The ACSS-FMSH Short-Term Postdoctoral Mobility Fellowship Program in the Social Sciences and Humanities was launched in 2018. It is a collaborative program between the Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme (FMSH) and the ACSS, designed to support the research of postdoctoral fellows from Arab countries and strengthen research networking and collaborations between France and the Arab region.
The program provides short-term fellowships (2-3 months) to individual researchers – citizens and nationals of the Arab region – who have received their PhD degree within 0-6 years, and who wish to conduct research in France (including field research, library and archival work, as well as other types of data collection). Fellows are affiliated to academic and research institutions in France during the period of their fellowship.
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.
Houssem Eddine Chachia is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at Department of History in the University of Tunis (Tunisia). Co-Founder of “Nadwa Seminar: Tunisia, Mediterranean and Beyond”. Advisory Board Member in The Mediterranean Seminar (Un. of Colorado). Coordinator Tunisia of the Program New Generation of Social Scientists in the Arab Region, at the Arab Council for Social Sciences (Beirut). He was visiting professor at the University of Murcia, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University (2017-2018). His primary research areas include Morisco Studies, with a focus on the social and cultural history of the Moriscos before and after their expulsion. Additionally, he examines and reconstructs representations of Morisco history in both Spain and the Arab world across the modern and contemporary periods. Furthermore, he explores diplomatic relations between the Iberian Peninsula and the Maghreb in the early modern period. He has been the recipient of several prestigious awards, including the 2024 Sheikh Zayed Book Award in the Young Author Category (UAE), the Best Young Researcher (History section, 2020) from Beit al-Hikma (Tunisia), and the 2017 Arab Youth Award for Research in Religious Studies from the Mominoon Without Borders Foundation for Studies and Research (Morocco). Additionally, in 2015, he was the recipient of the Ibn Battuta Award for Travel Literature, which was bestowed upon him in two categories: studies and manuscript edition. This award was presented by the Arab Center for Travel Literature (London-Abu Dhabi). His publications include: The Morisco Landscape: Narratives of Expulsion in Modern Spanish Thought [in Arabic] (640 pp, 2023); Sephardim and Moriscos: The journey of the expulsion and installation in the Maghreb (1492-1756): stories and itineraries [in Arabic] (2 vol. 762 pp, 2015); (Editor and author.) Tunisia, the Mediterranean, and the Moriscos: A Tribute to Slimane Mostafa Zbiss and Mikel de Epalza [In Spanish, English, French] (260.pp, 2023); «Tunis: The City of Open Doors” (Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 2023); “Los moriscos y la rebelión de las Alpujarras en el pensamiento árabe” (Universidad de Granada); “La diáspora sefardí en Túnez: de finales del siglo XV a mediados del siglo XVIII” (Revista Sefarad, 2020); “The Moment of Choice: The Moriscos on the Border of Christianity and Islam” (Routledge, 2017). Since 2008, he has been the founder of a blog titled Los Moriscos de Túnez, dedicated to sharing academic and public knowledge about the Moriscos.
Driss Maghraoui est professeur associé en Histoire et Relations Internationale, à l’Ecole de Sciences Humaines et Sociales de l’Université d’Al Akhawayn (Ifrane, Maroc). Il était membre fondateur du Conseil Arabe pour les Sciences Sociales, et siège dans son conseil d’administration. Il est également membre fondateur de Rabat Social Studies Institute (RSSI). Il est co-éditeur de ‘Reforms in the Arab World: the Experience of Morocco’ dans la revue Mediterranean Politics (2009) et a dirigé la publication de Revisiting the Colonial Past in Morocco (Routledge, 2013). Plus récemment, il a co-édité L’immigration au Maroc : les défis de l’intégration, Fondation Heinrich Böll and RSSI, 2017.
Ses travaux les plus récents comprennent “Searching for Normalization: The Party of Justice and Development in Morocco”, in Julie Chernov and Mecham Quinn Mecham (Ed.); Strategies and Behavior of Islamist Political Parties: Comparative Lessons from Asia and the Middle East (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014) et “Morocco: Obedience, Civil Resistance, and Dispersed Solidarities” in Civil Resistance in the Arab World, Triumphs and Disasters, édité par Adam Roberts (Oxford University Press, 2016).
Nationality: Algerian
Postdoctoral Affiliation: Aix-Marseille Université TELEMMe
Project Title: Les dynamiques sociales en Algérie coloniale : Les « indigènes musulmans » et les colons entre coexistence et dissonance. La sous-préfecture de Sétif (1901-1956) en tant que reference
Nationality: Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Postdoctoral Affiliation: Laboratoire Population-Environnement-Développement LPED
Project Title: Lifetime and Intergenerational Labor Market Transitions in MENA: Exploring the Impact of Climate Shocks
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.
