner at DGAP
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Wednesday 5 September
09.30
Meeting in front of the Hotel
10.30 – 13.45
Visit to the Federal Ministry of Defense
10.30 – 12.00
An Integrated Army - The German Bundeswehr
between Parliament and NATO
Brigadier General Hans-Werner Wiermann, Director Security
Policy at the Federal Ministry of Defence in Berlin, Germany
12.15 – 13.45
Lunch at the Ministry of Defense
14.30 – 18.00
Visit to the Federal Foreign Office
14.30 – 15.00
Germany in the MENA Region - Interests versus Values
N.N., Representative of the Federal Foreign Office, Germany
15.00 – 16.00
Discussion
16.00 – 16.30
Coffee Break
16.30 – 17.00
Development Cooperation - Failing the Mandate?
Klaus Loetzer, Director of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung,
Tunis, Tunisia
17.00 – 18.00
Discussion
19.00
Dinner at Max und Moritz, Oranienstraße 162, 10969 Berlin
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Thursday 6 September
09.00 – 09.30
Civil-Military Relations in Post-Revolutionary Settings The Case of Indonesia
Aurel Croissant, Professor of Political Science and Vice Dean
of Research at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences,
Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg, Germany
09.30 – 10.30
Discussion
10.30 – 10.45
Coffee Break
10.45 – 13.15
13.15 – 14.00
Lunch at DGAP
14.00 – 15.15
Debate 1: Democracy Promotion should be substituted
by Pure Economic Cooperation.
15.15 – 16.30
Debate 2: External Actors should use Military Force to
Remove Despotic Regimes.
16.30 – 17.30
Wrap-up Session, Feedback, Evaluation
20.00
Farewell Party at Mauersegler, Bernauer Straße 63, 13355 Berlin
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Working Group Instructions - Debating
General Idea
During the Summer School, the participants will be attending a communication and
argumentation workshop. Professional debating trainers will explain, among others,
how to structure an argument and a line of arguments, how to effectively use posture,
gesture, and voice during a debate, and how to interact as a team. During two
debating days, the participants will then be engaging in Oxford-style debates, which
are highly regulated in terms of time limits, speaker positions, and procedure. The
discussants are divided into two groups: Proposition (Yes) and Opposition (No). The
participants’ personal opinion is not decisive, since the discussants have to defend the
position they were assigned to.
Structure of the Debate
The participants will be divided into four working groups to each work on
controversial motions related to the overall topic of the Summer School and prepare
for the debates. The debates will be held on Tuesday 4 September and Thursday 6
September (after the first debating day, the working groups will be re-shuffled).
In each debate one group speaks in favor (Proposition-group/-speaker) and one
group speaks against the motion (Opposition-group/-speaker). The other two groups
are the audience, which can also actively take part in the debate (see below Q&Asession). Each group has to assign five particular speaker-positions: opening, second,
third, fourth, and closing speaker. The other group members should be active during
the Q&A-sessions.
The structure of the debate is as follows:
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Opening Speaker Prop-Group & Opening Speaker Opp-Group (3 min each)
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Second Prop-Speaker & Second Opp-Speaker (2 min each)
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Third Prop-Speaker & Third Opp-Speaker (2 min each)
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Fourth Prop-Speaker & Fourth Opp-Speaker (2 min each)
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Q&A-Session Prop (10 min; questions/comments from the audience AND the
opposition group towards the proposition group; each question/comment 30 sec.
& each answer 30 sec.)
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Q&A-Session Opp
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Closing Speaker Prop-Group & Closing Speaker Opp-Group (3 min each)
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Explanation and Procedure of the Debate
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The first speaker of the prop-group is going to start the debate. He/she is
supposed to bring forward the first set of arguments in favor of the motion. The
first opp-speaker will act accordingly. He/she is not allowed to rebut the
arguments of the first prop-speaker.
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The second prop-speaker is supposed to rebut the arguments of the first oppspeaker by using constructive (i.e. not overtly polemic) counter-arguments and
putting forward new arguments in favor of the motion. The second opp-speaker
will then rebut the arguments of the first and the second prop-speaker and bring
forward new counter-arguments.
3.
For the third and fourth speakers the same rules apply as for the second speakers.
4.
After the fourth speakers have finished, the first question & answer-session
(Q&A) takes place. The facilitator will ask the audience and the opposition-group
to pose questions/comments to the proposition-group. Each question/comment
must not be longer than 30 seconds and after each question/comment the
proposition group has 30 seconds to reply. The group can decide spontaneously
which group-member is answering the question. Altogether the Q&A-Session
will take a maximum of 10 minutes.
5.
Then the facilitator will ask the audience and the proposition-group to pose
questions/comments to the opposition-group (same procedure as in 5.).
6.
Finally, the closing speakers are required to summarize their group’s arguments.
They can use arguments supporting their position as well as arguments
questioning the validity of the position held by the other group. However, they
are not allowed to introduce new arguments. All closing speakers must stick to
the arguments that have already been forwarded.
7.
After the debate, the audience serves as a jury and each member of the audience
has one vote which he/she can give to the team he/she consideres to have been
the better team. Please note: The judgement must not be based on the personal
opinion on the motion but an objective assessment of the teams’ performance.
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Speakers (in order of appearance in the agenda)
Paul Freiherr von Maltzahn (GERMANY)
Paul von Maltzahn is DGAP’s Executive Vice President.
Prior, he worked for 40 years in the Foreign Service of the
Federal Republic of Germany, during which he became a
specialist in Middle Eastern affairs. Starting 1973 in Beirut,
he witnessed the outbreak of the civil war in Lebanon, was
in Syria during the fight for survival of the Assad regime
against the Muslim Brotherhood, and again was present
during the October Revolution of 1988 in Algiers. During his
stay in London from 1996 to 2000 he took a close view of
the Blair Revolution before moving as Ambassador to Egypt,
followed by three years in Iran, where he was part of the E3
and P5 +1 negotiations on the Iranian nuclear file. After
having three further years in Indonesia he volunteered for one year in Bagdad as his
last posting. Paul von Maltzahn has read Law and Arabic in Heidelberg, Munich, and
Hamburg. After having taken his Law Degree 1968 in Hamburg he studied Political
Sciences at l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris.
Christian Hänel (GERMANY)
Christian Hänel is Deputy Head of the Department
International Relations Western Europe, America,
Turkey, Japan, India at the Robert Bosch Stiftung. After
working in the sales department of a media distribution
company for three years, Hänel joined the Robert Bosch
Stiftung in 2001. He participated in the leadership
development program of the foundation, was Program
Officer German-American relations, served as Personal
Assistant to the Chairman of the Board of Management,
and worked as Visiting Program Officer at the Charles
Stewart Mott Foundation in Flint, MI, USA. Outside the
foundation, Hänel is member of several program jurys,
such as the Indian film festival “Bollywood and Beyond” or the country-wide
initiative “Jugend denkt Zukunft/Young Ideas for the Future”. Christian Hänel is
alumnus of the Bucerius Summer School on Global Governance and of the program
Common Purpose – Leadership for the Common Good. He studied History and
Economics at the Universities of Bielefeld and Münster and at Johns Hopkins
University in Baltimore, MD, USA, on a DAAD-scholarship.
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Peter Mares (GERMANY)
Peter Mares works for the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen
(Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations, ifa) and is heading
the zivik Funding Program since 2006. The program operating worldwide - was established in the year 2001 and
provides advice on project ideas in the sphere of conflict
transformation and peace building. In its role as
intermediary between the German Federal Foreign Office
and civil society organizations it selects and assesses
projects. Peter Mares has previously worked at the Office of
the President in Prague, Czech Republic, dealing with
communication and presentations. Additionally, he is editor
of the books “Frieden und Zivilgesellschaft: Programm,
Praxis, Partner“ and “Erfolgreich gewaltfrei: Professionelle Praxis in ziviler
Friedensförderung“. Furthermore, Peter Mares is currently coordinating a working
group on conflict and culture under the auspices of the European Union National
Institutes for Culture (EUNIC). He studied Political Science, Sociology, and Slavonic
Studies at the Universities of Nuremberg and Stuttgart.
Marina Ottaway (USA)
Marina Ottaway is Director of the Middle East Program
at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in
Washington DC, USA. She works on issues of political
transformation in the Middle East and Gulf security and
is an expert in civil society, democracy, political reform,
non-governmental actors, foreign and humanitarian aid,
human rights, and Islamist movements. Before joining
the Endowment, Ottaway carried out research in Africa
and in the Middle East for many years and taught at the
University of Addis Ababa, the University of Zambia, the
American University in Cairo, and the University of the
Witwatersrand in South Africa. Her extensive research
experience is reflected in her publications, which include nine authored books and six
edited ones. Her most recent publications include “Getting to Pluralism”, co-authored
with Amr Hamzawy and “Yemen on the Brink”, co-edited with Christopher
Boucek. She is also an author of “Carnegie’s Guide to Egypt’s Transition”, a website
that provides background and analysis on issues that will shape Egypt’s political
future, and the author of “Iraqi Elections 2010”, an online guide to Iraqi politics.
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Eberhard Sandschneider (GERMANY)
Eberhard Sandschneider has been Otto Wolff-Director of
DGAP’s Research Institute since August 2003. He has held
a chair for Chinese Politics and International Relations at
the Freie Universität of Berlin since 1998. Between 1995
and 1998, he was Professor of International Relations at the
Johannes-Gutenberg University in Mainz. He was Managing
Director of the Otto Suhr Institute from October 1999 to
March 2001 and was Dean of the Faculty for Political and
Social Sciences at the Freie Universität from 2001 to 2003.
