ACSS-FMSH Short-Term Postdoctoral Mobility Fellowship Program OLD

Selection Committee

Myriam Catusse is a political scientist and a CNRS research fellow (CR1) at the Institut de recherche sur le monde arabe et musulman (IREMAM, Aix-en-Provence) since 2000. Since September 2013, she has been heading the department of contemporary studies at the Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo). She holds a PhD from Sciences-Po Aix-en-Provence (1999) and was a Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute of Florence (Italy). She teaches MBA Students at Aix-Marseille University and Sciences-Po Aix and also taught at the Paris School for International Affairs. She was earlier a PhD student at Centre Jacques Berque in Rabat (Morocco) (1996-1999) and was researcher at the Institut Français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo) between April 2006 and October 2010 in Lebanon. She is a board member of Politique Africaine, L’Année du Maghreb and the Revue des mondes musulmans et de la méditerranée. She is, with Stéphanie Latte, the head of the social sciences department of the IREMAM.

Mounir SAIDANI is Professor of Sociology and  full-time researcher at the Centre for Economic and Social Studies and Researches (CERES, 1962). He is the Editor in Chief of the Tunisian Social Sciences Review (edited by CERES since 1964). He is interested in socio-anthropology of culture, knowledge and art, and socio-cultural change in contemporary Tunisia and the Arab World. He published several books and articles in Arabic, French and English in Tunisia and abroad. He also translated books and articles in the field of his interest from French and English into Arabic. One of his latest publications is a 1418 pages Report on the Religious State in Tunisia 2011-2015, a collective work  which he supervised and was its editor in chief (2018). From 2014 to 2022, he led a multidisciplinary research unit working on “Knowledges, Cultures and Social Change”. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Sociological Association (ISA 2018-2023). He gave lectures and presentations in A Coruña, Ajman, Ankara, Beirut, Brussels, Doha, Gottingen, Liège, Manama, Oran, Paris, Rabat, Santiago di Compostela, Taipei, Toronto, Tunis.  He coordinated the XVII ISA PhD Students Lab (September 2022).

Matthieu Rey is currently director of the department of contemporary studies at the French Institute of Near East (Ifpo), and has worked at the IFAS-research, French National Centre for Scientific Research. He is currently studying state-building in Southern Africa and the Middle East, during the 19th century. He has deeply investigated several aspects of the Iraqi and Syrian history during his PhD. He speaks Arabic and has notions of Spanish, Farsi and Zulu.

Fellows

Elhadj Ould Brahim

Nationality: Mauritanian

Postdoctoral Affiliation: L’institut des mondes Africains – IMAF

Project Title: Bondja never kills, it is Allah that kills: Race, identity and religiosity in Haratin’s Bondja and Medh Music Traditions

Ouafaa Bouhdoud

Nationality: Moroccan

Postdoctoral Affiliation: Erudite

Project Title: Produits de terroir et théorie des communs: l’expérience de la France de valorisation au service du développement local, sociale et solidaire

Alla-Eddine Fenchouch

Nationality: Algerian

Postdoctoral Affiliation: Le Laboratoire Techniques, Territoires, Société – Latts

Project Title: La fabrique ordinaire de la ville, ses modalités, ses acteurs et ses effets : Cas d’Alger

Yassine Temlali

Nationality: Algerian

Postdoctoral Affiliation: L’Institut d’Histoire du Temps Présent – IHTP

Project Title: Algérie: arabisation et francophonie (1962-2019)

Selection Committee

Myriam Catusse is a political scientist and a CNRS research fellow (CR1) at the Institut de recherche sur le monde arabe et musulman (IREMAM, Aix-en-Provence) since 2000. Since September 2013, she has been heading the department of contemporary studies at the Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo). She holds a PhD from Sciences-Po Aix-en-Provence (1999) and was a Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute of Florence (Italy). She teaches MBA Students at Aix-Marseille University and Sciences-Po Aix and also taught at the Paris School for International Affairs. She was earlier a PhD student at Centre Jacques Berque in Rabat (Morocco) (1996-1999) and was researcher at the Institut Français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo) between April 2006 and October 2010 in Lebanon. She is a board member of Politique Africaine, L’Année du Maghreb and the Revue des mondes musulmans et de la méditerranée. She is, with Stéphanie Latte, the head of the social sciences department of the IREMAM.

