Achim Rohde

Dr. Phil, received his Masters‘ Degree in Islamic Studies, History and Social Anthropology from Hamburg University (2000). He submitted his PhD on „Facing Dictatorship. State-Society Relations in Ba`thist Iraq“ to the Free University Berlin (2006).
He has been working as a research fellow at the Georg Eckert Institute since June 2006.
Furthermore, he has been working as a freelancer for various institutions of political adult education in Hamburg, and also as a lecturer at the Asia-Africa-Institute of Hamburg University.

Project

Achim Rohde works within the programme "European cultural dialogue with Islam" on an Israeli-Palestinian textbook project, on a project dealing with appproaches to peace pedagogy in History, Geography and Civics instruction in Israel and Palestine, as well as on project about textbook research and revision in the Middle East.

Among his Publications are

• „State-Society Relations in Ba'thist Iraq. Facing Dictatorship“, London/New York: Routledge 2009
• "Der liberale Ayatollah", in taz, 10.04.09
• "The Orient Within. Orientalism, Anti-Semitism and Gender in 18th to early 20th Century Germany", in: L. Conrad, U. Rebstock, B. Jokisch (eds.), Fremde, Feinde und Kurioses: Innen- und Außenansichten unseres muslimischen Nachbarn, Berlin, New York: De Gruyter 2009, in print
• "Zur Geschichte der Abteilung Geschichte und Kultur des Vorderen Orients (Islamwissenschaft)", in Ludwig Paul (ed.), Vom Kolonialinstitut zum Asien-Afrika-Institut-100 Jahre Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften in Hamburg, Gossenberg: Ostasienverlag 2008, 128-149
• „Who Said that Love is Forbidden? Gender and Sexuality in Iraqi Public Discourse of the 1970s and 1980s“, in: Pinar Ilkaracan (ed.), Deconstructing Sexuality in the Middle East: Challenges and Discourses, London: Ashgate, 2008, 139-164
• „Opportunities for Masculinity and Love. Cultural Production in Iraq during the 1980s“, in: Lahoucine Ouzgane (ed.), Islamic Masculinities, London: Zed 2006, 184-201
• „Der innere Orient. Orientalismus, Antisemitismus und Geschlecht im Deutschland des 18. bis 20. Jahrhunderts“, in: Die Welt des Islams 45, 3/2005, 370-411
• „Von Kaisers Kleidern. Wechselfälle des Nationalismus im Irak“, in: Kai Hafez und Birgit Schaebler (eds.), Der Irak. Land zwischen Krieg und Frieden, Heidelberg: Palmyra 2003, 172-186
• „Wir und die Anderen. Orientbilder in Deutschland“, in: inamo. Informationsprojekt Naher und Mittlerer Osten 7, 27/2001, 41-44
• „Elfenbeinturm Revisited. Zur Geschichte der Orientalistik im Nationalsozialismus. Das Beispiel der Hamburger Universität“, in: Orient 41, 3/2000, 435-460
• „Israel in den 90ern. Backlash, Queers und Arbeitsmigration“, in: Peripherie
  No. 73-74/1999, 122-139