Sandschneider’s books include “Globale Rivalen - Chinas
unheimlicher Aufstieg und die Ohnmacht des Westens”
(Global Rivals - China’s uncanny Rise and the Helplessness
of the West, 2008) and “Der erfolgreiche Abstieg Europas - Heute Macht abgeben um
morgen zu gewinnen” (Europe’s Successful Descent - Giving away Power today in
order to win tomorrow, 2011). He was promoted to Professor on the topic “The
Stability and Transformation of Political Systems” (1993) and wrote his doctoral thesis
on “Military and Politics in the PR China 1969-1986” (1986). He graduated from the
Saar University in English, Classical Philology, and Political Science in 1981.
Paul Nolte (GERMANY)
Paul Nolte has been a Professor of Modern and
Contemporary History at the Freie Universität Berlin since
2005. Prior, Nolte served as an Assistant Professor in
Bielefeld, was a German Kennedy Memorial Fellow at
Harvard
University,
and
a
Fellow
of
the
Wissenschaftskolleg – Institute for Advanced Study Berlin.
From 2001 to 2005, he joined the International University
Bremen and from 2010-2011 he was a Visiting Professor of
European History at the University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill. He will be a Senior Fellow at the Historisches
Kolleg in Munich during 2012-13. Nolte has published
widely on issues in German and US social, political, and
intellectual history of the 19th and 20th centuries, with an emphasis on social
movements, social thought, and political ideology. Several of his books have
stimulated debates in a wider public, including “Generation Reform” (2004) and
Nolte frequently comments on current political and social affairs in the media. His
most recent book, “Was ist Demokratie? Geschichte und Gegenwart”, a history and
critical analysis of democracy, has appeared in March 2012 with C.H. Beck. Paul Nolte
received his education in Düsseldorf, Bielefeld, and at the Johns Hopkins University
(MA 1987) and finished his PhD at Bielefeld University in 1993.
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Tariq Ramadan (UK)
Tariq Ramadan is a Professor of Contemporary Islamic
Studies at Oxford University (Oriental Institute, St Antony's
College) and also teaches at the Oxford Faculty of
Theology. He is a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of
Islamic Studies (Qatar), Senior Research Fellow at Doshisha
University (Kyoto, Japan), and Director of the Research
Centre of Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE) in Doha,
Qatar. Moreover, he is President of the European think
tank European Muslim Network (EMN) in Brussels.
Through his writings and lectures Tariq Ramadan has
contributed to the debate on the issues of Muslims in the
West and Islamic revival in the Muslim world. He is active
at academic and grassroots levels, lecturing extensively throughout the world on
theology, ethics, social justice, ecology, and interfaith as well as intercultural dialogue.
Ramadan holds an MA in Philosophy and French Literature and a PhD in Arabic and
Islamic Studies from the University of Geneva. In Cairo, Egypt he received one-onone intensive training in classic Islamic scholarship from Al-Azhar University scholars
(ijazat in seven disciplines). His latest book is “The Arab Awakening - Islam and the
New Middle East” Penguin (April 2012).
Ahmed Driss (TUNISIA)
Ahmed Driss is Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law in
Tunis as well as at the Faculty of Law and Economic
Sciences in Sousse. Besides, he is Professor of International
Relations at the Faculties of Law and Economic Sciences
and Management and, since 2005, President-Director of the
Centre of Mediterranean and International Studies (CEMI)
in Tunis. Until 2004, he was Program Coordinator at the
Association des Etudes Internationales, which was created
in 1980 with the objective of promoting the study of
international affairs and offering regular postgraduate
courses, which focus, among others, on security and
development in the Mediterranean. Since 2000, Driss has
been a member of the Governing Council of the Académie Internationale de Droit
Constitutionnel.
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Hamed Abdel Samad (GERMANY)
Hamed Abel Samad is a German-Egyptian Political Scientist
and Writer. He worked for UNESCO, at the Institute of
Islamic Studies at the University of Erfurt as well as at the
Department of Jewish History and Culture at the University
of Munich. He studied Literature and Political Science in
Egypt, Germany, and Japan. Abdel Samad became known
through his biography titled “Mein Abschied vom Himmel”
(My Departure from Heaven), and his book “Der Untergang
der islamischen Welt” (The Decay of the Islamic World) has
been translated into Arabic, Persian, and Dutch. During the
uprising at the end of January 2011, he went to Cairo in
order to join the revolutionaries and publicly call for
President Mubarak’s resignation. In his book “Krieg oder Frieden. Die arabische
Revolution und die Zukunft des Westens” (War or Peace. The Arab Revolution and
the Future of the West) Hamed Abel Samad analyzes the triggers and course of the
revolution and outlines the future of the Middle East.
Ibrahim Saif (LEBANON)
Ibrahim Saif is a Resident Scholar at the Carnegie Middle
East Center in Beirut, Lebanon. As an economist
specializing in the political economy of the Middle East,
his research focuses on economies in transition,
international trade with an emphasis on Jordan and the
Middle East, institutional governance, and labor-market
economics. In addition to his work at Carnegie, Saif
serves as a consultant to numerous international
organizations, including the World Bank, the
International Monetary Fund, and the International Labor
Organization. He is also a fellow with the Economic
Research Forum and a member of the Global
Development Network. Prior to joining Carnegie, Saif was the Director of the Center
for Strategic Studies at the University of Jordan and, until recently, served as the
Secretary General of the Economic and Social Council in Jordan. His recent projects
have focused on the political economy of the Euro–Med Association agreement and
the oil boom in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries. In addition, Saif has taught
at both the University of London and Yale University, where he led courses on the
economies of the Middle East.
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Mustafa K. Al-Sayyid (EGYPT)
Mustapha Kamel Al-Sayyid has been teaching Political
Science at Cairo University and the American University in
Cairo since 1982 and is also the Executive Director of
Partners-in-Development for Research, Consulting, and
Training, a think tank devoted to issues of development.
He spent one year as a Visiting Scholar at the University of
California in Los Angeles and one semester at the Law
School of Harvard University. Moreover, he held leading
positions in both the Egyptian Human Rights
Organization and the Arab Political Science Association,
served as a member of the Committee on Global Security
and Cooperation of the US Social Science Research
Council, and spent two months in the summer of 2002 working as a Visiting Fellow at
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Besides, he was the leader of the
Core Team, which prepared the original version of the Arab Human Development
Report of 2009 and directed the Center for the Study of Developing Countries at
Cairo University from April 1995 until November 2004. Al Sayyid’s main research
focus is on questions of political economy, human rights, and civil society. He was
educated in Egypt and Switzerland and earned his PhD from the Graduate Institute of
International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland in 1979.
Janusz Onyszkiewicz (POLAND)
Janusz Onyszkiewicz is a former Polish Minister of
National Defence (1991-1993 and 1997-2000) and became
a member of the Polish democratic opposition since the
mid-1960s. In 1968 he was active in strikes and
demonstrations for freedom of speech and research, and
was one of the organizers of the Solidarity Trade Union in
Warsaw region in 1980 as well as its National Spokesman
(until 1989) and a member of the National Executive
(Presidium). After 13 December 1981, he was imprisoned
for over one year and then rearrested several times.
Onyszkiewicz was the spokesman of the Solidarity
delegation to round table negotiations with the communist
authorities (Feb - April 1989), Member of the Polish Parliament from 1989-2001,
chairman of the Polish delegation to the WEU and NATO Parliamentary Assemblies,
and Deputy Minister (1990-1991) and Minister of National Defence (1991-1993 and
1997-2000). Besides, he is a Member of the Democratic Party (Union for Freedom)
and was its President between 2006-2009, as well as member and Vice-President of
the European Parliament (2004-2009). Currently he is, among others, the President of
the Council of the Euro-Atlantic Association (Poland) and adviser to the Minister of
National Defence.
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Amine Ghali (TUNISIA)
Amine Ghali is Program Director of Al Kawakibi
Democracy Transition Center (KADEM) since 2008, which
is working on issues of democracy, reform, and transition in
the Arab region - with activities and initiatives in more than
10 Arab countries. Currently he focuses his contribution on
the transition process in Tunisia, especially on political
reform, elections, and transitional justice issues. He is also a
member of the National Commission to Investigate
Corruption (March 2011 - February 2012) and currently a
member of the National Commission on the Transitional
Justice Debate (since May 2012). Before joining KADEM,
he worked in a number of regional and international NGOs
such as Freedom House and the Center for Arab Women Training and Research
(CAWTAR). Amine Ghali holds an MA in International Development Law from the
Université René Decarte, Sorbonne, Paris and a BA in International Management
from the University of Houston, Texas, and he took part in a number of special
courses and trainings in human rights and democratisation.
Hüseyin Bağcı (TURKEY)
Hüseyin Bağcı is a Professor of International Relations at
Middle East Technical Universtiy in Ankara and the Chair
of the department since October 2011. He was Guest
Researcher at the DGAP in Bonn, Senior Fellow at the
Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI) in Bonn
and Senior Fellow at the Landesverteidigungsakademie und
Militärwissenshaftliches Büro des Bundesministeriums für
Landesverteidigung in Vienna. Bağcı is a member of the
International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in
London and the Center for European Policy Studies
(CEPS) in Brussels. Moreover, he is Deputy Director of
the Foreign Policy Institute in Ankara. He has been a
Visiting Professor at the University of Bonn (as Anna Maria Schimmel Professor) in
2007, at the University of Rome La Sapienza in 2007, at the University of Lublin,
Poland in 2008, and at the Humboldt University in Berlin in 2010-2011. Bağcı has
published several books and a large number of articles on Turkish Foreign Policy and
Turkish-German relations and is widely quoted by the national and international
press. He received his PhD in Political Science from the Rheinische FriedrichWilhelms-University in Bonn in 1998.
