Curriculum Vitæ Dr Michelangelo Guida Current Academic Position: Office Address: Email: Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Istanbul 29 Mayıs University, Istanbul (Turkey). Department of Political Science and International Relations Istanbul 29 Mayıs University Altunizade Mahallesi İcadiye-Bağlarbaşı cd. No. 40 34662 Üsküdar, İstanbul Turkey mguida@29mayis.edu.tr / ahmetguida@gmail.com PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES March -present Istanbul 29 Mayıs University, Istanbul (Turkey) In he joined a new private university to open the Department of Political Science and International Relations. Sep 2005-March Fatih University, Istanbul (Turkey) Assistant Professor (Yardım Doçent, between March and May ) and as an Associate Professor (Doçent, since May ) at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration. Taught several courses on Turkish politics and society as well as classes on civil society, democracy and political sociology. Erasmus departmental coordinator. Jan-Sep Università degli Studi di Napoli l Orientale, Naples (Italy) Lecturer for the course of Modern Middle Eastern History and taught eight hours in a seminar for the Turkish Language course. RELEVANT EXPERIENCES 1997-2001 Associazione Islamica Zayd ibn Thabit, Naples (Italy) 2002- www.aljazira.it President of Associazione Islamica Zayd ibn Thabit, a Muslim charity that was engaged in the assistance of migrants and in administrating the biggest mosque in Naples. Jun-Nov Collaboration with many translations and original articles to www.aljazira.it, a website dedicated to translations of relevant articles from the Arab press into Italian. Soprintendenza per i beni architettonici e per il paesaggio e per il patrimonio storico, artistico ed etnoantropologico per Napoli e provincia, Naples (Italy). In substitution of the compulsory military service, six months at Naples Superintendency of Architectural, Environmental and Cultural Heritage with
mainly secretarial duties. EDUCATION January Associate Professorship (Doçentlik), Ankara (Turkey) On 28 January, passed the central national exam held by the Universitelerarası Kurulu (Interuniversity Institution) to acquire the nationally recognized title of Associate Professor (Doçent). March Üniversitelerarası Kurul Yabancı Dil Sınavı (ÜDS), Istanbul (Turkey) On 23 March, passed the English Interuniversity Board Foreign Language Examination (ÜDS) in the field of social sciences with 93,750/100. Apr 2005 Università degli Studi di Napoli l Orientale, Naples (Italy) Obtained a PhD with a thesis (in Italian) on the Islamist political thought in the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey since 1909 to 1925. The research mainly focused on four intellectuals (Said Halim Pasa, Musa Kazım, Mehmed Âkif Ersoy and Seyyid Bey) and their political understanding with an analysis of their influence on the deep revolution undergoing in Turkey at that time, their influence on Islamist thought in the broader Middle East and contemporary Islamist thought. Worked on Ottoman and Turkish printed materials mostly in the UK (from February to October 2002, and again between July and August ) and Turkey (from October to April ). The PhD was financed and supervised by the Asian Studies Department and the tutor was Professor Alberto Ventura (then Head of department, and professor of Islamic Studies). A revised version of chapter 6 of the thesis was published on Middle Eastern Studies in March and chapter 3 on İslâm Araştırmaları Dergisi/Turkish Journal of Islamic Studies in June. Oct 2001 Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples (Italy) Scholarship for one-year postgraduate studies abroad from the Faculty of Political Sciences that covered the MA at SOAS. Sep 2002 School of Oriental and African Studies, London (United Kingdom) Master in Turkish Studies. The major was Government and Politics of Turkey; the two minor were Ottoman