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CERI
Research director, Sciences Po
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Themes: Anthropology of travel (migration, smuggling, exile), transnational religious and trade networks, politics and land issues
Geographical areas: Near East - Middle East
Countries: Afghanistan, Iran
Research manager, CNRS
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Themes: Sociology of civil wars, TaLebanon tribunals in Afghanistan, armed conflict in Syria, Western military intervention
Geographical areas: Central Asia/Near East - Middle East
Countries: Afghanistan, Syria
Research engineer (HDR), CNRS
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Themes: Islamism, migrations, pilgrimages, identity conflicts
Geographical areas: Central Asia/Caucasus, International spaces, Near East - Middle East, Russia
Countries: Turkey
Research manager, CNRS
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Themes: Social movements, mobilizations and transnational religious networks
Geographical areas: Near East - Middle East
Countries: Yemen
Emeritus research director
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Themes: Politique étrangère, défense, armée, guerre, démocratie
Geographical areas: International spaces, Near East - Middle East
Countries: Israel
Research director, CNRS
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Themes: Nation, nationalism, religion, State, democracy
Geographical areas: Near East - Middle East
Countries: Israel, Palestine
University professor
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Themes: Middle East and international relations, social movements, and revolutionary dynamics, from the Palestinian - the Syrian question
Geographical areas: North Africa, Near East - Middle East
Research director, CNRS
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Themes: Historical sociology of the economy, domination, neoliberalism, social movements
Geographical areas: North Africa
Countries: Morocco, Tunisia
Research director, CNRS
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Themes: Transformations of states and political regimes, “failing” states and “varieties” of states, political economy and sociology of the Middle East
Geographical areas: Near East - Middle East
Associate Professor
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Themes: Transformations in contemporary Islam; Salafism and Islamism; religious policies of Arab states; changes in - thoritarianism in the Arab world
Geographical areas: Near East - Middle East
Countries: Arabie saoudite, Bahrain, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar
Associate Scientific Director (CERI) - Associate Professor, Sciences Po
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Themes: Shi'ism and politics, transformation of the welfare state in the Gulf monarchies, minorities, and identity politics
Geographical areas: Near East - Middle East
Countries: Bahrai
Research director, Sciences Po
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Themes: The State in the Maghreb, Islamism and political violence, security policies in the Mediterranean, oil revenues and democracy
Geographical areas: North Africa
Countries: Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia
Research manager, CNRS
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Themes: Religion, religious pluralism, conversion, democracy, social movements, moral activism, civil disobedience, political participation, political Islam, Muslim minorities
Geographical areas: North Africa, western Europe
Countries: United States, France
Research director, CNRS
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Themes: Political sociology of Turkey, government intermediaries, political territoriality
Geographical areas: Near East - Middle East
Countries: Turkey
University professor
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Themes: Political ecology and urban infrastructure crises, urban metabolism, cities and governance, energy issues in countries of the South
Geographical areas: North Africa, International spaces, Near East - Middle East
Countries: Lebanon, Tunisia
Doctoral Students
Thesis supervisors: Stéphane Lacroix and Nicolas Puig
Thesis: Rhymes from the Margins: “New School” Hip-Hop and the Rise of Urban Subaltern Youth’s Voices to the Center of Egyptian Popular Culture
Geographical areas: Near East - Middle East
Countries: Egypt
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Thesis supervisor: Stéphane Lacroix
Thesis: The failure of the US-sponsored state building project in Afghanistan (2001-2021)
Countries: Afghanistan
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Thesis supervisor: Stéphane Lacroix and Philippe Portier
Thesis: Understanding the restructuring of the Christian sphere in Morocco
Themes: Religious fact, Ideologies, Identities, Methodology, Aesthetics
Geographical areas: North Africa, International spaces, Europe occidentale
Countries: France, Morocco
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Thesis supervisors: Christophe Jaffrelot and Philippe Bezès
Thesis: Controlling the state beyond political change. Politico-administrative arrangements in the corps of prefects and diplomats in post-revolutionary Iran and Pakistan
Themes: Sociology of the State and public administrations; Iran; Pakistan; Afghanistan
Geographical areas: Near East - Middle East
Countries: Iran, Pakistan
Thesis supervisors: Christian Lequesne (CERI-Sciences Po/CNRS) and Yael Shomer (Tel Aviv University)
Thesis: Between Representation and Estrangement: a political sociology of Israel’s Foreign Service
Geographical areas: Near East - Middle East
Countries: Israel
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Thesis supervisor: Bayram Balci
Thesis: The instrumentalization of ethical and religious arguments in information warfare in the Middle East: analysis, strategic implications and countermeasures
Geographical areas: Near and Middle East
Countries: Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey
Thesis supervisors: Bayram Balci and Delphine Allès
Thesis: Humanitarian organisations in Turkey
Geographical areas: Central Asia/Caucasus, Near East - Middle East
Countries: Turkey
Thesis supervisor: Alain Dieckhoff
Thesis: Likud and local mandates. How do local mandates enable the emergence of a new political class?