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Jonathan Levack (TURKEY)
Jonathan Levack is Program Officer at the Turkish
Economic and Social Studies Foundation’s (TESEV)
Foreign Policy Program since 2009. In his role he mainly
deals with projects on the Middle East, including TESEV’s
annual Turkey and the Middle East public opinion survey.
Besides, Levack also has oversight of the program’s other
activities, dealing with topics such as Turkey-Armenia
relations, Transatlantic Relations, Cyprus, and Europe. He
is also an author and published on several topics ranging
from Turkish foreign policy, the Middle East, energy to
emerging markets. Levack was educated at the University of
London, from where he obtained an MA, and the
University of Bath.
Volker Perthes (GERMANY)
Volker Perthes is Director and Executive Chairman of the
Board of the German Institute for International and
Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin since 2005. Besides, he is
a Professor lecturing at Humboldt University and Free
University in Berlin. Previously, he was Assistant
Professor at the American University in Beirut and Head
of the Research Division Middle East and Africa at SWP.
He is one of the leading German analysts and
commentators on developments in the Middle East and
published widely on several aspects of the Arab spring. He
is frequently quoted by the German media. Volker Perthes
studied Political Science, History, Oriental Languages, and
Literature in Duisburg, Bochum, and Damascus. He earned his PhD at Duisburg
University in 1990 and habilitated at Duisburg University in 1999 focusing on regional
politics and political systems in the Middle East.
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Hans-Werner Wiermann (GERMANY)
Brigadier General Hans-Werner Wiermann is Director
Security Policy at the Federal Ministry of Defence in Berlin.
He entered the Army Maintenance Corps as an officer
candidate. After studying Electrical Engineering at the
Federal Armed Forces University in Hamburg, he had
several junior officer assignments on battalion level
including the command of a maintenance company. Later
he attended the General Staff Officers' Course at the
Bundeswehr Command and General Staff College and the
British Army Staff College at Camberley, UK. Highlights of
his career as a General Staff Officer were among other
assignments Assistant Branch Chief CFE-Treaty at the
Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Commanding Officer of the Maintenance
Battalion 410, and Military Assistant to the German CHOD. His first flag officer
mission was Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff for Politico - Military Affairs and Arms
Control at the Federal Ministry of Defence in Berlin.
Klaus Loetzer (TUNISIA)
Klaus D. Loetzer is currently Country Director of the
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) in Tunis. He has a long
experience in development cooperation and experienced the
different angles of development cooperation in his various
postings. He started his overseas work 1979 as a Volunteer
of the German Development Service (DED) as Town
Planner at the Francistown Town Council. From 1982-1983
he worked for the German Agency for International
Cooperation (GIZ, formerly GTZ) as Government Advisor
at the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs in Saudi
Arabia. Thereafter he joined the prestigious KonradAdenauer-Stiftung (KAS) and served as County Director in
various countries: Nigeria (1984-88) and Uganda (1988-93); from 2002-2006 in Benin
as Head of the regional project Political Dialogue West Africa, covering Togo, Côte
d’Ivoire, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger; and again as KAS Country Director in Ghana
(2006-2010) and Tunisia (from 2011), also covering Algeria. Inbetween, from 19932002, he worked as Trainer and independent freelance Consultant for the World
Bank, European Union, and GIZ in countries like Egypt, India, Sierra Leone, Liberia,
South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Somalia, Somaliland, and Ethiopia.
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Aurel Croissant (GERMANY)
Aurel Croissant is a Professor teaching Comparative
Politics and Political Theory at the Ruprecht-KarlsUniversität, Heidelberg, Germany. During 2004-2006, he
served as Assistant Professor at the Department of
National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School
Monterey. He holds a PhD (Dr. phil.) in Political Science
from the University of Mainz (2001). His main research
interests include the comparative analysis of democracy and
autocracy, civil-military relations, political violence, and
Asian politics. He has published more than 20 monographs,
edited volumes, and special issues of German and
international journals, and over 150 book chapters and
journal articles. He is co-editor of the book series “Politics in Africa, Asia and Latin
America” (VS Verlag), and “World Regions in Transition” (Nomos), and edits (with
Jeff Haynes) the journal Democratization (Taylor & Francis). He sits on the editorial
board of the Asian Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Contemporary
Southeast Asian Affairs, and is member of the Academic Advisory Boards of the
Sustainable Governance Indicators (SGI) and the Bertelsmann Transformation-Index
(BTI).
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Communication Trainers
Clemens Lechner (GERMANY)
Clemens Lechner is one of the most successful speakers in
the German competitive debating movement. He was
awarded best single speaker in several local and national
tournaments and won several of these tournaments with his
team. More often than any other German speaker, he
reached the finals of the German National University
Debating Championship – four times. In June 2011, he won
the National Championship with his teammates Severin
Weingarten and Moritz Niehaus. Because he is convinced
that democracy can only thrive in a society that cultivates
rhetoric and judgment, Clemens Lechner has been striving
to pass on his skills and share his knowledge ever since he
started his career in debating. He was president of the Jena Debating Society from
2007-2008 and member of the organizing committees of several national
tournaments. Moreover, he has been working as a trainer and coach for students of
various age groups since 2008. Clemens Lechner studied Psychology, Sociology,
Political Sciences, and Marketing at the University of Jena (2005-2011) and at Warsaw
School of Social Sciences and Humanities (2007-2008) with scholarships from the
German National Academic Foundation and the Foundation of the German
Economy. He is currently preparing his PhD thesis on social change.
Dominic Hildebrand (GERMANY)
Dominic Hildebrand is former President of Germany’s
oldest and most traditional debating society - Streitkultur in
Tübingen - where he started his debating career eight years
ago. In 2011 he won the South German Debating
Championships and succeeded as German vice-champion
with his team mates Pauline Leopold and Steffen Jenner,
after he had already won several regional and national
debating tournaments before. Dominic Hildebrand is
interested in politics and science. Before the general
conscription in Germany was disposed, he was engaged in
supporting conscientious objectors. In 2003 and 2004 he
was member of the National Advisory Council for the
Alternative Civilian Service. Dominic Hildebrand studied Biochemistry at the
University of Tübingen and at Harvard University. After he finished his studies in
2009 he started a PhD in Molecular Medicine with a focus on the fields of
Immunology and Molecular Oncology.
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Christoph Krakowiak (GERMANY)
Christoph Krakowiak started his debating career in 2005 at
Germany’s oldest and most traditional debating society Streitkultur in Tübingen. After winning several tournaments
and ending his presidency of Streitkultur, he founded the
new Debating Society Streitkultur Berlin in 2010 Germany’s first Debating Society not only for students but
also for professionals of all ages. He worked as a debating
instructor for several Debating Societies and organizations
like the Deutsche Bahn AG. Since 2008, Christoph
Krakowiak is working for the non-governmental
organization Bürger Europas in Berlin as a Project Manager
and Training Instructor on European integration and the
current financial and debt crisis. He studied Political Science, Philosophy, and
International Relations in Tübingen and Warsaw and writes presently his master thesis
on Eastern European Studies in Berlin. He received scholarships from the German
National Academic Foundation and the Hertie Foundation and was part of a research
project on Belarusian politics at the Berlin Studies Centre.
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Facilitators
Almut Möller (GERMANY)
Almut Möller has been Head of the Alfred von Oppenheim
Center for European Policy Studies at the DGAP since
2010. From 2008 to 2010 she lived and worked as a
Freelance Analyst, Author, and Consultant in London.
Between 2002 and 2008 she was a Researcher at the Center
for Applied Policy Research (CAP) at Ludwig-MaximiliansUniversität in Munich, where she initially worked in the
European Union Reform and Enlargement Program. Since
2007 she has been Head of the Center’s EuroMediterranean Program. Almut Möller was a Guest
Researcher at Renmin University of China in Beijing (2006),
Al Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Cairo
(2007), and at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS) at
Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C. (2008). She is a Non-Resident Fellow
at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS) and an
Associate Fellow at the Austria Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES).
Almut Möller holds an MA in Political Science from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
in Munich (2002). She also studied at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster
and at the Institut d’Études Politiques (Sciences-Po) in Aix-en-Provence.
Hoda Salah (GERMANY)
Hoda Salah is a Consultant on political and cultural
matters in the Arab world counseling political foundations
and the media. Until June 2012, she was Post-doctoral
Researcher within the Flow By Flow EU Egypt Bridge
Building (FFEEBB) program between the Freie
Universität Berlin and Cairo University’s Political Science
Department focusing on the issue of youth and related
challenges in the Arab World. Prior, she worked as a
Research Associate and Lecturer at the Center for Middle
Eastern and North African Politics at the Freie Universität
Berlin. Her general focal points of research are the
relationship between sexuality, religion, and politics in the
Arab world, gender issues, women’s movements in the Middle East, Islamic feminism,
political theory, transformation processes in the Middle East, dynamics of civil
society, and Islamism as a social movement.
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Inken Wiese (GERMANY)
Inken Wiese has been a PhD student in Sociology at the
University of Konstanz since 2009. She specializes on Qatar
and the UAE as donors of international development
assistance. Before that, Inken worked at the German
parliament as an Advisor on Middle Eastern affairs and on
the German military intervention in Afghanistan. She also
managed an NGO, which facilitates political education for
Palestinian and Israeli political youth organizations. As a
Consultant to various German NGOs and development
organizations, she trained Afghan political parties and
politicians in election campaigning. In 2010, she observed
the general elections in Bosnia Herzegovina. Inken Wiese
studied Middle Eastern Studies and International Law at Freie Universität Berlin,
Cairo University, and Harvard University.
