Researchers
Visiting Research Fellow
Middle East / Central Asia

Kazakhstan | Kyrgyzstan | Turkmenistan | Iraq | Jordan | Lebanon | Syria | United Arab Emirates | Yemen | North Yemen | Iran | Turkey
Kazakhstan
| Name | Term | Research Theme | Home Institution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gera Kim | 2008/5/31-2008/10/30 | Ethnic Entrepreneurship of Koreans in the USSR and post Soviet Central Asia |
Professor, Head of the Department of Korean Studies, Kazakh National University |
| Gaisina Sholpan Kuanishbekovna | 2006/4/14-2006/10/12 | Rural Financial Infrastructure |
Professor of Pavlodar University, Economic Department Pevlodar University,M.Gorky 102/4,637000 |
Kyrgyzstan
| Name | Term | Research Theme | Home Institution |
|---|---|---|---|
| TOHTOHODJAEVA, Zamira | 1997/6/11-1997/9/10 | Employment and Economic Development of Kyrgyztan: Analysis, Forecast, Policy | The Second Secretary, Department of International Organizations, Ministry of Foreigh Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic |
Turkmenistan
| Name | Term | Research Theme | Home Institution |
|---|---|---|---|
| BADYKOVA, Khametovna Najia | 1998/5/26-1998/8/25 | The Inpact of Foreign Investment Policies on the Opportunities for Attracting Japan's Capital to Turkmenistan and Other Central Asian Countries | Director, Investment Policy and Foreign Economic Relation Division, National Institute on Statistics and Forecasting of Turkmenistan |
Iraq
| Name | Term | Research Theme | Home Institution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emad Mohammad Ali Abdullatif |
2007/8/25-2008/4/25 | Development of Government Bonds Market in Iraq(Application of Japan's Experiences to Iraq) |
Assistant professor, Baghdad University-College of Administration & Economics |
Jordan
| Name | Term | Research Theme | Home Institution |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUTLU, Servet | 1987/6/5-1987/8/28 | The Japanese Experience in the Reduction in Interregional per Capita Income Disparities and the Lessons It May Hold in the Design of Regional Policies in Developing Countries | Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Yarmouk University |
| BARHOUM, Mohammad Issa | 1981/6/11-1981/9/12 | Modernization of the Arab World | Associate Professor, Sociology Department, The University of Jordan |
Lebanon
| Name | Term | Research Theme | Home Institution |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAHER, Massoud A. | 1993/7/14-1993/11/13 | Modernization in Japan and the Future; The Arab-Japanese Relations | Professor, Human Sciences Department of History, Lebanese University |
| DAHER, Massoud A. | 1989/9/6-1990/7/5 | The Socio-Economic Change of Lebanese Society from the Independence the Present Time | Professor, Humanities Faculty, Lebanese University |
| FAWAZ, Adnan I. | 1980/5/19-1980/9/30 | A Study of the Japanese Political System and of Japanese-Arab Relations | Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Beirut University College |
| MIKDASHI, Zuhayr | 1972/7/5-1972/8/31 | Petroleum in the Middle East | Associate Professor of Business Administration, American University of Beirut |
Syria
| Name | Term | Research Theme | Home Institution |
|---|---|---|---|
| HANNA, Abdullah Faiz | 1988/5/25-1988/10/31 | New Research on the Economic, Social and Intellectual History of the Arab East in the First Half of the Twentieth Century | Researcher, The General Union of Workers |
United Arab Emirates
| Name | Term | Research Theme | Home Institution |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHIKARA, Ahmad Abdul Razzaq | 1994/7/20-1994/8/13 | Japan-Arab Relations: A Comprehensive Approach of Foreign Policy 1990's-2000 | Associate Professor, Political Science Department, College of Economic and Administration, U.A.E. University |
Yemen
| Name | Term | Research Theme | Home Institution |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTHMAN, Abdo Ali | 2000/4/1-2000/6/30 | Technology and Social Change within a Social Setup in Yemen | Professor, Department of Sociology, Sanaa University |
North Yemen
| Name | Term | Research Theme | Home Institution |
|---|---|---|---|
| AL-SAQQAF, Abdulaziz Yassin | 1988/6/22-1988/9/21 | Introducing Japanese Resource Mobiliaztion Techniques to the Yemeni Local Municipal Development Councils | Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, Sanaa University |
Iran
| Name | Term | Research Theme | Home Institution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saeed KHATIBZADEH | 2005/9/29-2005/12/28 | New Trends of Iran's Economic Diplomacy: An Analytical Assessment of Trade and Economic Cooperation between Iran and Asian Countries as Japan, China and South Korea |
Editor of the Iranian Journal of International Affairs and Deputy Head of Center for Asia and Pacific Studies, Institute for Political and International Studies(IPIS) |
Turkey
| Name | Term | Research Theme | Home Institution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cemal Atici | 2010/05/26-2010/11/25 | Trade Liberalization and Environmental Interaction in Japan and ASEAN : An Extended Environmental Kuznets Curve with Panel Data | Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Adnan Menderes University |
| Ibrahim Ozturk | 2004/10/1-2005/3/1 | Learning from a decade of failure in CIS region:Towards the reconstruction by increasing the efficiency of Japan's ODA credits in reform and institution building | Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Marmara University |
| AYDA, Eraydin | 1998/8/4-1998/11/3 | Enabling Capacity of Urban and Housing Policies for a Livable Urban Environment: A Comparison of Japan and Turkey | Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, Middle East Technical University |
| KALAYCIOGLU, Sema Wacer | 1995/11/1-1996/1/31 | The "Tariff and Non-Tariff" Barriers to Services Trade in Japan and the Intra-Industry Nature of the Services Trade in the Japanese Economy | Professor of Economics and Director, Institute of Social Sciences, Yildiz Technical University |
| GEDIK, Ayse | 1993/3/9-1993/9/8 | Changes in Urban System and Migratory Patterns in 1980's and 90's and Possible Future Developments in Japan: Implication for Turkey and other Developing Countries | Associate Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, Faculty of Architecture, Middle East Technical University |
| SENSES, Fikret | 1990/7/1-1990/9/30 | Reflections on Turkish Industrialization and Manufactured Export Growth in Light of Japanese Experience: In Retrospect and Prospect | Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Middle East Technical University |
| KELES, Rusen | 1987/11/15-1988/9/7 | The Economic, Social and Political Rationality of Slum Formation in Developing Countries with Special Reference to Turkey and the Middle East | Professor and Director, The Center for Urban Studies, Faculty of Political Science, Ankara University |







