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Oleksandr Bogomolov

Oleksandr  Bogomolov

director of NISS

 

 LANGUAGES SKILLS

  • native / professional: Ukrainian, Russian Arabic, English (written translation / interpretation skills, including simultaneous interpretation)
  • fluency in Persian
  • reading, basic communication - Hebrew, Spanish, French, German

 

EDUCATION / SCIENTIFIC DEGREES

  • Dr.Sc. (Philology) (Arabic Linguistics, Political Linguistics) (2020) Taras Shevchenko National University
  • Ph.D. (Philology) (Arabic Dialectology) (1992) Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation
  • Higher Education: orientalist-philologist (Arabic language and literature) (1980-1986) St. Petersburg State University (LSU), Oriental Faculty, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Academic positions:

  • Director of A. Krymskyi Institute of Oriental Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (January 1, 2014 - September 17, 2021)
  • Head of the Department of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (September 1999 - June 2001) Kyiv Institute of Oriental Linguistics and Law
  • Head of the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Civilizations (September 1998 - June 1999) Kyiv National Linguistic University

 

Professional experience in the Middle East

  • In the 1980s and 1990s he was on long-term business trips abroad in the Middle East: South Yemen - as a military translator of Arabic - 1983-1984, translator of Arabic in the office of Chief Economic Adviser at the USSR Embassy in the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen and senior translator of a group of advisers at public administration bodies of the country (parliament, Council of Ministers) - 1987-1988
  • In the 1990s and 2000s, he worked on short-term business trips as an Arabic translator and expert in Iraq, Libya, Egypt, and Jordan, and participated in official visits of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry to the Gulf countries as a member of the delegation. (2003 - delegation headed by Minister of Foreign Affairs A. Zlenko).
  • In January 2005, he headed a mission of Ukrainian public observers in the election of the Head of the Palestinian National Administration
  • Since 2001, he has been actively cooperating with leading Ukrainian media, covering political processes in the Middle East (the political weekly Dzerkalo Tyzhnya, the Ukrainian Week magazine, the Kyiv Post newspaper, and TV channels). He collaborated with a wide range of Arab satellite television channels, radio programs, including Al Arabiya, Aljazeera (Arabic), MBC, in 2004 - 2007, especially actively during the events of the first Ukrainian Maidan.

Participation in international conferences, forums

He has given public lectures, presentations, participated in joint research projects with leading international think tanks, such as: the Royal Institute of International Affairs Chatham House, London; Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and European Policy Center (EPC), Brussels; Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC. He has extensive experience as an organizer and moderator of conferences and seminars of various formats.

International scholarships, advanced training abroad:

Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC - September 30 - October 30, 2007, Visiting Scholar, Intercultural Research Group, University of Durham, UK - June 11 - August 11, 2006 , Royal University of Belfast (Queens University Belfast), Northern Ireland, United Kingdom - attended a course of lectures, seminars, workshops on the experience of settlement the Northern Ireland conflict - 2015.

Cooperation with international organizations:

He has experience in evaluating and participating in the development of international humanitarian projects in cooperation with UNDP, UNHCR, OSCE (in Ukraine and Moldova). Member of the Human Security Steering Group, Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC) - 2010 – 2016

Experience in the field of project management:

Within the NGO "Center for Middle East Studies" (co-founder and president in the period 1994 - 2014), he is the author-developer and leader of almost two dozen research and educational projects, including international, in the field of conflict prevention (place of implementation - ARC, Transnistria).

Oleksandr Bogomolov has more than 90 scientific publications (monographs, sections, analytical reports, articles), including:

  1. Names of the revolution: the discourse of the Arab Spring. Kyiv 2018: Dmytro Burago Publishing House, 380 p. (monograph)
  2. The Middle East and North Africa as a sphere of Ukraine's interests. Analytical report. Kyiv 2020: National Institute for Strategic Studies - (co-author).
  3. Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people. Institutional analysis. Kyiv 2013. (monograph)
  4. Constructing Political Other in the Discourse of the Egyptian Arab Spring.// Scripta Neophilologica Posnaniensia. Tom XIV, 2014, pp. 7 – 31
  5. A Ghost in the Mirror: Russian Soft Power in Ukraine. A Chatham House Briefing Paper, January 2012 -http://www.chathamhouse.org/publications/papers/view/181667
  6. Islamic identity in Ukraine. Kyiv, 2005 (monograph)
  7. Firm in the face of the enemy: semantic analysis of the concept of SUMUD in modern Arabic. Folia Orientalia. Vol. 38, 2002 (PL ISSN 0015-5675). P. 41 – 63.
  8. Is there political Islam in Ukraine. The Review of International Affairs. Vol. 2, #4, 2003. Center for Euroasian Strategic Studies – ASAM, Ankara, Turkey. FrankCass Pulishers, London, UK: 89 – 106.
  9. Ukraine’s Strategic Security: On a Crossroad between Democracy and Neutrality. Readings in European Security. Vol. 4. Michael Emerson (editor): 134 – 157
  10. Transnistrian crisis: human dimension. GPPAC Assessment Mission Report. December 2008 – February 2009 (http://gppac.net/page.php?id=2294)
  11. Islamic education in Ukraine. // Islamic Education in the Soviet Union and Its Successor States. Editor(s) - Michael Kemper, Raoul Motika, Stefan Reichmuth. Routledge. Taylor & Francis Group. London and New York, 2010.