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Participants (in alphabetical order)
Ahmed Mahmoud Mohamed Abolwafa Abdelgaffar (EGYPT)
Ahmed Mahmoud Mohamed Abolwafa Abdelgaffar is a
political activist and member of the party Strong Egypt.
Before joining Strong Egypt, he supported the Freedom
and Justice Party (FJP) but upon seeing that the youth are
hardly represented, he withdrew his support. He is a 6th
year Student at the Faculty of Medicine at Cairo University.
Besides, he has been volunteering for several projects like
the Red project (AIDS awareness) and different outreach
programs for poor people. Moreover, he worked as Data
Coordinator for the Men-awel-elsatr Website for
reproductive health, as a Coordinator for the World Health
Campaign in Cairo, and he launched a program aiming at
lowering the HIV Aids Rates in Malaysia.
Nadim Abillama (FRANCE)
Nadim Abillama is French-Lebanese and lived most of his
life in France and Lebanon. He studied Political Science at
the American University of Beirut and graduated with a BA
in 2010. Then, in 2011, he earned his MA in International
Relations from IE Business School in Madrid, Spain with a
master thesis on Euro-Mediterranean relations in light of
the Arab Spring. Following this, Nadim interned at the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - Middle East
Center in Beirut and the Public Information Office at the
United Nations Relief and Works Agency in Beirut.
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Meryem Akabouch (MOROCCO)
Meryem Akabouch is currently enrolled in a PhD-program
in Political Theory at LUISS Guido Carli University in
Rome. The focus of her research project is on the rise of
Islamism in post-Arab Spring North Africa. She completed
her Bachelor’s degree in French Studies at Sidi Mohammed
Ben Abdellah University and earned an MA in International
Relations and Diplomacy from Al Akhawayn University in
Ifrane. In January 2011, she moved to Rome, Italy, where
she earned a second Master’s degree in Peacekeeping and
Security Studies from Roma Tre University, with a
dissertation on the threat of radical Islamism in Morocco.
Meryem gained work experience as an Intern at the
Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, as an Office Manager at the
Department of French Studies at the University of Fes, and as an Office Coordinator
at the Hillary Clinton Center for Women Empowerment and the Office of
International Programs of Al Akhawayn University.
Nazife Al (TURKEY)
Nazife Al is currently pursuing her MA degree in
International Relations at the Middle East Technical
University in Ankara and is working as Deputy Secretary
General of the Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy
Studies (EDAM), an Istanbul-based think tank with a focus
on Turkey’s foreign and security policy, international
economics, energy, and climate change. She received her
BA degree in International Relations from Istanbul Bilgi
University in 2010. During her studies, she spent one
semester at London Metropolitan University with the
Erasmus Mobility Program. Moreover, she worked as
Student Assistant for a summer program in Istanbul of
Northwestern University, Chicago. Nazife attended a National Model United Nations
conference in New York in 2010 as the Head Delegate of the Istanbul Bilgi University
Team.
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Abdelrahman Ayyash (EGYPT)
Abdelrahman Ayyash is a Political Researcher and Activist,
specialized in political Islam. He studied Computer
Engineering at Mansoura University. As a former member
of the Muslim Brotherhood, Abdelrahman worked for the
group’s English website and created and managed several
other websites including ikhwanophobia.com, which
addresses the Muslim Brotherhood’s relations with the
Western world. He was arrested twice during Mubarak's
regime, especially due to his activism for the campaign
against military trials for civilians. He is currently working
on a project "Tahrir Observatory" to monitor the political
and media discourses of different political players in Egypt
and to emphasize the values of Tahrir in these discourses.
Amina Barketallah (TUNISIA)
Amina Barketallah is an Undergraduate Student at the
Mediterranean School of Business in Tunis. Prior, she
earned the French Baccalaureate (science section) with high
honors in 2010 and studied biology for one year at the
Institut National des Sciences Appliquées et de la
Technologie. Afterwards, she changed her vocation and
decided to go to a business school. Her extra-curriculum
activity in a youth debate club allowed Amina to participate
in the USA-Tunisia Youth Debates on 22 March 2012 and
in the Debate Boxing Day on 5 and 6 May 2012 (Young
Arab Voices organized by the British Council). She also
volunteered for the charity NGO Ayedi Arrahma.
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Naoual Belakhdar (GERMANY)
Naoual Belakhdar, a German-Algerian, currently works as a
Research Assistant at the Hertie-School of Governance in
Berlin where she is focusing on the consequences of the
Arab Revolutions on Euro-Mediterranean relations. She
studied Political Science at the Freie Universität of Berlin
and at the Institut d’Études Politiques in Paris. Her focus
lies on political participation, social movements, and various
forms of protest and resistance in Algeria, as well as on
state-society relations and current transformation processes
in the Middle East and North Africa.
Wissem Boudriga (TUNISIA)
Wissem Boudriga is persuing an MA in English and
International Relations at the Higher Institute of Human
Sciences in Tunis. In 2010 he earned his Bachelor’s degree
from the same institute. Before, in 2007, he finished his
Baccalaureate and also received the Arab Music Diploma.
Wissem has been working with the British Council-Tunis as
Invigilator since 2010 and in 2008 he interned at the
Human Resources section of the Tunisian Enterprise for
Petroleum Activities. Besides, Wissem attended a training in
community organizing and in observing elections,
participated twice in the Tunisian International Model
United Nations as delegate of Indonesia and Israel, and is
Co-Founder and member of the International Relations Association-Tunisia.
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Muttalip Çağlayan (TURKEY)
Muttalip Çağlayan is currently doing his post-graduate
studies at the Department of International Relations at the
Middle East Technical University in Ankara, where he is
also working as a Research Assistant. He obtained his
Bachelor’s degree in Political Sciences and International
Relations with a full tuition scholarship from Bahçeşehir
University in 2008. Afterwards, he worked at the Turkish
Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV), an
influential think tank in Turkey, as an Assistant to its
Democratization Program, which prepares reports on
Turkey’s domestic and foreign policy issues. Muttalip’s
main research interests include Turkey’s Kurdish question,
Iraqi Kurds, Kurdish Nationalism, radical Islam, and global Islamic movements (in
particular the Gülen Movement in Turkey).
Ouiem Chettaoui (TUNISIA)
Ouiem Chettaoui is a student of International Relations and
a teacher of English literature at the Higher Institute of
Human Sciences, Tunis (ISSHT). After having received her
high school diploma from the International School of
Choueifat, Abu Dhabi in 2006 she decided to pursue her
undergraduate studies in her country of origin, Tunisia, and
studied English Literature, Language and Civilisation at the
Preparatory Institute for Human Sciences and Literary
Studies Tunis (I.P.E.L.S.H.T.). In 2008 Ouiem succeeded in
a competitive entrance exam for the École Normale
Supérieure de Tunis (ENS) and in 2010 she received her
Maîtrise from the Faculty of Human Sciences. Alongside an
active participation in the Tunisian protest movements of 2011, Ouiem passed the
Agrégation diploma upon which she received a teaching position from the Ministry of
Higher Education. Having passed her first year in the International Relations Master’s
program with great success, ranking first, she looks forward to specialising further in
International Relations and Political Science at PhD level, keeping a special focus on
North African politics and the region’s socio-economic potential. Ouiem is a
founding member of the International Relations Association-Tunisia and a frequent
guest and commentator on Tunis International Radio’s English Language Program.
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Damla Cihangir (TURKEY)
Damla Cihangir is a second year PhD student in Political
Science at Sabancı University in Istanbul. She is also
Assistant in the project “Transworld: Redefining the
Transatlantic Relationship and its Role in shaping Global
Governance FP7 SSH”. She earned her BA degree in Social
and Political Science from Sabancı University and her first
MA degree in European Studies from King’s College
London with a Jean Monnet Scholarship of the European
Commission. She wrote her thesis on the role of the EU’s
regional policy on the Europeanization of candidate states.
Damla received her second MA degree from the University
of Athens in Southeast European Studies with a thesis on
the role of the Greek business community, civil society, and media in Turkey’s EU
accession process. She worked as a Project Assistant at ELIAMEP in Athens and as a
Junior Researcher at the Economic Development Foundation (IKV) in Istanbul for
two years. At IKV, she wrote several publications regarding the Turkish-EU accession
process, several policy areas of the EU, civil society etc. She also worked at IKV
Brussels office. Her interests are history, EU politics and governance, political parties,
and democratization.
Eugenio Dacrema (ITALY)
Eugenio Dacrema is a Research Trainee at the Milan based
think tank Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale
(ISPI) and a Master Student of International Relations and
Development Economics at the University of Bologna
(Forli branch). He obtained his BA in International
Relations at the University of Pavia. In 2009/10 Eugenio
lived in Damascus, Syria for one year where he studied
Arabic language at the University of Damascus and worked
as translator and analyst at the Damascus’s branch of ICE
(Istituto per il Commercio Internazionale - Italian Institute
for International Trade). Since 2009 Eugenio writes for the
International Relations E-magazine Equilibri. He focuses
on the MENA countries, with a special attention on macroeconomic issues. In 2011
he worked in the Lombardia region’s Spring5 project for international trade. Beyond
Equilibri, he published in the financial E-magazine FondiOnLine, the Spanish
newspaper El Confidencial, the news agency Inter Press Service, the Arab E-magazine
Jadaliyya, and the weekly bulletin on International Relations of the Italian parliament.