Mounir SAIDANI is Professor of Sociology and  full-time researcher at the Centre for Economic and Social Studies and Researches (CERES, 1962). He is the Editor in Chief of the Tunisian Social Sciences Review (edited by CERES since 1964). He is interested in socio-anthropology of culture, knowledge and art, and socio-cultural change in contemporary Tunisia and the Arab World. He published several books and articles in Arabic, French and English in Tunisia and abroad. He also translated books and articles in the field of his interest from French and English into Arabic. One of his latest publications is a 1418 pages Report on the Religious State in Tunisia 2011-2015, a collective work  which he supervised and was its editor in chief (2018). From 2014 to 2022, he led a multidisciplinary research unit working on “Knowledges, Cultures and Social Change”. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Sociological Association (ISA 2018-2023). He gave lectures and presentations in A Coruña, Ajman, Ankara, Beirut, Brussels, Doha, Gottingen, Liège, Manama, Oran, Paris, Rabat, Santiago di Compostela, Taipei, Toronto, Tunis.  He coordinated the XVII ISA PhD Students Lab (September 2022).

Matthieu Rey is currently director of the department of contemporary studies at the French Institute of Near East (Ifpo), and has worked at the IFAS-research, French National Centre for Scientific Research. He is currently studying state-building in Southern Africa and the Middle East, during the 19th century. He has deeply investigated several aspects of the Iraqi and Syrian history during his PhD. He speaks Arabic and has notions of Spanish, Farsi and Zulu.

Fellows

Adnen Jdey

Nationality: Tunisian

Postdoctoral Affiliation: Centre de Recherches en Histoire des Idées (CRHI, UPR 4318)

Project Title: L’esthétique rythmique d’Henri Maldiney Genèse et évolution d’une phénoménologie de l’art

Mohand Anaris

Nationality: Algerian

Postdoctoral Affiliation: Centre Norbert Elias EHESS Campus Marseille

Project Title: Parenté transnationale et pratique adoptive en France. Cas de la kafala des enfants nés dans les pays du Maghreb

Sghaira Benhmida

Nationality: Tunisian

Postdoctoral Affiliation: Musée de la marine -service de recherche en ethnographie navale

Project Title: Atlas et glossaire nautique de la Tunisie : Complément ou annexe à l’ouvrage d’Albert Gateau

Selection Committee

Myriam Catusse is a political scientist and a CNRS research fellow (CR1) at the Institut de recherche sur le monde arabe et musulman (IREMAM, Aix-en-Provence) since 2000. Since September 2013, she has been heading the department of contemporary studies at the Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo). She holds a PhD from Sciences-Po Aix-en-Provence (1999) and was a Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute of Florence (Italy). She teaches MBA Students at Aix-Marseille University and Sciences-Po Aix and also taught at the Paris School for International Affairs. She was earlier a PhD student at Centre Jacques Berque in Rabat (Morocco) (1996-1999) and was researcher at the Institut Français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo) between April 2006 and October 2010 in Lebanon. She is a board member of Politique Africaine, L’Année du Maghreb and the Revue des mondes musulmans et de la méditerranée. She is, with Stéphanie Latte, the head of the social sciences department of the IREMAM.

Mounir SAIDANI is Professor of Sociology at Tunis Al-Manar University. He is the Editor in Chief of the Tunisian Social Sciences Review (edited by CERES since 1964). He is interested in socio-anthropology of culture, knowledge and art, and socio-cultural change in contemporary Tunisia and the Arab World. He published several books and articles in Arabic, French and English in Tunisia and abroad. He also translated books and articles in the field of his interest from French and English into Arabic. One of his latest publications is a 1418 pages Report on the Religious State in Tunisia 2011-2015, a collective work  which he supervised and was its editor in chief (2018). From 2014 he has been leading  a multidisciplinary research unit working on “Knowledges, Cultures and Social Change”. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Sociological Association (ISA 2018-). He gave lectures and presentations in A Coruña, Ajman, Ankara, Beirut, Brussels, Doha, Gottingen, Liège, Manama, Oran, Paris, Rabat, Santiago di Compostela, Taipei, Toronto, Tunis.

Kamel Doraï is a researcher at the CNRS (the French National Centre for Scientific Research) currently based at the French Institute for the Near East – IFPO in Amman (Jordan).  He was based at MIGRINTER, University of Poitiers (France) from 2010 to 2014. His work focuses mainly on asylum and refugees in the Middle East, new migrations and geopolitical reorganisation in the Middle East, and migration and transnational practices within the Palestinian Diaspora. Dr Doraï is currently conducting research on the Iraqis in Syria as well as on the urbanization process of Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. He has been  conducting fieldwork in Lebanon, Syria, Sweden since 1996 on different refugee groups, collecting biographies, migration trajectories, and researching urban mobility. The comparative study between refugees residing in and out of camps as well as the analysis of their migratory experience and spatial practices provide an account of the refugees’ socio-spatial dynamics in exile and of relations between the camp and their urban environment.

