May 17, 2012
Michael Thumann
Fellowship
- Status
- Past Fellow
- Year
- 2010
Biography
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Michael Thumann has joined the Transatlantic Academy as a Bosch Public Policy Fellow for the month of January. During his stay at the Academy he will be working on the issue of changing political elites in Turkey and the Russia-Turkey relationship.
An experienced journalist and author, he is the chief editor for the Middle East of Die Zeit. Based in Istanbul, he covers the Arab Middle East, Turkey, Central Asia. Prior to his posting in Istanbul, he served as Die Zeit’s Foreign Editor from 2001-2007, and as the Moscow correspondent of Die Zeit from 1996-2001, reporting on Russia’s relations with the Islamic populations of the Caucasus and Central Asia. He has also served as the political editor of Die Zeit on southeastern Europe. He studied at the Free University, Berlin, Columbia University and the Leningrad State University and was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
His books include:
Der Islam und der Westen, Berliner Taschenbuch-Verlag, 2003
Land ohne Unterleib, in: Russland und der Kaukasus (Fischer-Weltalmanach 2005)
La puissance russe. Un puzzle à reconstituer?, Paris, 2003
Das Lied von der russischen Erde. Moskaus Ringen um Einheit und Größe, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart/München 2002;
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