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Hager Ali
Born
Frankfurt/Main
NationalityGerman
Occupation(s)research fellow, university lecturer, freelance journalist
Academic background
EducationGoethe-University Frankfurt,
Central European University Budapest
Alma materUniversity of Hamburg, Germany
Academic work
DisciplinePolitical science
Sub-disciplineCivil-military relations in authoritarian regimes
InstitutionsGerman Institute for Global and Area Studies, Hamburg
WebsiteOfficial webpage at GIGA-Institute

Hager Ali (Arabic: هاجر علي‎) is a German political scientist, university lecturer and freelance journalist. As research fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) in Hamburg and freelance journalist, she has published articles on her research focusing on civil-military relations in authoritarian regimes in the Middle East and North Africa. She also communicates her research in German and international media, as well as in public events.

Life and career

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Ali was born and raised in Frankfurt/Main the daughter of Egyptian parents. In addition to her two mother tongues, German and Arabic, she also speaks English and French. After graduating with a B.A. in political science and sociology from the Goethe University in Frankfurt in 2016, she earned an M.A. in political science at the Central European University in Budapest.

Since October 2018, she has been working as a research fellow with the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) in Hamburg. The GIGA is an international research institute committed to a global approach and conducting research in the fields of comparative area studies on Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, as well as on global social and political developments.[1] Among others, the GIGA advises the German Foreign Office and other parts of the German federal government.

Ali is also a doctoral candidate at the University of Hamburg, preparing her PhD thesis titled "Praetorianism in the MENA-Region. Military Governance and Civilian Control across Regime Types". Her main fields of research and publications are the political and security situation in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as in Sahel countries like Sudan and in Afghanistan.[2]

Research in political science

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Her research is focused on civil-military relations in West Asia and North Africa, in particular on military coups and civilian control in authoritarian regimes, on regime stability, as well as electoral systems and party politics in these countries. Another focus of her research are the international operations of the German defence forces in West Asia and the Sahel. Among others, she has published articles for the academic journals Africa Spectrum and the German Journal of Comparative Politics, discussing the actions of the Sudanese military since the 2019 Sudanese coup d'état and the electoral reforms in Tunisia.[3]

Since March 2022, she has acted as external editor and author for the online publication The Loop of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR).[4] At the ECPR 2023 conference at Charles University in Prague, she presented a paper titled "Autocracies with Adjectives: The Need for Better Classifications of Autocratic Regimes".[5]

Journalism

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Since September 2010, Ali has been writing as a freelance journalist for various German and international media. Based on her research on the civil war in Sudan, she has published articles for the German daily Der Tagesspiegel[6] and for the English edition of Al Jazeera,[7] among others. Further, she was interviewed about current political crises in Sudan, Libya, Algeria and Niger for German TV and online magazines including the Tagesschau,[8] Deutsche Welle,[9][10] Qantara[11] and the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation.[12] She has also participated in public panel discussions about military coups in Africa.[13]

Academic teaching

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In 2023, she taught a seminar in the political science department at the University of Hamburg on the emergence, impact and collapse of hybrid and autocratic regimes. The same year, she lectured on public science and communication research at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at this university. The aim of the course was to communicate scientific research to political interest groups and the general public by academic authors.[14]

Professional memberships

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Selected publications

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References

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  1. ^ "Research & Transfer". www.giga-hamburg.de. Retrieved 2024-01-08.
  2. ^ a b "Hager Ali". www.giga-hamburg.de. German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA). Retrieved 2024-01-02.
  3. ^ Hager Ali / Salah Ben Hammou / Jonathan Powell (2022). "Between Coups and Election: Constitutional Engineering and Military Entrenchment in Sudan". Africa Spectrum. German Institute for Global and Area Studies. Retrieved 2023-12-30.
  4. ^ Hager Ali (2022-05-06). "Autocracies with adjectives: we need better typologies of authoritarian regimes". Retrieved 2023-12-30.
  5. ^ "Autocracies with Adjectives: The Need for Better Classifications of Autocratic Regimes". ecpr.eu. Retrieved 2024-01-04.
  6. ^ "Machtkampf im Sudan: Wird der Konflikt zum Flächenbrand in Afrika?". Der Tagesspiegel Online (in German). ISSN 1865-2263. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
  7. ^ Hager Ali (2023-05-18). "The Sudan crisis: A power struggle by design". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2023-12-30.
  8. ^ Vera Rudolph. "Konflikt im Sudan: Wie ausländische Mächte mitmischen" (in German). Retrieved 2023-12-30.
  9. ^ Kerstin Knipp. "Libya's unstable decade after Moammar Gadhafi's death – DW – 10/20/2021". Deutsche Welle. Retrieved 2023-12-30.
  10. ^ Kerstin Knipp. "Algeria faces political dilemma over Niger coup – DW – 08/09/2023". Deutsche Welle. Retrieved 2023-12-30.
  11. ^ Schaer, Cathrin (2023-12-11). "Sudan crisis: Sudan crisis deepens as RSF violence against civilians increases". qantara.de. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
  12. ^ Matthias Kündig (2023-07-16). "In Sudan bekämpfen sich zwei gleichwertige Armeen - Echo der Zeit - SRF" (in German). Retrieved 2023-12-31.
  13. ^ GIGA Forum (2023-12-06). "Done With Democracy? How Military Coups Have Changed Africa's Political Landscape". German Institute for Global and Area Studies. Retrieved 2023-12-31.
  14. ^ "Done With Democracy? How Military Coups Have Changed Africa's Political Landscape". www.giga-hamburg.de. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
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