Fellows

Abdelali Gourfi

Nationality: Moroccan

Postdoctoral Affiliation: UMR 6590 CNRS – ESO Angers

Project Title: Le végétal en ville, le cas de Marrakech

Oussama Boufrikhai

Nationality: Tunisian

Postdoctoral Affiliation: Middle East Mediterranean Research Center

Project Title: The Social and Cultural construction of Ibadi/Algerian community in France

Dounia Laouar

Nationality: Algerian

Postdoctoral Affiliation: ENSA Toulouse

Project Title: L’impact des opérations de renouvellement urbain sur la sécurité dans les quartiers prioritaires : Les nouvelles formes urbaines sont-elles garantes de sécurité ?

Abdelmalik Atamena

Nationality: Algerian

Postdoctoral Affiliation: Interdisciplinary Institute of Contemporary Anthropology (IIAC)

Project Title: Germaine Tillion et Fanny Colonna au cœur de l’Aurès: Réconcilier les lieux, la vie et le savoir

Selection Committee

Myriam Catusse is a political scientist and a CNRS research fellow (CR1) at the Institut de recherche sur le monde arabe et musulman (IREMAM, Aix-en-Provence) since 2000. Since September 2013, she has been heading the department of contemporary studies at the Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo). She holds a PhD from Sciences-Po Aix-en-Provence (1999) and was a Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute of Florence (Italy). She teaches MBA Students at Aix-Marseille University and Sciences-Po Aix and also taught at the Paris School for International Affairs. She was earlier a PhD student at Centre Jacques Berque in Rabat (Morocco) (1996-1999) and was researcher at the Institut Français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo) between April 2006 and October 2010 in Lebanon. She is a board member of Politique Africaine, L’Année du Maghreb and the Revue des mondes musulmans et de la méditerranée. She is, with Stéphanie Latte, the head of the social sciences department of the IREMAM.

Mounir SAIDANI is Professor of Sociology at Tunis Al-Manar University.   He is the Editor in Chief of the Tunisian Social Sciences Review (edited by CERES since 1964). He is interested in socio-anthropology of culture, knowledge and art, and socio-cultural change in contemporary Tunisia and the Arab World. He published several books and articles in Arabic, French and English in Tunisia and abroad. He also translated books and articles in the field of his interest from French and English into Arabic. One of his latest publications is a 1418 pages Report on the Religious State in Tunisia 2011-2015, a collective work  which he supervised and was its editor in chief (2018). He has led  a multidisciplinary research unit working on “Knowledges, Cultures and Social Change”.

Kamel Doraï is a researcher at the CNRS (the French National Centre for Scientific Research) currently based at the French Institute for the Near East – IFPO in Amman (Jordan).  He was based at MIGRINTER, University of Poitiers (France) from 2010 to 2014. His work focuses mainly on asylum and refugees in the Middle East, new migrations and geopolitical reorganisation in the Middle East, and migration and transnational practices within the Palestinian Diaspora. Dr Doraï is currently conducting research on the Iraqis in Syria as well as on the urbanization process of Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. He has been  conducting fieldwork in Lebanon, Syria, Sweden since 1996 on different refugee groups, collecting biographies, migration trajectories, and researching urban mobility. The comparative study between refugees residing in and out of camps as well as the analysis of their migratory experience and spatial practices provide an account of the refugees’ socio-spatial dynamics in exile and of relations between the camp and their urban environment.

Fellows

Tarek Bedhiouf

Nationality: Tunisian

Postdoctoral Affiliation: SIRICE – Université Paris 1

Project Title: la communauté corse et sa contribution à la colonisation française en Afrique du Nord

Ammar Kandeel

Nationality: Jordanian

Postdoctoral Affiliation: CRISES – Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires en Sciences Humaines et Sociales

Project Title: Ecrire l’histoire de la Palestine en France : réception et positionnements idéologiques et intellectuels des historiens français

Hind Sabri 

Nationality: Moroccan

Postdoctoral Affiliation: Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Recits, Cultures et Societes Equipe d’accueil 3159

Project Title: L’Eau et le Pouvoir dans le Bassin Méditerranéen : Une approche comparative entre deux modèles de gestion sociale de l’eau d’irrigation : L’arrière-pays niçois (Sud- Est de la France) et le Haut Atlas Occidental du Maroc

