Dr. Tareq Sydiq

Office hours can be scheduled individually via Email.

The office entrance is in Bunsenstraße 2, on the ground floor, to the left of the main entrance.

 The mailing address is Ketzerbach 11, 35032 Marburg.

authoritarian statehood

political participation

social movement studies

resistance studies

regional focus: MENA and Eastern Asia

Winter Term 2025/26: Resistance to Autocratization: Media, Politics, Society (mit Alena Strohmaier)

Winter Term 2019/20: Political legitimacy in the Middle East and the Arab Spring

Winter Term 2018/19: Study trip Law, Justice and social conflikt: Learning out of the NSU-trial? (with Maria Ketzmerick)

Winter Term 2018/19: Contemporary Political and Social theories beyond the European canon (with Maria Ketzmerick)

Summer Term 2018: Protest, Resistance, Collective Action

Winter Term 2017/18: Political legitimacy in the Middle East and the Arab Spring

Summer Term 2017: Resistance,  Collective Action and Revolution

Winter Term 16/17: Political legitimacy in the Middle East and the Arab Spring

2024–2027: Principal Investigator on the DFG-funded project “Protest Movements in Transitional Phases from Uprising to Consolidation of Successful Rebels: The AFPRO Dataset.”

Since 2022: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Conflict Studies. Coordinator of the BMBF funded research network “Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict”.

2019 - 2020: JSPS Fellowship with the Center for Relational Studies on Global Crises at Chiba University, Japan

2016 - 2021: Research fellow at the Center for Conflict Studies. Conducted PhD on political participation under authoritarianism in Iran.

2016 - 2017 editor of the journal for peace and conflict studies (Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, ZeFKo) of the Center for Conflict Studies

2014 - 2015: MSc State, Society and Development at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London.

2010 - 2014: Studied political science and sociology at the LMU Munich and Kansas State University, Manhattan.

Papers:

Pellicer, M. & Sydiq, T. (2026). Political Mobilization in Arab Countries: Grievances, Efficacy, and Identity. In: El Kurd, D. (eds.), Handbook on Authoritarianism in the Arab World (). Bloomsbury Publishing London.

Anderl, F., Grimm, J. J., Schreieder, N. M., Steinhilper, E. & Sydiq, T. (2025). All Eyes on Gaza / Zusammen für Gaza. Profil der Solidaritätsproteste am 27. September 2025. ipb working paper 2/2025. Berlin: Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung.

Bonacker, T. & Sydiq, T. (2025). Looking beyond Peace and Conflict Studies: The Global South(s) in other Disciplines. In: Tripathi, S. & Richter, S. (eds.), The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies. Perspectives from the Global South (pp. 39-57). Bloomsbury Publishing London.

Sydiq, T. (2024). Wissensproduktion zum Iran im Kontext der Proteste 2022: Ein Dilemma der Protestforschung. Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen, 37(4), 583-593.

Sydiq, T. (2024). Die neue Protestkultur. Besetzen, kleben, streiken: Der Kampf um die Zukunft. Hanserblau, Berlin.

Sydiq, T. (2024). Book Review: Abrams, Benjamin. 2023. The Rise of the Masses: Spontaneous Mobilization and Contentious Politics. Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft, 18, 127–130.

Sydiq, T. (2023). Competing to Govern: Opportunities and regime responsiveness to civilian protests during the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan. In: Alijla, A. & Fraihat, I. (eds) Rebel Governance in the Middle East. Palgrave Macmillan.

Sydiq, T. (2023). Exploring transterranean activism as a research site beyond local protest sites. /Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space[1], 0(0)/, 1-17.

Sydiq, T. (2023). Entgrenzung von Gewalt in autoritärer Herrschaft. /Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen[2]/, /36/(2), 269-282. 

Ketzmerick, M., & Sydiq, T. (2022). Europa dezentralisieren als Strategie–Was bedeutet „nicht-westlich “in der und für die Friedens-und Konfliktforschung?. /Zeitschrift für Friedens-und Konfliktforschung[3]/, 165–182.

Sydiq, T. (2022). Youth Protests or Protest Generations? Conceptualizing Differences between Iran’s Contentious Ruptures in the Context of the December 2017 to November 2019 Protests. Middle East Critique, 31(3), 201-219.

Sydiq, T. (2022). Autoritäre Interessenaushandlung: Wie Iraner*innen Politik innerhalb autoritärer Rahmenbedingungen gestalten. Springer VS, Wiesbaden.

Sydiq, T., & Ketzmerick, M. (2022). Decentralising Europe: Harnessing Alternative Theories of IR. In Non-Western Global Theories of International Relations (pp. 19-42). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.

Sydiq, T., & Tekath, M. (2022). Youth as generational configurations: Conceptualising conflicts along generation-based dynamics. Peacebuilding, 10(1), 51-65.

Bonacker, T., Sydiq, T. (2021): The International and the Construction of Opposition in Iran. In: Ouaissa R., Pannewick F., Strohmaier A. (eds) Re-Configurations. Politik und Gesellschaft des Nahen Ostens. Springer VS, Wiesbaden.

Sydiq, T. (2020): Vom Protest- Zum Quarantänejahr: Neue Arenen Der Konfliktaushandlung. Zeitschrift Für Friedens- Und Konfliktforschung.

Soudias, D. & Sydiq, T. (2020): Theorizing the Spatiality of Protest. Special Issue in Contention: The Multidiscplinary Journal of Social Protest.

Sydiq, T. (2020): Asymmetries of Spatial Contestations. Controlling Protest Spaces and Coalition-Building during the Iranian December 2017 Protests, in: Soudias, D. & Sydiq, T. (2020): Theorizing the Spatiality of Protest. Special Section in Contention: The Multidiscplinary Journal of Social Protest.

Ciftci, S., Nawaz, M. A., & Sydiq, T. (2016). Globalization, Contact, and Religious Identity: A Cross‐National Analysis of Interreligious Favorability. Social Science Quarterly.