Currently, Eugenio is preparing his Master thesis about the macroeconomic changes
in the North African countries after the Arab Spring.
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Naiera Ellethy (EGYPT)
Naiera Ellethy is a student enrolled in the Euro-Med Master’s
program at the Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences,
Cairo University. She is currently working on her thesis on
Islamic parties in the Southern Mediterranean. Besides, she
works as a Program Officer for the Alnakib Center for
Training & Democracy Support, an Egyptian NGO working
on human rights advocacy and democracy support. Through
this organization, Naiera participated in several elections
monitoring campaigns in Egypt and is also involved in
different youth groups working on gender equality in Egypt.
Besides, Naiera is a member of the Egyptian Socialist
Democratic Party.
Sarah Elliott (UK)
Sarah Elliott is currently undertaking her Master’s degree in
Philosophy in International Relations at Cambridge
University. She grew up in Perth, Western Australia and was
granted a Bachelor’s degree in Law and History with First
Class Honours from the University of Western Australia in
2008. She subsequently moved to Sydney to become an
Associate to the Hon Justice J.D. Heydon AC at the High
Court of Australia. That year, Sarah also pursued here
interest in human rights by becoming Convenor and
Secretary of the Amnesty International Legal Network in
New South Wales and a member of the New South Wales
Young Lawyers Human Rights Committee. After practice in
refugee status determination following a brief stint as a corporate lawyer, Sarah moved
to Cambridge to pursue her MA. Through the Cambridge Centre for Governance and
Human Rights, Sarah coordinated a research group to assist the United Nations
Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial and Summary Executions in preparing a report
for the Human Rights Council on risks to the safety of journalists.
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AbdElGhany ElSokary (EGYPT)
AbdElGhany ElSokari is Project Manager of the Danish
Egyptian Dialogue Institute’s Political Education Program
and Social Media Officer of the Thomson Reuters
Foundation’s Aswat Masriya. He is a fresh graduate of the
Faculty of Law and currently enrolled at Le Magistère de
l’Institut de Droit des Affaires Internationales à l’Université
du Caire. AbdElGhany has been active in the field of
enhancing political awareness and participation in Egypt
before and after the 25 January uprising: He is the founder
of a youth initiative called “The Movement for Political
Awareness and Participation Enhancement” and
additionally organized several political awareness programs
at his university. AbdElGhany was the official delegate of Egypt at UNESCO’s 7th
Youth International Forum and he was elected to represent the MENA region in the
Drafting Committee, which works on drafting the recommendations of the world’s
youths. He participated in several workshops of the biggest human rights centre in the
Middle East, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, and was a in charge of
organizing and facilitating the 17th student course on Human Rights.
Mohamed Ramzy Ghannouchi (TUNISIA)
Mohamed Ramzi Ghannouchi is a graduate student of Law and Political Sciences at
the Faculty of Legal, Political, and Social Sciences in Tunis where he had obtained his
Bachelor’s degree with honors in 2011. Assisting a lawyer in preparing a data base
concerning elections, citizenship, emergency law, and democratic transition in May
2011, he further deepened his expertise and gained relevant work experience. Besides
his studies, Mohamed has participated in the organization of the first simulation of the
United Nations in Tunisia (TIMUN) in 2010 holding the position of the Secretary
General and participating as the President of the Security Council. After attending
coaching courses organized by the Tunisian High Authority for the Elections (ISIE)
and others in October 2011, Mohamed has gained the status of a recognized election
observer.
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Emma Ghariani (FRANCE)
Emma Ghariani is a French-Tunisian graduate from
SciencesPo Paris, where she studied Political Science,
Economics, and Humanities at the French-German College
and she was an exchange student at the Freie Universität of
Berlin. With the Arab Spring, she started focusing on this
area and in 2011 she participated in the Fulbright European
Student Leaders Program. This very decisive experience
convinced her to take a gap year in order to witness the
democratic transition in Tunisia. Accordingly, she worked
from September 2011 to March 2012 for the French
Embassy’s outpost in Sfax, in the South of Tunisia. As a
Communication Officer, she managed the restructuring of
communication, developed the cultural cooperation with the awakening civil society,
and organized training sessions for grass root NGOs. In order to be better embedded
in the democratic transition, she worked at the same time as an accredited part-time
Correspondent of the newspaper Opinion Internationale. She attended meetings and
interviewed politicians and citizens in the whole country, writing especially on issues
concerning freedom of speech and press freedom. After gaining two years of
professional experience in the region, Emma will pursue her MA studies at the School
for Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University in Bologna.
Myriam Guetat (TUNISIA)
Myriam Guetat is a second year Doctoral Student
researching on the topic “The Resistance of Cultural
Identities to the Application of International Law - The
Islamic Particularisms”. At the same time, she is registered
at the Tunisian Bar Association and is working as a Trainee
Lawyer at a legal office in Tunisia. Myriam earned her
Baccalauréat-Art major in 2005 and then studied Legal
Studies at the University of Juridical, Political, and Social
Sciences of Tunis. After that, she had been accepted at the
Institut du Droit de la Paix et du Développement at the
University of Nice Sophia Antipolis where she earned her
Master’s degree in International and European Private and
Public Law. Besides, Myriam is very interested in associative work and has experiences
as a workshop trainer for young students aiming at creating citizen associations and
clubs.
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Abderrahim Guzrou (MOROCCO)
Abderrahim Guzrou is a social scientist, linguist, and
English teacher. He graduated from the University of al
Akhawayn with an MA in International Studies and
Diplomacy with a Master thesis on “A Comparative Study
of the Electoral Systems in Morocco, Jordan, and Algeria”
and obtained his BA in Political Science from Beloit
College, Wisconsin in May 2008. Moreover, he holds a
Bachelor’s degree in English Studies from the University of
Hassan II in addition to a Certificate of Teaching English as
a Second or Foreign Language (TESL) from Beloit College.
During his 2-year stay in the USA, Abderrahim also
interned at the Office of Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin
as well as the YMCA of Arlington, Virginia. Likewise, he completed a two-month
internship at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation in Morocco and has
currently finished his 9-month internship as a Project Assistant at the British Council
in Rabat. Besides, Abderrahim teaches Business English at Sunderland UniversitySIST in Rabat.
Imane Helmy (EGYPT)
Imane Helmy is currently pursuing her Master’s degree in
Economics in International Development at the American
University in Cairo (AUC) and is working as a Research
Assistant at the German University in Cairo (GUC) where
she is involved in a project entitled “Poverty Alleviation
through Micro-financial Product Development”. Imane
graduated in 2010 from the German University in Cairo
(majors: Economics and Innovation Technology) with
highest honors and received the Middle-East Award for
Research in Development and Sustainability prized by
Procter and Gamble (P&G) Egypt for writing an
outstanding Bachelor thesis entitled "Microcredit as a
Strategy for Poverty-Alleviation: Concept and Application to Egypt". Moreover,
Imane is a board member of the NGO Alashanek Ya Balady for Sustainable
Development, which manages several projects aiming at economic and human
development in various governorates in Egypt.
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Rozan Ibrahim (EGYPT)
Rozan Ibrahim joined the Egyptian Ministry of
International Cooperation (MIC) as a Researcher
responsible for cooperation with EU institutions and the
European Investment Bank in November 2010. Prior, she
worked as a Research Assistant at the Macro Fiscal-Policy
Unit at the Ministry of Finance. Rozan graduated from the
American University in Cairo with an MA in Applied
Economics with a specialization in competitive strategy and
valuation in June 2012 and a BA in Economics with highest
honors in June 2010. During her studies, she worked as a
Research Assistant and as a Teaching Assistant at the
Economics Department at AUC. Moreover, she worked as
a Summer Trainee at the financial institution CIB and its Banking Department and at
the Customer Service Department at HSBC Egypt.
Emna Jebri (TUNISIA)
Emna Jebri currently pursues a BSc in Business
Administration at the Mediterranean School of Business in
Tunis. She is founding member and Secretary General of
the LEO Club Call of Solidarity & Tolerance (COST) as
well as founding member of the Mediterranean School of
Business (MSB) Debate Club. Besides, she was a member of
the winning team of the competition “Entrepreneurs of the
future” organized by MSB. Since 2012, Emna is External
Relationships Manager at the Tunisian Center for Social
Entrepreneurship
and
responsible
for
writing
memorandums
of
understanding
and
meeting
representatives of potential partners. As Intern at the
Maghreb Enterprise Development Initiative (MEDI), a Think Tank based in Tunis
that works on fostering entrepreneurship in the Maghreb Region, Emna was
responsible for mapping the entrepreneurial ecosystem and writing blog posts about
research conducted in Tunisia. Besides economic development, she is particularly
interested in social entrepreneurship, which led her to participate in the Social
Business Competition organized by the Tunisian Center for Social Entrepreneurship.
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Elif Kalaycıoğlu (TURKEY)
Elif Kalaycıoğlu is a first-year PhD Candidate in Political
Science at Sabancı University in Istanbul. Her research
interests are critical internal relations, notions of political
emancipation, and non-hegemonic approaches to politics
and citizenship. She holds a BA in Political Science from
Vassar College and a Master's degree with distinction in
European Studies from the LSE, where she focused on
European notions of belonging and citizenship and their
impact on Turkish-EU relations. Prior to starting her PhD
at Sabancı University, she worked for think-tanks in Turkey
and the UK focusing on issues of human and minority
rights. From 2010 to 2011, she worked as a Producer for
BBC World Service's Turkish desk. Her work at BBC coincided with the first six
months of the Arab Spring, leading to her taking a close interest in the unfolding of
the uprisings as well as the international response to and engagement with it.