Language and The History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey. The title of the dissertation was: Turgut Özal and Islamism in Turkey (1983-1993) under the supervision of Professor William Hale. The dissertation aimed to understand the influence of Özal s religious beliefs on his politics. The research was conducted in London and Istanbul with the study of publications and with interviews. A shorter version was reproduced on Hamdard Islamicus in July 2005. The final result was: merit. Jul 2001 IELTS, University of Westminster, London (United Kingdom) Passed the International English Language Testing System exam at the University of Westminster (London). The overall band was 7.0/9.0. Apr-Jun 2001 Contemporary International Studies, London (United Kingdom) International Foundation Course and English Language Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies to improve his English skills. Jul-Nov 1998 Tömer, Istanbul (Turkey) School of Turkish for foreigners, and passed the final exam with 100/100. Jul-Aug 1997 Tömer, Istanbul (Turkey) First two courses of Turkish (Temel bir and Temel iki) thanks to a scholarship granted by Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Michelangelo Guida 03/06/2014 page 2/7
Sep-Nov 1995 Al al-bayt University, Mafraq (Jordan) Two months intensive course of Arabic. Sep 1994-Mar 2001 Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples (Italy) Laurea (corresponding to the British MA) in Political Sciences at the Istituto Universitario Orientale with the final vote of 110/110. The title of the dissertation, defended on 21 March 2001, was Islam e laicismo: due ideologie totalizzanti a confronto nella Repubblica di Turchia (1923-1945) (Islam and Secularism: Two All-Engaging Ideologies in the Turkish Republic (1923-1945)). The major was History and Institutions of Mediterranean Africa and Near East, the tutor Professor Pier Giovanni Donini and the co-tutor Professor Michele Bernardini. Sep 1989-Jul 1994 Liceo-Ginnasio Antonio Genovesi, Naples (Italy) Diploma of secondary school (equivalent to A level) with 48/60. PUBLICATIONS Academic Articles in English 2014 2005 2005 A Communist and Muslim Poet in Contemporary Turkey: the works of İsmet Özel, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 41, No. 1 (January), 117-131. Friendship, kingship and interest: Informal Politics in Turkey and the Example of Vote Mobilization in Istanbul and Şanlıurfa, Alternatives, Vol. 12, No. 4 (Winter), pp. 65-76. Nurettin Topçu: the Reinvention of Islamism in Republican Turkey, Alternatives, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Summer), pp. 15-29. Al-Afghani and Namık Kemal s Replies to Ernest Renan: Two Anti-Westernist Works in the Formative Stage of Islamist Thought, Turkish Journal of Politics, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Winter ). Turkish Islamist Understanding of Democracy: Hayreddin Karaman and Ali Bulaç, Turkish Studies, Vol. 11, No. 3 (September ). Centre-Periphery Divide as a Key to Understand Electoral Choices in Istanbul, with Tülin Tuna, EJEPS, Vol. 2, Number 2 (Winter ), pp. 129-143. Seyyid Bey and the Abolition of the Caliphate Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 44, Number 2 (March ), pp. 275-289. The Sèvres Syndrome and Komplo Theories in Islamist and Secular Press, Turkish Studies, Vol. 9, Number 1 (March ), pp. 37-52. The Life and Political Ideas of Grand Vezir Said Halim Pasha, İslâm Araştırmaları Dergisi/Turkish Journal of Islamic Studies, Vol. 9 (), pp. 101-118. Ali Bulaç: Political Ideas of a Leading Turkish Islamist, Oriente Moderno, Vol. XXIV n.s. (LXXXV), No. 2 (2005), pp. 441-459. Turgut Özal and Islamism in Turkey, Hamdard Islamicus, Vol. XXVIII, No. 3 (July-September 2005), pp. 11-20 and in Quarterly Journal of the Pakistan Historical Society, Vol. LIII, No. 3, (July-September 2005). Turkish Membership in the EU: An Italian Assessment, Insight Turkey, Vol. VI, No. 4 (October- December ), pp. 22-26. Michelangelo Guida 03/06/2014 page 3/7
