Mag. Dr. Thomas Schmidinger

Lecturer at the Institute for Political Science with a focus on the Middle East, Political Islam, Religion and Politics, Iraq, Kurdistan, Sudan, Anti-Semitism and Migration.
In addition to the University of Vienna, Thomas Schmidinger also teaches as an associate professor at the University of Kurdistan Hewlêr (UKH) in Iraq and as a lecturer at the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences in Linz in the field of social work. He is co-editor of the Vienna Yearbook for Kurdish Studies, Secretary General of the Austrian Society for the Promotion of Kurdology / European Center for Kurdish Studies and member of several scientific societies.
His publications include:
-Rojava: Revolution, War, and the Future of Syria´s Kurds
London, 2018
- The Battle for the Mountain of the Kurds. Self-Determination and Ethnic Cleansing in the Afrin Region of Rojava.
Oakland, 2019
- The World has forgotten us. Sinjar and the Islamic State´s Genocide of the Yezidis.
London, 2022
- Embedded Research and Political Violence: Kurdish Studies in Conflict Areas
in: Baser, Bahar Baser / Toivanen, Mari / Zorlu, Begum Zorlu (Hg.):
Methodological Approaches in Kurdish Studies
Lanham, 2019
pp. 219 – 234
- Self-Determination, Federalism and Autonomy in the Middle-East
in: Akbulut, Olgun / Aktoprak, Elçin (Hg.): Minority Self-Government in Europe and the Middle East. From Theory to Practice
Leiden/Boston, 2019
pp. 183 – 200
- „The World Forgot Us and Europe Doesn´t Want Us”: The Situation of Yazidi, Christian, and Babawat Internally Displaced Persons and Refugees from Sinjar after the Genocide of 2014
in: Babar, Zahra (ed.): Mobility and Forced Displacement in the Middle East
London, 2020
pp. 215 – 237
- Christians in North Syria: Syriacs, Assyrians, Armenians and Kurdish converts.
in: Schmidinger, Thomas (ed.): The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria. Between a Roch and a Hard Place.
London, 2020
pp. 35 – 54

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