Ute Kohler (GERMANY)
Ute Kohler is studying Development Studies (Mag.) and
Arabic Studies (BA) at the University of Vienna since 2007.
During her studies abroad at the Middle East Studies
Program of the American University in Cairo and the
Arabic Department of INALCO in Paris she acquired
further knowledge of her regional research focus. She is
currently preparing one of her final theses on the
recruitment of women for active jihad with a focus on alQaeda. Her main interests are Middle Eastern politics and
society, the Arabic language and culture, migration and
asylum in Europe, theories of development, and non-state
actors in regional conflict areas. She has been volunteering
at several organisations in the field of migration and refugees, such as the Austrian
Red Cross in Vienna and France Terre d’Asile in Paris. At the University of Vienna
she has also been working as Student Tutor for a transdisciplinary development
research seminar and as President of student representatives for Arabic Studies. Ute
was in Cairo during the Egyptian Revolution, the event leaving her deeply impressed
and intrigued about the countries’ revolutionary potential. Since then she has been
following the transition period with all her attention.
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Shaimaa Magued (EGYPT)
Shaimaa Magued is a PhD Candidate in International
Relations at SciencesPo Aix since 2009. She earned a
Master’s degree in Public Policy and Administration and in
International Relations from the American University in
Cairo (AUC) and Sciences Po Paris respectively. Moreover,
she holds a BA in Political Science from the Faculty of
Economics and Political Science at AUC and a French
language diploma (DELF). Shaimaa interned at the French
Institute of Anatolian Studies (IFEA) in Istanbul, the Arab
League, the Arab National Security Sector, and the
Economic, Political and Juridical Documentaries and
Studies Center (CEDEJ). Besides, she has published several
articles on Turkish foreign policy, Middle East politics, and political economy.
Miguel Mateos Muñoz (SPAIN)
Miguel Mateos Muñoz is a Political Scientist and Journalist.
He obtained his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in
Communication Studies at the Universidad Complutense in
Madrid. During his studies, he spent one year at the Ruhr
Universität in Bochum, Germany in an Erasmus Program
and one year at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México, specializing in International Relations. After
obtaining his MA in International Relations and Diplomacy
from the Escuela Diplomática in Spain, Miguel spent almost
one year as a Policy Officer at the Embassy of Spain in
Lebanon.
Sponsored
by
the
Autonomous
Regional Government of Castile-La Mancha, Spain he
pursued his MA in European Political and Administrative Studies at the College of
Europe in Bruges, Belgium with merits (“Mention Bien”). In order to deepen his
knowledge of EU issues, he did a five months traineeship at VOICE in 2012, the
main humanitarian NGO network in Brussels. Miguel has been enrolled in an
important record of courses about the Middle East and International Relations in
institutions such as the Euro-Arab Foundation of Higher Studies or Queens
University of Belfast, writing on these topics in the blog PassimBlog.com, founded by
him and fellow colleagues.
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Markus Mayr (GERMANY)
Markus Mayr currently divides his time between his roles as
Researcher and Executive Assistant at the Brussels office of
the German Institute for International and Security Affairs
(SWP) as well as Junior Research Fellow at Carnegie
Europe. Previously, he was responsible for the German
team and the international research on civil society in a
project developing information tools for UN stakeholders.
Markus studied in Passau and Helsinki for his
undergraduate degree in Governance and Public Policy and
holds a Master of Laws in International Law with
International Relations from the University of Kent Law
School. His graduate studies focused on international
human rights and humanitarian and criminal law, while his current research addresses
issues of transitional justice as well as legal and political aspects of conflict
management. During his studies, Markus supported Crisis Action Berlin’s work on the
conflicts in Somalia, DR Congo, and Sudan and was a Research Assistant in a project
on public health policy at the University of Passau. In 2009, he interned at the
DGAP’s Alfred von Oppenheim Centre for European Policy Studies.
Regine Schwab (GERMANY)
Regine Schwab is currently pursuing her graduate
studies in Sociology and Political Science at Humboldt
University in Berlin, with a focus on the MENA
region. Besides, she is a Student Assistant at her
institute, the Department of Comparative Structural
Analysis. Regine accomplished her undergraduate
studies in Berlin and Berkeley, California. During her
studies in Berkeley, from 2010 to 2011, she started to
focus on the Middle East and in particular on Egypt.
Her research interests include religion and politics,
state formation in the MENA region, civil society,
social movements, political Islam, identity politics,
gender, and Arab media. In Berkeley, Regine was a Research Assistant in the project
“From Revolution to Regulation: Politics and Religion in Post-Revolutionary Iran”,
which focused on the changes within the Iranian religious field since the 1979
revolution. She wrote her Bachelor thesis on the Egyptian revolution in 2011, using
the framework of public sphere, performance, and social movements. Regine would
like to return to Cairo to carry out research for her Master thesis, probably on women
in the Islamist movement.
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Mickaël Vogel (FRANCE)
Mickaël Vogel holds a BA from SciencesPo Paris, where he
studied Political Science, International Relations, and
Middle Eastern Studies. He is currently a prospective
student at the London School of Economics (MSc
International Relations). He has interned at the French
Institute for International Relations for more than six
months at the North Africa/Middle East program, where
he participated in the organization of several international
events on the international relations of the Middle East and
the Arab Awakening, while conducting research on several
topics linked to North Africa and the Arab revolutions.
Mickaël has completed a research internship at the Jacques
Berques Center in Rabat last summer, at the end of which he published a paper on the
democratization process of Morocco. He has lived for almost a year in Cairo in
2011/2012, and is currently interning at Jadaliyya (e-zine) as a Maghreb Page
Researcher and French Editor. His interests focus on North African politics,
transnational actors in North Africa, Islam in international relations, and the foreign
policies of North African countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
Marwa Wasfy (EGYPT)
Marwa Wasfy is Assistant Lecturer of Political Science at
Cairo University instructing courses on foreign policy and
Western political systems. Previously, she worked as an
Economic Researcher at the multinational corporation
Bench Mark and as editor in various independent
magazines. Focusing in her thesis on the American foreign
policy towards Political Islam, including different case
studies from Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, and Palestine, she
earned her Master’s degree in International Relations at
Cairo University in 2007. Marwa's research interests range
from American foreign policy and European studies to
Middle Eastern studies and gender equality. Her BA
graduation research focused on predicting the future of the international system. She
has also conducted research on the liberal theory of democracy. Besides, Marwa has
participated in many conferences on youth and women empowerment organized by
different academic institutions and NGOs engaged on both the national and the
international level. Furthermore, she has recently received a scholarship to study one
semester in Tübingen University in order to collect part of her MA data and has also
been selected to participate in the last International Visitor Leaders Program
organized by the American State Department.
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Information and Logistics
Emergency Numbers
Police
Emergency
110
112
Dina Fakoussa
Christian Achrainer
Anja Runge
Manuela Hager
+49 (0)176 649 16 226
+49 (0)172 653 65 36
+49 (0)175 367 99 69
+49 (0)160 54 73 178
SORAT Hotel Ambassador Berlin
BVG, Public Transport Information
+49 (0)30 21 90 20
+49 (0)30 194 49
Library and Documentation Center (BiDok)-DGAP
Opening Hours: https://dgap.org/en/library/start
Library FAQ: https://dgap.org/en/library/faq
WLAN is provided on DGAP’s entire ground floor
WLAN network: event
WLAN Password: dgap1955
Dress Code
Formal dress code (suit) is required for the opening session (27 August) as well as the
visit to the Federal Ministry of Defense and the Federal Foreign Office (5 September).
During normal lecture sessions at DGAP, business casual is fine (no shorts). We
strongly recommend to wear comfortable shoes on all activities outside DGAP as
they might involve a bit of walking.
Participation and Punctuality
It is absolutely mandatory to be on time for every activity during the Summer School.
You are required to be at DGAP at 8:45am on every lecture day, except for the
opening day. Repeated failure to be punctual will result in the exclusion from the
program. Unexcused absence from any activity will have the same consequences (nonreimbursement of travel grants and exclusion from the Summer School).
Laundry Facilities
Keithstraße 39, about half-way between the Hotel and DGAP. Phone: 0049-30-262
33 11.
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Directions
SORAT Hotel Ambassador Berlin
The SORAT Hotel Ambassador Berlin is located on Bayreuther Straße 42,
10787 Berlin.
(phone +49 (0)30 21 90 20, fax +49(0)30 21 90 23 80, email: [email protected]). It is a ten minute walk to DGAP (see map).
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TRANSFER TO DGAP/ SORAT Hotel
FROM AIRPORT BERLIN TEGEL (TXL)
 Take Bus X9, direction “Zoologischer Garten”, and get off at
“Zoologischer Garten” which is the last stop (5 stops, approx. 20 minutes).
 To DGAP: Change to Bus 200, direction “Michelangelostraße”, and get off
at “Corneliusbrücke” (3 stops, approx. 10 minutes),
o Walk about 30 meters in the driving direction of the bus and turn
left into “Rauchstraße”. The DGAP is the last building on the left.
 To SORAT Hotel: Change to the subway U2, direction “Pankow”, and get
off at “Wittenbergplatz” (1 station).
o The Sorat Hotel Ambassador Berlin is located on Bayreuther Straße
42, which directly departs from Wittenbergplatz (see map above).
You will reach the hotel after approx. 200 meters.