Themes: Israeli political life, political party studies, local governance, training of political elites
Geographical areas: Near East - Middle East
Countries: Israel
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Thesis supervisor: Didier Bigo
Thesis: “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”: An Anthropological Study of “Everyday” Intelligence Oversight
Themes: Control mechanisms, intelligence agencies, critical security studies, anthropology of political violence, IR theories
Geographical areas: Near East - Middle East, North America, Western Europe
Countries: Belgium, United Arab Emirates, France, Spain, United Kingdom, United States
Discipline: Sociology
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Thesis supervisor: Thierry Balzacq
Thesis: Morocco's grand strategy: foreign policy determinants
Themes: Grand strategy, Maghreb, Morocco, armament
Geographical areas: North Africa
Countries: Morocco
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Thesis supervisor: Hélène Combes
Thesis: The consolidation of an electoral culture in a monarchical context: imaginaries and materialities of electoral processes in Morocco (1997-2027)
Themes: Elections, Sufism, Arab world, Electoral culture
Geographical areas: North Africa, Near East - Middle East
Countries: Morocco
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Thesis supervisor: Jean-Pierre Filiu
Thesis: Intelligence services and the rule of law - The case of Tunisia
Themes: Reform and Governance of Security Services
Geographical areas: North Africa, Near East - Middle Ea
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Thesis supervisor: Eric Verdeil
Thesis: On the Meaning of the “Public” in a Propertied Landscape: Space matters and State representations. The case of Lebanon
Themes: Public space, territory, State
Geographical areas: Near East - Middle East
Countries: Lebanon
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Thesis supervisor: Élise Massicard
Thesis: The links between precariousness and mobilization in Turkey
Themes: Precarization, precarity, precariousness, Turkey, Middle East, populism, autocratization
Geographical areas: Near East - Middle East
Countries: Turkey
Associated Researchers
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Themes: Trade union movement. Political sociology of actors and mobilizations. Social movements in Algeria and the Maghreb.
Geographical areas: North Africa
Countries: Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania, Tunisia
Associated: 01/09/2024 - 31/08/2026
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Themes: State repression, surveillance studies, street protests, activism, political parties
Geographical areas: Near East - Middle East
Countries: Turkey
Associated: 01/04/2022 - 31/08/2026
Associated Experts
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Themes: The evolution of Russian foreign policy towards the Arab world, new political and geopolitical balances in North Africa, the crisis of the state in the Arab world, the Yemeni conflict
Geographical areas: North Africa, International spaces, Near East - Middle East, Russia
Countries: Algeria, Fédération de Russia, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen
Associated: 01/04/2023 - 31/08/2025
Associated Doctors
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Thesis: In the kingdom's parliament chamber: parliamentarians and the changing conditions of political life in Jordan (2016-2023), supervised by Élise Massicard & Éric Verdeil
Associated: 06/12/2023 - 05/12/2026
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Thesis: Governing with women, governing women in AKP Turkey: social action in the city of Gaziantep, supervised by Elise Massicard
Associated: 24/11/2022 - 23/11/2025
Thesis: Diversification of electricity supply configurations in Lebanon, supervised by Eric Verdeil
Associated: 15/12/2023 - 14/12/2026
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Thesis: The impact of the private sector on Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey, supervised by Jean-Pierre Filiu
Associated:16/12/2023 - 15/12/2026
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Thesis: In the name of national security: the negotiating activity of the Egyptian intelligence services in the “Palestinian issue”, supervised by Guillaume Devin
Associated: 26/11/2022 - 25/11/2025
Thesis: War system and isomorphism: an inter-organizational perspective on uncertainty in Algeria's civil conflict (1992-1999), supervised by Luis Martinez & Christian Olsson
Associated: 25/03/2023 - 24/03/2026
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Thesis: Mirages of Race: Blackness, Racialization, and the Black Movement in Tunisia, supervised by Nadia Marzouki, Daniel Sabbagh & Charles Kurzman
Associated: 28/06/2024 - 27/06/2027
History Center
Doctoral student
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Research topics: History of early childhood education, History of gender, History of training, History of public policy and welfare, Contemporary history of France, England, