Naumkin, Vitaly V.

PhD in History, Professor,  RAS academician. In 1968, he graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of the Institute of Asian and African countries of Moscow State University (later Institute of Oriental Languages), where he specialized in the study of the history of Arab countries and the Arabic language. In 1966-1967, he had an interned at Cairo University and  American University in Cairo (Egypt). In 1968-1970 he served as an officer in the Soviet Army, taught at the Military Institute of Foreign Languages of the Defense Ministry. Since 1972, he began teaching medieval history of the Arab world, Islamic studies and modern political development of the Arab countries in the IAAC MSU. In 1972-1977, worked at the Graduate School of Social Sciences in the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen. Twenty years of his career devoted to the Institute of Oriental Studies under the Russian Academy of Sciences, where he was the Head of Department of the Arab Countries, then served as Deputy Director of the Institute, and throughout 1994-2009 – Head of the Center for Arab Studies. He is also President of a non-profit NGO “Center for Strategic and Political Studies,” Editor-in-chief of the “Vostok/ORIENS” journal, member of the advisory Scientific Council under the Security Council of Russia. He leads the Department of Regional Studies at the Faculty of World Politics at Moscow State University. PIR Center Advisory Board member since 2014. Member of the Trialogue Club International since 2018. 10/22 

Publications: 

• Арабский мир, ислам и Россия: прошлое и настоящее. М.: ИВ РАН, 2013. 

• Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature. Volume 1. Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, volume 76. Corpus editor: Vitaly Naumkin (coauthor with Leonid Kogan, ‘Isa Gum‘an al-Da‘rhi, Ahmed ‘Isa al-Da‘rhi, Dmitry Cherhashin, Maria Bulakh, Ekaterina Vizirova). Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2014. 

• Soqotri Texts in the Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. An Annotated Edition. JSS Supplement 36. In collaboration with Leonid Kogan, ‘Isa al-Da‘rhi, Ahmed al-Da‘rhi and Dmitry Cherkashin. Oxford University Press, 2015. 

• Насильственные конфликты и внешнее вмешательство на Ближнем и Среднем Востоке через призму теории глубоко разделенных обществ (ТГРО). С. 415-443. В кн.: Политическая наука перед вызовами глобального и регионального развития. Серия «Российская политическая наука». Истоки и перспективы. Под общей редакцией О.В.Гаман-Голутвиной. М., Аспект Пресс, 2016. 

• Конфликты и войны XXI века: Ближний Восток и Северная Африка. Отв. редактор и автор главы: «Исламский радикализм и внешнее вмешательство в глубоко разделенных обществах Ближнего Востока», с. 25-52. М., 2015.