FROM AIRPORT BERLIN SCHÖNEFELD (SXF)
 Walk to the S-Bahn/train station and take S-Bahn “S 9”, direction “S+U
Pankow”, and get off at “Ostkreuz” (9 stops, approx. 25 minutes).
 Change to S-Bahn “S 5”, direction “Spandau”, and get off at “S+U
Zoologischer Garten” (10 stops, approx. 20 minutes).
 To DGAP: Take Bus 200, direction “Michelangelostraße”, and get off at
“Corneliusbrücke” (3 stops, approx. 10 minutes),
OR



Walk to the train station “S Flughafen Berlin-Schönefeld Bhf” and take the
train RE7, direction „S+U Zoologischer Garten” or RB14, direction
“Nauen”. Get off at “Zoologischer Garten”.
To DGAP: Take Bus 200, direction “Michelangelostraße”, get off at the
third stop “Corneliusbrücke”,
To SORAT Hotel: Change to the subway U2, direction “Pankow”, and get
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FROM BERLIN MAIN STATION („BERLIN HBF“)
 Take any S-Bahn leaving from track 16 (S5, S9, S75, all westbound),
direction “Zoologischer Garten”, “Westkreuz”, “Spandau” (3 stops, approx.
5 minutes) and get off at “Zoologischer Garten”.
 To DGAP: take Bus 200, direction “Michelangelostraße” and get off at
“Corneliusbrücke” (3 stops, approx. 10 minutes),
TAXIS
Taxis are available at the airport and main station. Please note that due to
regulations by its donors DGAP does not cover taxi costs! The estimated fares
are as follows:
Tegel Airport (TXL) to DGAP, Rauchstr. 17/18: approx. 15-20€
Schönefeld Airport (SXF) to DGAP, Rauchstr. 17/18: approx. 30-35€
PUBLIC TRANSPORT/BUYING YOUR TICKET
Public transport tickets are available
from the yellow vending machines
(which feature instructions in
English) or from the ticket window
at the entrance of stations. Tickets
must be validated (see picture on
the right) at the platform entrances
to U-/S-Bahn stations prior to
boarding the train, or aboard buses
upon entering. A single ticket for
the AB district is valid for 2 hours
(€ 2,40). If you are traveling from
Schönefeld-Airport you will have to
buy an ABC ticket (€ 3,10).
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Berlin City Guide
Places to See and Visit during the Day
Within a short walking distance from your hotel you can find the Neue
Nationalgalerie (New National Gallery). The building was designed by the famous
architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (Potsdamer Str. 50; Tue, Wed & Fri 10-18, Thu
10-22, Sat. & Sun. 11-18).
Potsdamer Platz lies northeast of the Neue Nationalgalerie along Leipziger Straße.
Rebuilt after the fall of the wall in 1989, this area has become quite popular for its
shops, restaurants, and cafés, and of course for the Sony Centre. The Sony Centre is
considered one of the finest pieces of modern architecture in Berlin and houses over
40 theaters in its Cinema complex, as well as a film museum.
Between Potsdamer Platz and Anhalter Bahnhof you will find the permanent open air
exhibition “Topography of Terror” (Niederkirchnerstrasse 8), which covers the
history of the National-Socialist era. You will also find parts of the Berlin Wall
(approx. 200m) on the north side of the exhibition area.
North of Potsdamer Platz on Ebertstraße you will find the Brandenburg Gate. It
was first constructed in 1791 and is, as a symbol of German reunification, probably
the best known landmark in Berlin. On the west side of the Gate is the Tiergarten, a
big park in the center of Berlin and a wonderful location to relax. Located extremely
close to the DGAP and a nearby lake, the “Café am Neuen See” is one of Berlin’s
nicest beer gardens. The Tiergarten is also home to the Siegessäule, a 62 meter high
victory column at the roundabout called “Großer Stern”, which was erected in 1873
to commemorate Prussia’s defeat of Denmark, Austria, and France. It was originally
built in front of the Reichstag but was moved to the park in 1939. Nice view from the
top.
In walking distance from the DGAP you will find the famous Kurfürstendamm
(better known in Berlin as “Ku’damm”) and the Tauentzienstraße. It is mainly a
shopping district. Another symbol of Berlin located in this area is the KaiserWilhelm-Gedächtnis-Kirche (Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church). The church
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consists of a bombed out steeple from the Second World War with a modern version
of the church erected next to it. This area attracts a number of street performers and
souvenir vendors. On the Tauentzienstraße near the Wittenbergplatz you’ll also find
the KaDeWe, the largest department store in continental Europe. Built in 1906 and
nearly completely destroyed during the Second World War, its 6 floors are definitely
worth a look. The food court on the 6th floor is especially impressive—though quite
expensive!
East of the Brandenburg Gate is Unter den Linden, a wide boulevard with a number
of cafés, restaurants, and shops. It stretches almost till Alexanderplatz. If you follow
this alley from the Brandenburg Gate and pass the Pariser Platz, it will take you past
the German Guggenheim of Berlin, the German Historical Museum, the Berlin
Cathedral, as well as the former site of the Palace of the Republic, which has
recently been demolished.
A bit further down the road, where Unter den Linden crosses Spandauer Straße, you
will see the famous Rotes Rathaus, Berlin’s town-hall (named for its red bricks),
where the current mayor Klaus Wowereit presides. Next to it you find the
Nikolaiviertel, where you can get an impression of 13th century Berlin. It is now wellknown for its pubs, wine taverns, and little shops.
From the same square you will see the Fernsehturm. It is Berlin’s most famous
tower and dwarfs the city landscape, rising 368 meters above the ground. Open 09:00
a.m.-until midnight, you can take the elevator up to the observation deck (203m). The
admission fee is € 12,00. There is also a café at the top, which does not only offer
food and drinks but also an impressive view over Berlin (it might be smart to make a
reservation).
Where Spandauer Straße turns into Rosenthalerstraße, you find the Hackescher
Markt along with the Hackesche Höfe. The Höfe are artistic courtyards complete
with outdoor cafés and a theatre (the Chamäleon). There is also a beach bar
(“Strandbar Mitte”), located between Hackescher Markt and the new Bodemuseum
on the Museumsinsel, a peninsula on the Spree river home to Berlin’s most
important museum complex.
There are many more sights in Berlin that are definitely worth seeing, although they
are further away from the city’s centre. One of them is Schloss Charlottenburg, a
palace located in the Western part of Berlin. It is the largest house of the
Hohenzollern family (Tue-Sun 10-18; 12€; Bus 145 to Schloss Charlottenburg). In the
former western part of the city you will also find the Alliierten Museum (Allied
museum) on Clayallee 135. The museum documents the presence of American,
British and French troops in Berlin from 1945 to 1994 and includes larger objects
such as former aircrafts and the original Checkpoint Charlie building at
Friedrichstraße (Thu-Tue 10-18, closed on Wed; S 1 to “Zehlendorf”, then Bus 115;
or U3 to “Oskar Helene Heim”, then Bus 115 or 183 to “Alliiertenmuseum”).
A sight not to miss in the East of Berlin is the East Side Gallery. The “gallery” is the
largest remaining piece of the Berlin Wall designed by more than 100 artists after the
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fall of the Berlin Wall (U1, U15 to Warschauerstraße or S3, S5, S7, S9 to Ostbahnhof
or Warschauerstraße; the actual wall is located on Mühlenstraße, between the two
stations Warschauer Str. and Schlesisches Tor).
Other places to visit in Kreuzberg include the Mauermuseum (The Wall Museum;
U6 or Bus M29 to Kochstraße, Museum Hours: daily 09:00-22:00) and Checkpoint
Charlie, a reconstruction of the former crossing station between the old East and
West Berlin. A few blocks southeast of Checkpoint Charlie you can find the Jewish
Museum (Lindenstraße 9-14; Mon. 10:00-22:00, Tues.-Sun. 10:00-20:00).
Places to go to at Night (by district)
PRENZLAUER BERG
Crowd: Academics, young families, young professionals, media people, artists, new
bohemians, Swabians, LOHAS, hipsters
Prices:
Beer € 3, Longdrinks € 5, Cocktails € 8
Stations:
U+S Eberswalder Straße
U+S Schönhauser Allee
Places to see: Kastanienallee, Pappelallee, Kollwitzplatz, Helmholtzplatz, Mauerpark
Tips:
Prater, the oldest beer garden in the city, reopened in 1996, great place for summer
nights (Kastanienallee 7-9)
Fluido, very nice and cosy cocktail bar with leather sofas, and great drinks. Ring the
bell if the door isn’t open (Christburger Str. 6)
Saphire Bar, elegant cocktail bar with an exceptionally sophisticated drink menu
(Sredzkistr. 62)
SchwarzSauer, open 24 hours, great for the last beer of the night as well as for a
cheap breakfast the next day (Kastanienallee 13)
June, great cocktail bar which serves the best Moscow Mule in town (Sredzkistr. 65).
MITTE
Crowd: Young urban professionals, media & soap crowd, trend-setters, hipsters,
artists, and tourists of all varieties
Prices: Beer € 3,50, Longdrinks € 7, Cocktails € 10
Stations:
S Hackescher Markt
U Oranienburgerstraße
U Rosenthalerplatz
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Places to see: Oranienburger Straße, Hackescher Markt, Rosenthaler Straße,
Torstraße, Zionskirchplatz, Friedrichstraße
Tips:
Bar 103, stylish people, great red wine, nice dishes and lots of interesting things to
do—and people to observe! (Kastanienallee 49)
Weekend, open from Thursday-Saturday, famous electronic music club in the 12th
and 15th floor of the Sharp tower on Alexanderplatz, with newly opened roof terrace
(open Tuesday-Sunday from 7 pm) on the 17th floor! One of the best places to have a
drink while watching the sunset! Breathtaking views. Sometimes difficult to get in.