Academic Articles in Italian and Turkish 2014 La sindrome di Sèvres segna ancora la geopolitica turca (The Sèvres syndrome still influences Turkish geopolitics), Limes, No. 5 (May 2014), pp. 187-194. Erdoğan, l uomo più amato e più odiato della Turchia (Erdoğan, Turkey s most loved and hated man), Limes, No. 6 (July ), pp. 29-34. Islam and democratizzazione in Turchia. Il caso dell AK Parti (Islam and Democratization in Turkey. The example of AK Parti), Rivista di Politica, Vol. 2 (April-June ), pp. 71-85. Türkiye'de Partilerin Oy Toplama Stratejileri ve Seçmen Davranışına Etkisi: Yerel Seçimleri İstanbul Örneği (Turkish Political Parties Vote Mobilization Strategies and Its Influence on Voters Behaviours: The Example of Istanbul Local Elections), with Ömer Çaha, Liberal Düşünce Dergisi, Vol. 16, No. 61-62 (April ), pp. 167-168. I partiti musulmani nella Turchia Repubblicana (Muslim Parties in the Turkish Republic), Diritto e Libertà, Roma, Vol. 12, pp. 166-183. İstanbul'da Seçmen Tercihlerini Etkileyen Faktör olarak Din (Religion as an Influential Factor on Istanbul s Voters), with Tülin Tuna, in Prof. Dr. Sacit Adalı'ya 65. Yaş Armağanı, Filiz Yay., pp. 168-178 İstanbul da Seçmen Tercihlerini Anlamada Bir Anahtar Olarak Toplumsal Farklılıklar (Social cleavages as a key to understand voters behaviours in Istanbul), with Tülin Tuna, Akademik Araştırmalar Dergisi/Journal of Academic Studies, Vol. 12, No. 44 (February-April ), pp. 45-62. II. Meşrutiyet Dönemindeki İslâmcılık Düşüncesi ve Buna Bir Örnek Teşkil Etmesi Açısından Said Halim Paşa (Said Halim Paşa as an Example of Islamist Ideas in the Second Constitutional Period), Civilacademy, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Summer ), pp. 109-117. La Turchia a una svolta storica. La democrazia alla prova (Turkey at a Turning Point. Democracy on Trial), Giano, No. 56 (), pp. 127-134. Democratizzazione e instabilità politica. Il caso della Turchia (Democratization and political instability. The Turkish case), Meridione, Sud e Nord del Mondo, Vol. VI, No. 1 (), pp. 114-135. Turchia, il modello instabile (Turkey, the instable model), Giano, No. 53 (), pp. 69-76. 2002 2001 Sta cambiando il sistema politico in Turchia? Le elezioni locali del 28 marzo (Is the Turkish Political System Changing? 28 March Local Elections), OltreMare, Vol. II, No. 1 (aprile ). Intervista con Rašid Gannuši (Interview with Rachid Gannouchi), Oriente Moderno, Vol. XXIII n.s. (LXXXIV), No. 3 (), pp. 685-696. I musulmani e la War on Terror (Muslims and the War on Terror), I molti volti dell Islam, published as insert of Guerra & Pace, No. 103-104 (Oct-Nov ), pp. 66-7. La reazione della Turchia all 11 settembre (The Reaction to 9/11 in Turkey), in Francesca M. Corrao (edited by), L Islam e l 11 settembre. Le opinioni e l informazione, published as insert to Giano, No. 43 (), pp. 54-60. La Turchia tra integralismo islamico e pragmatismo politico (Turkey between Islamism and Political Pragmatism), Giano, No. 42 (2002), pp. 145-50. Il laicismo turco e i movimenti islamici ( Turkish Secularism and Islamic Movements), Giano, No. 39 (September-December 2001), pp. 229-32. Book and book chapters Michelangelo Guida 03/06/2014 page 4/7
2014 Feudal Control of Politics in Peripheral Turkey: the Example of the Şanlıurfa Province in Andrea Teti, Luca Anceschi and Gennaro Gervasio (eds.), Hidden Geographies (London-New York: Routledge). Ömer Çaha ve Michelangelo Guida, İslamcılık (Islamism), in Ömer Çaha ve Bican Şahin (eds.), Siyasal İdeolojiler (Ankara: Orion). The Founders of Islamism in Republican Turkey: Kısakürek and Topçu in Mohammed Bamyeh (ed.), The Social Role of Intellectuals in the Middle East (London: I. B. Tauris). Ömer Çaha ve Michelangelo Guida, Türkiye de Seçim Kampanyaları (Electoral Campaigns in Turkey) (Ankara, Orion). Book Reviews 2001 1996 Merve