Elhame Manea
Is of Yemeni origin. She is currently living and working in Switzerland.

EDUCATION
8/1996-11/2000 Ph.D. (high honors) in Political Science
University of Zurich, Institute for Political Science, Department of International Relations

08/1993-08/1995 M.A. (Cum Laude) in Comparative Politics
The American University, Washington, D.C.

09/1985-05/1989 B.A. (Summa Cum Laude) in Political Science
Kuwait University


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Since 2004 Deputy Head of the Arabic Service, Swissinfo, Bern, Switzerland

06/1997- 12/2003 Multimedia Journalist and Radio Presenter, Swissinfo /
Swiss Radio International, Arabic Department, Bern, Switzerland

01/1991-07/1993 Teaching Assistant, Political Science Department
University of Sana'a, Republic of Yemen

06/1990-03/1993 Secretary of the Academic Staff Affairs Committee
Office of the Vice Rector, Sana'a University


OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Since 03/2005 Lecturer in Political Science, University of Zurich
Institute for Political Science, Department of International
Relations

03/1997 Interpreter and Interviewer “Yemen: The Last Drop of Water”
Format NZZ (documentary film), Republic of Yemen

04/1993 Liaison Officer for the Foreign Minister to the European Parliament
Delegation overseeing the 1993 election in the Republic of Yemen

PUBLICATIONS

Books
Regional Politics in the Gulf: Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen, Saqi Books: London, 2005
Regional Politics in the Developing World: The Case of the Arabian Peninsula (Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Oman), Doctorate Thesis, Studentendruckerei: Zurich, July 2001
[translated into Arabic and published in: Al Quds Newspaper, London, 24.09.2002 – 12/13.10.2002]
Political Parties and Organizations in Yemen, 1948-1993 (in Arabic), The Athawabit Book Series #2, Sana'a, 1994

Novels
Echo (in Arabic), Saqi Books: Beirut, 2005

Articles and Essays
Überleben und Übergeben: Familienherrschaften auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, in: Hartmut Fähndrich (Hrsg.), Vererbte Macht: Monarchien und Dynastien in der arabischen Welt, Campus Verlag: Frankfurt / New York, 2005, pp. 81-102
Living in a Secular Environment? December 2004 (mimeo)
La tribu et l’Etat au Yémen, in: Mondher Kilani (ed.), Islam et changement social, Editions Payot: Lausanne, 1998, pp. 205-218
The Arab National Security between Theory and Reality (in Arabic), Althawabit Periodical: Sana'a 1993, 34pp.
The Algerian Electoral Experience, in: Proceedings of the Symposium on the Electoral System and the Future of Democracy in Yemen (in Arabic), Sana'a, 16/17 February 1992, 25pp.
Numerous articles published in: Al Quds Newspaper, London (2001 - 2003) and Albayan Newspaper, Dubai (2001)


AWARDS
Membership of the Pi Sigma Alpha, The National Political Science Honor Society, USA, since 1994
Fulbright Scholarship, USA, 1993-1995
The Golden Medal for Achievement, Kuwait University, 1991


LANGUAGES
Arabic (mother tongue), fluent in English and German
 

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