Take the elevator (Alexanderplatz 5)
Cookies, open on Tuesdays and Thursdays, formerly illegal and extremely popular
club with many varying locations, very tough door policy (Friedrichstr. 158, corner
Friedrichstr./Unter den Linden, in the building of the Best Western Hotel)
Eschloraque Rümpschrümp, extremely creative bar, hidden though. It is a part of
“Haus Schwarzenberg Complex” (turn right at Hackescher Markt, walk in the
backyard of Cinema Central, follow the blue string of lights, ring the bell at the door!
Rosenthaler Straße 39)
Delicious Doughnuts, bar/club, Britpop and electro music (Rosenthaler Straße 9)
Kalkscheune, huge disco with more or less mature crowd, great for dancing
(Ziegelstr.)
Kaffee Burger, very popular cult bar with long-standing traditions and vodka rituals!
Famous “Russendisko” once a week (Torstraße 60)
Hafenbar, every Friday German "Schlager" party, always crowded (Chausseestr. 20)
Tresor, one of the world's most famous techno clubs, recently reopened in a gigantic
former heat and power plant, worth visiting even if you don't like the music
(Köpenicker Str. 70)
40Seconds and Solar, dining in penthouse clubs with fantastic views over the city
(40Seconds, Potsdamer Straße 58, 8th floor; Solar, Stresemannstraße 76, 17th floor )
KREUZBERG
Crowd: „Mediterranean Flair“ with a (strong) touch of Punk Rock, students, artists
and hipsters
Stations:
U Kottbusser Tor
U Görlitzer Bahnhof
U Schlesisches Tor
U Mehringdamm
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Places to see: Oranienstraße, Wienerstraße, Paul-Linke-Ufer, Bergmannstraße,
Viktoriapark, Gräfestraße, Maybachufer
Tips:
Ankerklause, cosy dive, nice people, cheap drinks and good food, hook-up
atmosphere (Kottbusser Damm 104/Maybachufer)
Würgeengel, one of the nicest bars in town. Named after a Buñuel movie—perfect
place for a date (Dresdenerstraße 122)
Orient Lounge, located in the heart of Kreuzberg; unique place where orient meets
occident (Heinrichplatz, 1st floor inside the „Rote Harfe“)
Watergate, great club right by the river with huge glass windows, outdoor area and a
great view of the canal. Sometimes tough door policy. Music: Electro (Falckensteinstr.
49, U Schlesisches Tor)
Freischwimmer and Club der Visionäre, very popular open-air bars and clubs
which face each other across the canal, perfect for summer months (you can find both
of them within a short walking distance of the U Schlesisches Tor, after you pass the
gas station ARAL, you will find Freischwimmer on the left side, and Club der
Visionäre across the bridge, Vor dem Schlesischen Tor 2a/ Am Flutgraben, 12435
Berlin)
Lido, located in the heart of Berlin-Kreuzberg, former cinema charms bands and
visitors at the same time, grand outdoor area to chill aside the big party. One of
Berlin’s most popular party and concert venues, Indie-Rock-Pop-Electronic
(Cuvrystraße 7)
Sage Club, former illegal cult club, hosting some of the most memorable parties.
Thursdays Hard’n’Heavy, weekends House, Pop, HipHop (U Heinrichstrasse,
Brückenstr. 1)
Monarch, bar/club right at Kottbusser Tor (Skalitzer Str. 134)
Luzia, good bar right on Oranienstraße (Nr. 34); it does not say the name on the
outside
Hotel Bar, popular small bar/club (Mariannenstr. 26), many ERASMUS students
Ritter Butzke, good (Electro-)club in a good location (Ritterstr. 24)
KaterHolzig, located right by the river and one of Berlin’s most vibrant Electro clubs
(Michaelkirchstr. 23). Especially during summer the best place to enjoy good music,
dance from Friday to Sunday and chill in the awesome outdoor area with view of the
river.
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NEUKÖLLN
Crowd: mainly Arabic and Turkish neighborhood, but more and more students and
artists are moving there (especially popular among English and Spanish speaking
newcomers)> highly interesting mixture: Orient meets hipsters
Prices: Beer 2€; Longdrinks 4€, Cocktails are hard to find…
Stations:
U Hermannplatz
U Rathaus Neukölln
U Schönleinstraße
Places to see: Weserstraße, Hobrechtstraße, Weicheslstraße, Richardplatz
Tips:
Ä, popular bar right on the corner Weserstraße/Fuldastraße (Weserstraße 40); good
live concerts for free every Tuesday
Tier, great bar located just across the street from Ä (Weserstraße 42)
Tristeza, very leftie bar on Pannierstraße (Nr. 5), cheap beer (0,5l for 1,50€), good
place for playing table football, PunkRock
Kuschlowski, very creative bar on Weserstraße (Nr. 202), small and cosy
B-Lage, bar on Mareschstraße (Nr. 1), perfect for watching the “Tatort” on Sunday
Fuchs & Elster (Weserstraße 207), one of the first dancing places in Neukölln
Nathanja & Heinrich (Weichselstraße 44), relaxed Bar with classical Berlin style
Loftus Hall (Maybachufer 48), one of the few clubs in Berlin, based in an old club
house of a football club, music: Electro
FRIEDRICHSHAIN
Crowd: Students and young families
Prices: Beer € 2,50, Longdrinks € 4,50, Cocktails € 6
Stations:
U Warschauerstraße
S Ostkreuz
Places to see: Simon-Dach-Straße, Boxhagener Platz and surroundings
Tips:
Lovelite, located in a former garage. Apart from parties and concerts Lovelite is also a
forum for various art and culture projects. Nice place; it doesn’t get crowded before 2
am though, HipHop, Funk, Electro (Simplonstr. 38-40)
Cassiopeia, former ruinous factory halls of an old train reparation plant, a party and
concert location inside and outdoors, hosting local musicians and international topacts (Revaler Str. 99), good HipHop parties
Habermeyer, great lounge/bar, cool design, low prices, good DJs (Gärtnerstr. 6)
Panorama Bar/Berghain: recently been nominated the best club in the world.
Located in an old electricity plant. Berghain (Saturdays) with largely gay crowd,
Panorama Bar (Fridays and Saturdays) with mixed crowd. Sometimes long waiting
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times to get in (especially between 1 and 3 am). Don’t get scared by the notorious
bouncer, pretty tough door policy (Am Wriezener Bahnhof).
Pavillon am Volkspark Friedrichshain: 150-person dance floor, beer garden,
lounge, terrace, café by day and club by night – perfect for summer months!
(Friedenstr. 101)
Yaam, the number one Reggae-club in Berlin with a nice beach bar at the Spree
(Stralauer Platz 35, near Ostbahnhof)
Salon zur Wilden Renate (Alt Stralau 70), great club in an old apartment building,
mainly Electro, sometimes good concerts
SCHÖNEBERG
Crowd: Academics and business people in their mid-30s, gays, lesbians (especially
around Nollendorfplatz)
Prices: Beer € 3, Longdrinks € 5, Cocktails € 6
Stations:
U Kleistpark
S Julius-Leber Brücke
U Eisenacher Str.
U Nollendorfplatz
Places to see: Belziger Straße/Akazienstraße, Winterfeldtplatz, Crellestraße
Tips:
Platzhirsch: A beer garden serving traditional German food – mostly Bavarian – next
to the Rathaus Schöneberg (Freiherr-vom-Stein-Straße 20, U4: Rathaus Schöneberg)
Zulu Bar: This cosy bar is open till 5a.m. (Kleistpark, Hauptstraße 4)
Romantica Bar Central: Nice restaurant with relaxed atmosphere (Akazienstraße 8)
Kumpelnest 3000: a place where you will probably find the most diverse crowd of
people and one of the weirdest interior (Lützowstraße 23)
CHARLOTTENBURG
Crowd: Business-people, old West Berlin bourgeoisie and young posh ‘natives’ (born
in Berlin)
Stations:
S Savignyplatz
S Charlottenburg
Places to see: Savignyplatz, Stuttgarter Platz, Leonhardtstraße, Rönnestraße, Olivaer
Platz
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Tips:
Schwarzes Café: Located on Kantstraße (Nr. 148) next to the S-Bahnhof
Savignyplatz, this bar is open 24 hours a day.
Café Hardenberg: A café next to the Technical University of Berlin (Marchstr. 10).
Reasonable prices and mostly frequented by students (large beer: 2,60€, breakfast 3€)
Zwölf Apostel: One of the best pizzas in town (though rather pricy) and always
crowded (S Savignyplatz; Bleibtreustr. 49).
Films in English are widely screened in Berlin, just make sure to look for the right
code: OV (original version), OmU (original version with German subtitles) and
OmE/OmenglU (original version with English subtitles).
Movie theatre close to the hotel:
Cinestar Im Sony Center
Potsdamer Platz 4
Berlin-Tiergarten
Telefon 018 05/24 63 62 99
S-Bahn: Potsdamer Platz; U-Bahn: Potsdamer Platz
Bus: 148, 200, 248, 348, N5, N52, TXL
City Magazines:
Exberliner (<www.exberliner.com>)
Zitty (<www.zitty.de>)
Tip (<www.berlinonline.de/tip>)
030 (for free in almost every Bar/Café/Club) (<www.berlin030.de>)
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