Mohammad Muhsen

Nationality: Palestinian

Postdoctoral Affiliation: ESO-Angers (UMR6590 CNRS)

Project Title: The Effects of Anthropogenic Activities on Landscape Changes of the Palestinian Central Mountains: Eastern Slopes of Jerusalem as a Case Study

Selection Committee

Annie Tohme-Tabet is an anthropologist and a professor at Saint Joseph University in Beirut. She participated in the UNESCO Women, Development and Intangible Heritage Programme (2001). She was responsible for the national project in Lebanon (2009-2010) and then regional coordinator in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon (2011-2012) of MEDLIHER (EU/UNESCO). In addition to facilitating capacity-building workshops since 2011, she has contributed, as an independent expert, to the sessions of the Advisory Body of the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Section in 2013 and 2014. She has represented Lebanon on the Intergovernmental Committee of the 2003 Convention since 2015.

Fadma Ait Mous is an Assistant Professor at Hassan II University in Casablanca, Morocco. Her research is mainly focused on nationalism and social movements, gender and socio-political transformations, history and memory, social media, citizenship and migration. She recently published (with Driss Ksikes) Le métier d’intellectuel : Dialogues avec quinze penseurs du Maroc (2014).

Kamel Doraï is a researcher at the CNRS (the French National Centre for Scientific Research) currently based at the French Institute for the Near East – IFPO in Amman (Jordan).  He was based at MIGRINTER, University of Poitiers (France) from 2010 to 2014. His work focuses mainly on asylum and refugees in the Middle East, new migrations and geopolitical reorganisation in the Middle East, and migration and transnational practices within the Palestinian Diaspora. Dr Doraï is currently conducting research on the Iraqis in Syria as well as on the urbanization process of Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. He is conducting fieldwork in Lebanon, Syria, Sweden since 1996 on different refugee groups, collecting biographies and migration trajectories, and researching urban mobility. The comparative study between refugees residing in and out of camps as well as the analysis of their migratory experience and spatial practices provide an account of the refugees’ socio-spatial dynamics in exile and of relations between the camp and their urban environment.

Fellows

Hend Guirat

Nationality: Tunisian

Postdoctoral Affiliation: Centre de Recherches Moyen-Orient Méditerranée (CERMOM)

Project Title: Justice of Exception and Challenges to Remembering in Tunisia: Death Sentences Issued by Military Courts (January 1952-March 1956)

Nourddine Mirhani

Nationality: Comoran

Postdoctoral Affiliation: ESO-Angers, UMR 6590 CNRS

Project Title: Environmental Geography between Vernacular Knowledge and Academic Science: A Holistic Paradigm for the Society-Nature Nexus

Bahia Kebir

Nationality: Algerian

Postdoctoral Affiliation: Équipe EMAM (Monde Arabe & Méditerranée), UMR 7324 CITERES (Cités, Territoires, Environnement et Sociétés), François Rabelais University

Project Title: Algerian Cities and Attractiveness: Towards an Exclusionary City?

Faisal Shabi

Nationality: Algerian

Postdoctoral Affiliation: Institut de Recherches et d’Études sur les Mondes Arabes et Musulmans (IREMAM)

Project Title: Algerian Cinema and its Audience: Reception, Practices and Representations

Sara Yassine

Nationality: Moroccan

Postdoctoral Affiliation: Pôle entrepreneuriat étudiant de Lorraine (PeeL)

Project Title: Evaluation of the Entrepreneurship Program at the University of Lorraine

Elyes Baccouche

Nationality: Tunisian

Postdoctoral Affiliation: Laboratoire HISOMA (Histoire et Sources des Mondes Antiques)

Project Title: The Poor and Poverty in Africa during the Imperial, Vandal and Byzantine Eras

