Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
Primary Phone: +447800556068
Top Floor Flat
5 Hornsey Lane Gardens
London
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United Kingdom
ABOUT
Thanos Petouris is currently writing up his thesis on South Yemeni national identity. He is researching the nationalist, anti-colonial movement in South Arabia and the subsequent decolonisation process from British rule in the years 1937-67. The theoretical focus of his thesis is to explain the emergence of national identities during periods of decolonisation, by using South Yemen as the historical case study. What makes this paradigm particularly relevant, is the ways in which South Yemeni identity is being employed in current Yemeni affairs as a way of politicising the grievances of the Southern Movement.
He spent his fieldwork year in both Yemen and Egypt, where he interviewed former Yemeni politicians, and members of the main southern nationalist movements (NLF, FLOSY, SAL), and conducted research in local archives. He is a regular contributor at the Chatham House Yemen Forum. He has been visiting Yemen since 2005, having lived in the past as an English teacher in Aden.
Discipline
Political Science
Sub Areas
Colonialism
19th-21st Centuries
Current Events
Gender/Women's Studies
Gulf Studies
Identity/Representation
Middle East/Near East Studies
Nationalism
State Formation
Historiography
Arab Studies
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Foreign Relations
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Arabian Peninsula
Yemen
Arab States
Gulf
Specialties
Yemeni Politics
South Arabian Decolonisation
South Yemeni Nationalism/Identity
Languages
Greek (native)
English (fluent)
German (fluent)
French (advanced)
Arabic (intermediate)
Latin (intermediate)
Education
MS
| 2005
| Middle East Politics
| SOAS University of London
BA
| 2002
| Germanistik
| University of Athens
Abstracts
Superpower responses to Regional Challenges: Nasser's role, and Britain in South Arabia
Southern Yemen after the Saudi Intervention: Political and Social Change