Houssem Eddine Chachia is an Assistant Professor (HDR.) at the University of Tunis (Tunisia). Coordinator Tunisia of the program New Generation of Social Scientists in the Arab Region, at Arab Council for the Social Sciences (Beirut). He was a visiting fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies – at Harvard University (2017-2018). His primary area of research is Moriscos Studies, focusing on the processes and complexities of identity formation and the relationship between the Iberian Peninsula and the Maghreb in the early modern period. His recently publications include “The Morisco Landscape: Narratives of Expulsion in Modern Spanish Thought” [In Arabic] (640.pp, 2023); (Editor and Author.) “Tunisia, the Mediterranean, and the Moriscos: Tribute to Slimane Mostafa Zbiss and Mikel de Epalza” [In Spanish, English, French] (260.pp, 2023). Awarded as a best young researcher for the year 2020 (section history), presented by Beit al-Hikma (Tunisia), and the Arab Youth Award for Research and Religious Studies (2017), presented by Foundation Mominoon Without Borders (Morocco), and Ibn Battuta Award (2015), section Studies and edition, presented by the Arab Center for the travel literature (London-Abu Dhabi).
Driss Maghraoui est professeur associé en Histoire et Relations Internationale, à l’Ecole de Sciences Humaines et Sociales de l’Université d’Al Akhawayn (Ifrane, Maroc). Il était membre fondateur du Conseil Arabe pour les Sciences Sociales, et siège dans son conseil d’administration. Il est également membre fondateur de Rabat Social Studies Institute (RSSI). Il est co-éditeur de ‘Reforms in the Arab World: the Experience of Morocco’ dans la revue Mediterranean Politics (2009) et a dirigé la publication de Revisiting the Colonial Past in Morocco (Routledge, 2013). Plus récemment, il a co-édité L’immigration au Maroc : les défis de l’intégration, Fondation Heinrich Böll and RSSI, 2017.
Ses travaux les plus récents comprennent “Searching for Normalization: The Party of Justice and Development in Morocco”, in Julie Chernov and Mecham Quinn Mecham (Ed.); Strategies and Behavior of Islamist Political Parties: Comparative Lessons from Asia and the Middle East (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014) et “Morocco: Obedience, Civil Resistance, and Dispersed Solidarities” in Civil Resistance in the Arab World, Triumphs and Disasters, édité par Adam Roberts (Oxford University Press, 2016).
Nationality: Tunisian
Postdoctoral Affiliation: Centre d’histoire sociale des mondes contemporains
Project Title: “Au moins suspecte”. Surveillance et emprisonnement des femmes en contexte colonial tunisien (1911-1938)
Nationality: Algerian
Postdoctoral Affiliation: Laboratoire Population-Environnement-Développement LPED
Project Title: Le rôle de la solidarité familiale aux femmes agricultrices Pendant le confinement. Etude de cas : France-Algérie
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.
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
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
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
Nationality: Algerian
Postdoctoral Affiliation: L’Institut d’Histoire du Temps Présent – IHTP
Project Title: Algérie: arabisation et francophonie (1962-2019)
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.
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
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
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
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.
Nationality: Moroccan
Postdoctoral Affiliation: UMR 6590 CNRS – ESO Angers
Project Title: Le végétal en ville, le cas de Marrakech
Nationality: Tunisian
Postdoctoral Affiliation: Middle East Mediterranean Research Center
Project Title: The Social and Cultural construction of Ibadi/Algerian community in France
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 ?
Nationality: Lebanese
Project Title: Counter-Sectarian Resistance: Mobilizing Gendered Identities to Negotiate Sectarian Hegemonic Power in Lebanon
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
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.
Nationality: Tunisian
Postdoctoral Affiliation: SIRICE – Université Paris 1
Project Title: la communauté corse et sa contribution à la colonisation française en Afrique du Nord
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
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
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
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.
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)
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
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?
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
Nationality: Moroccan
Postdoctoral Affiliation: Pôle entrepreneuriat étudiant de Lorraine (PeeL)
Project Title: Evaluation of the Entrepreneurship Program at the University of Lorraine
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
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. 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.
Nationality: Moroccan
Postdoctoral Affiliation: Centre Emile Durkhein, Bordeaux
Project Title: Sexual Harassment on Campus Universities in Morocco and France
Nationality: Moroccan
Postdoctoral Affiliation: CNRS, UMR 500 Environnement Ville et Societé
Project Title: Analysis of Multidimensional Poverty in Morocco: A Spatial Approach
Nationality: Algerian
Postdoctoral Affiliation: BepsyLab, University of Angers
Project Title: Cultural Expressions of Trauma among Rape Victims in France: A Psycho-Clinical Study
Nationality: Tunisian
Postdoctoral Affiliation: Sciences Po-CERI
Project Title: Waste Management Crisis in Tunisia after the 2011 Revolution
Nationality: Tunisian
Postdoctoral Affiliation: IRIS-EHESS
Project Title: Health and Professional Stability in Call Centers in Tunisia: The Case of Teleperformance