Selection Committee

Sari Hanafi is currently a Professor of Sociology, Director of the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies and Chair of the Islamic Studies program at the American University of Beirut.  He is the President of the International Sociological Association. He was also the editor of Idafat: the Arab Journal of Sociology (Arabic) (2017-2022).  Recently he created the “Portal for Social impact of scientific research in/on the Arab World” (Athar). He was the Vice President of the board of trustees of the Arab Council of Social Science (2015-2016).  He has also served as a visiting professor/fellow at the University of Poitiers and Migrintern and the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (France), University of Bologna and Ravenna (Italy), Chr. Michelsen Institute (Bergen-Norway), Doha Institute for Graduate Studies.  Hanafi was also a former senior researcher at the Cairo-based French research center, Centre d’études et de documentation économique juridique et sociale (1994-2000). He is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters on the sociology of religion; connection of moral philosophy to the social sciences; the sociology of (forced) migration applied to the Palestinian refugees; politics of scientific research. Among his recent books are: Addressing the rupture between the religious and social sciences: Is the morning coming soon? (Kuwait: Nohood Center; forcoming in OUP in English) Knowledge Production in the Arab World: The Impossible Promise. (With R. Arvanitis) (in Arabic, Beirut: CAUS and in English, Routledge -2016); The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East (co-edited with A. Salvatore and K. Obuse); From Relief and Works to Human Development: UNRWA and Palestinian Refugees after 60 Years. (Edited with L Takkenberg and L Hilal) (Routledge- 2014). The Power of Inclusive Exclusion: Anatomy of Israeli Rule in The Occupied Palestinian Territories (Edited with A. Ophir & M. Givoni, 2009) (English and Arabic) (NY:Zone Book; Beirut:CAUS), The Emergence of A Palestinian Globalized Elite: Donors, International Organizations and Local NGOs (with L. Taber, 2005) (Arabic and English); Pouvoir et associations dans le monde arabe (Edited with S. Bennéfissa, 2002) (Paris:CNRS). He is the winner of 2014 Abdelhamid Shouman Award and 2015 Kuwait Award for social science. In 2019, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate (Doctor Honoris Causa) form the National University of San Marcos (the first and the leading university in Lima- Peru – established in 1551). In 2022 he became lifetime corresponding fellow of the British Academy (His website: https://sites.aub.edu.lb/sarihanafi/). He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales-Paris (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences) (1994).

Dina El Khawaga is an associate professor of public policy at Cairo University. Over the last twenty years, she worked as policy expert and program director at the Ford Foundation, the Open Society Foundations, The Arab Reform Initiative and the American University of Beirut. Dr. Dina works mainly on social activism, transnational social movements and the diverse configurations of civil society organization and mobilization in the region.

Eberhard Kienle is Research Professor at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in Paris and teaches politics at SciencesPo Paris. He previously served as director of the Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo, French Near East Institute) in Beirut, member of the UN OHCHR fact finding mission to Syria, and programme officer at the Ford Foundation Cairo office. He has published extensively on the political sociology and economy of the Middle East and its international relations. Thematically his interests include economic and social policies and the transformation of political regimes, as well as the erosion and disintegration of contemporary states. Geographically he has focused on Egypt and the Fertile Crescent. His publications include Ba’th versus Ba’th: The conflict between Syria and Iraq, 1968-1989 (London, I.B. Tauris, 1990) and A Grand Delusion: Democracy and Economic Reform in Egypt (London, I.B. Tauris, 2001). With Nadine Sika he co-edited The Arab Uprisings: Transforming and Challenging State Power (London, I.B. Tauris, 2015).

Mohamed Ali Marouani is an Associate Professor in Economics at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Representative in Tunisia, Institute of Research for Development and Founding Board Member, Middle-East and North Africa Chair, Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne University. He is an IRD Research Fellow and ERF Research Fellow. His research focuses on the impact of public policies on firms’ and workers’ vulnerability to Covid-19 crisis, structural change and skilled labor demand, evaluation of the Impact of policies and shocks and international migration and employment.

Fellows

Ahmed ElKhatabi

Nationality: Moroccan

Postdoctoral Affiliation: Centre Emile Durkhein, Bordeaux

Project Title: Sexual Harassment on Campus Universities in Morocco and France

Jabrane Amaghouss

Nationality: Moroccan

Postdoctoral Affiliation: CNRS, UMR 500 Environnement Ville et Societé

Project Title: Analysis of Multidimensional Poverty in Morocco: A Spatial Approach

Houda Bouzidi

Nationality: Algerian

Postdoctoral Affiliation: BepsyLab, University of Angers

Project Title: Cultural Expressions of Trauma among Rape Victims in France: A Psycho-Clinical Study

Maha Bouhlel

Nationality: Tunisian

Postdoctoral Affiliation: Sciences Po-CERI

Project Title: Waste Management Crisis in Tunisia after the 2011 Revolution

Montaha Ben Kacem

Nationality: Tunisian

Postdoctoral Affiliation: IRIS-EHESS

Project Title: Health and Professional Stability in Call Centers in Tunisia: The Case of Teleperformance