Kavakci Islam, Headscarf Politics in Turkey, A Postcolonial Reading, Palgrave Macmillan, New York,, Insight Turkey, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 216-218. Michael Bonner, Jihad in Islamic History: Doctrine and Practices, Princeton University Press, Princeton,, İslâm Araştırmaları Dergisi/Turkish Journal of Islamic Studies, No. 21,, pp. 132-134 (in English). Armando Salvatore and Dale F. Eickelman (eds.), Public Islam and the Common Good, Brill, Leiden- Boston,, İslâm Araştırmaları Dergisi/Turkish Journal of Islamic Studies, No. 17,, pp. 157-160 (in English). Atilla Akar, Kamikaze Operasyonu, 11 Eylül ün Gerçek Romanı, Timaş, İstanbul, Oriente Moderno, XXV n.s. (LXXXVI), 2,, pp. 435-437 (in Italian). Tommy Franks, American Soldier, Regan Books, New York, Text, V, 1, Summer, pp. 57-60 (in English). Jason Burke, Al-Qaeda, Casting a Shadow of Terror, IB Tauris, London-New York, EuropaMondo, No. 5 (December ), pp. 26-29 (in Italian). A. Holly Shissler, Between Two Empires, Ahmet Agaoglu and the New Turkey, I.B. Tauris, London- New York and Philip Robins, Suits and Uniforms, Turkish Foreign Policy since the Cold War, Hurst & Company, London, Oriente Moderno, Vol. XXIII n.s. (LXXXIV), No. 3,, pp. 768-71 (in Italian). Andrea Addobbati (a cura di), Islam e Occidente. La storia e il mondo che cambia, Edizioni Plus- Università di Pisa, Pisa and Paolo Branca, Moschee inquiete. Tradizionalisti, innovatori, fondamentalisti nella cultura islamica, Il Mulino, Bologna, Il mestiere di storico, annale V/, pp. 78, 139 (in Italian). Antonello Biagini, Storia della Turchia contemporanea, Bompiani, Milano, Il mestiere di storico, annale IV/ (in Italian). Tariq Ramadan, To Be an European Muslim, The Islamic Foundation, Leicester 1999, Oriente Moderno, Vol. XX, No. 2-3 (2001), pp. 473-4 (in Italian). Sergio Noja (ed.), Tabari, I profeti e i re, Guanda, Parma 1993, Annali dell Istituto Universitario Orientale, Vol. 56, No. 3 (1996), pp. 425-6 (in Italian). Proceedings Michelangelo Guida, The Political Geography of Üsküdar, Uluslararası Üsküdar Sempozyumu VI, (Istanbul, ), Uluslararası Üsküdar Sempozyumu VI, pp. 331-348. Translations Michelangelo Guida 03/06/2014 page 5/7
M. Fethullah Gülen, Verso una civiltà globale fondata sull amore e la tolleranza (New Jersey: Tughra, ). Translation of the book M. Fethullah Gülen, Toward a Global Civilization of Love and Tolerance (New Jersey: The Light, ). Other Publications Newspaper comment Avro yu titreten çirçir böcekleri (The Crickets that Shake the Euro), Zaman (17 April ) http://www.zaman.com.tr/yorum_euroyu-titreten-circir-bocekleri_2079062.html (in Turkish). De Amicis's Costantinople and Today's Istanbul, Journal of Academic Studies/Akademik Araştırmalar Dergisi, Vol. 12, No. 47-48, November -April, pp. 225-237 (in English). Newspaper comment Seçimlere giderken Berlusconi İtalya'sı (Berlusconi s Italy Toward the Elections), Zaman (6 June ) http://www.zaman.com.tr/haber.do?haberno=855787&keyfield=4755494441 (in Turkish). Glossary and the charts of the book: Pier Giovanni Donini, Il mondo islamico, breve storia dal Cinquecento ad oggi, Laterza, Bari (in Italian). CONFERENCE PAPERS Gli islamisti turchi e l Unione Europea: una storia di odio, amore e disincanto (XI Convegno della Società per gli Studi del Medio Oriente, Pavia University, Pavia, Italy, 17-19 September). Turkish Islamist Movement as a Model for Arab Islamism? (Islamism and the Arab Revolutions: Dynamics of Change, Cairo Univesity, 11-12 February ). Nurettin Topçu and Necip Fazıl Kısakürek: stories of conversion and activism in Republican Turkey (Biografies of Religious Engagement, Department of Religious Studies, University of Cape Town, Stellenbosch, 10-12 October). Friendship, kingship and interest. Informal politics in Turkey and the example of elections in Istanbul and Şanlıurfa (Twelfth Mediterranean Research Meeting, Mediterranean Programme