The Doha Institute Board of Trustees (BoT) presided by Dr Azmi Bishara, chair of Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (DI), has appointed Dr Abdelwahab El Affendi as acting president of DI, succeeding Dr Yasir Suleiman Malley.
Dr El Affendi thanked BoT for honouring him with the new mission, which comes during a critical period of global health crisis and praised the performance led by Dr Azmi Bishara and his predecessor Dr Malley.
He also thanked the Qatari leadership and people for providing support and resources, affirming that the institute will double its efforts during the coming period to fulfill its mission towards serving Qatar, its people and its institutions, the Arab nation as well as the international scientific community.
Pointing out that DI will continue to make distinguished contributions with the rest of Qatar's Higher Education Institutions to developing social sciences and humanities, graduating qualified generations of researchers and professionals, and reinforcing the Institute’s position as one of the many positive contributions that Qatar makes to the world.
Dr El Affendi has held the position of dean of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at DI since 2017. Before that, he served as head of the Politics and International Relations Programme at DI (2015-2017).
Dr El Affendi holds a PhD in Political Science from Reading University, UK. He has a Master’s Degree in Philosophy from Swansea, University of Wales, UK; and a Bachelor Degree in Philosophy from the University of Khartoum, Sudan.
Dr El Affendi worked as coordinator of the Democracy and Islam Programme at the University of Westminster (since 1998). He also held the position as diplomat in the Sudanese Foreign Ministry (1990-1997), a London-based journalist including editor or managing editor of several publications (1982-1990).
Dr El Affendi was a visiting fellow/professor at the Christian Michelsen Institute (Bergen, Norway), and the Universities of Northwestern (Chicago), Oxford, Cambridge, and the International Institute of Islamic Thought and CiviliSation (Malaysia). He has delivered keynote speeches and lectures at most major universities in the US, UK and a number of universities in Asia, Africa and South America.
In addition to teaching, Dr El Affendi has completed many research studies, books in Arabic and English in the field of critical theories of democracy and democratic transformation, contemporary Islamic thought and modern Islamic movements, politics and society in Sudan and the Arab world, mass violence, extermination and others.
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