of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute, Montecatini Terme, Italy, 6-9 April). Michelangelo Guida: Nurettin Topçu and the Reinvention of Islamism in Republican Turkey, (Intellectuals in the Middle East, British Society for Middle Eastern Studies and British Academy, Birkbeck College, London, UK, 24 September) The Founders of Islamism in Republican Turkey (Where are the Intellectuals? Culture, Identity and Community in the Modern Middle East, British Society for Middle Eastern Studies and Centre for Advanced Study of the Arab World, CASAW, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, 7-9 May ). With Tülin Tuna İstanbul da Seçmen Tercihlerini Etkileyen Faktör olarak Din (11. Ulusal Sosyal Bilimler Kongresi, Türk Sosyal Bilimler Derneği/Turkish Social Sciences Association, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 10 December). Feudal Control of Politics: the Example of the Şanlıurfa Province (Tenth Mediterranean Research Meeting, Mediterranean Programme of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute, Montecatini Terme, Italy, 25-28 March). The Political Geography of Üsküdar (Uluslararası Üsküdar Sempozyumu VI, Üsküdar Belediyesi, İstanbul, Turkey, 6-9 November). Turkish Islamists Understanding of Democracy (2 nd Global International Studies Conference, World International Studies Committee, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 23-26 July). II. Meşrutiyet Dönemindeki İslâmcılık Düşüncesi ve Buna Bir Örnek Teşkil Etmesi Açısından Said Halim Paşa (100. Yılında II. Meşrutiyet, Meşrutiyet Aydınlarının Din Algısı, İSAM İslâm Araştırma Merkezi, İstanbul, Turkey, 16 July). The Founders of Islamism in Republican Turkey: Kısakürek and Topçu (Ninth Mediterranean Research Meeting, Mediterranean Programme of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute, Montecatini Terme, Italy, 12-15 March). Michelangelo Guida 03/06/2014 page 6/7
Sèvres Syndrome and Komplo Theories in Contemporary Turkish Intellectuals (XXX. Deutscher Orientalistentag, Albert Ludwigs Universität, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, 24-28 September). The Turkish Islamist Media in the Era of the War on Terror between the Sèvres Syndrome and Komplo Theories (Muslim Media and the War on Terror, Department of Politics, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK, 6-7 July). INVITED SEMINARS Identity Politics in Istanbul: electoral behaviour in the Turkish megalopolis, Seminars on Turkey, School of Oriental and African Studies & Modern Turkish Studies Programme, London, UK, 12 March. RESEARCH PROJECTS Albanian Political Elites in Post-Communist Era, Fatih University Research Fund, Project number P51031201_Y, from 15 August to 15 March, Head of the project. Amount: 12,000 TL. How Democracy Shapes Islamist Ideology, Fatih University Research Fund, Project number P51151101_B, from 1 April to 15 March, Head of the project. Amount: 4,500 TL. Early Turkish Islamism and the French Influences, Fatih University Research Fund, Project number P51151002, from 1 Jannuary to 30 June, Head of the project. Amount: 5,750 TL. Türkiye de Siyasal Partilerin Oy Toplama Stratejileri ve Seçmen Davranışına Etkisi: Yerel Seçimleri İstanbul Örneği (Political Parties Strategies to Mobilize Votes and its Effects on Voting Behaviours in Turkey: the Local Elections in İstanbul), TÜBİTAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey), from February to February, Researcher (Head of the project Professor Ömer Çaha). Amount: 24,250 TL. Tribes and Politics: Şanlıurfa Example, Fatih University Research Fund, Project number P51030802-2, from July to December, Head of the project. Amount: 3,000 TL. Seçmen Davranışları, Gaziosmanpaşa ve Üsküdar Örnek Olayı (Electoral Behaviours: Gaziosmanpaşa ve Üsküdar Examples), Fatih University Research Fund, Project number P51030801-2, from July to December, Head of the project. Amount: 7,000 TL. Michelangelo Guida 03/06/2014 page 7/7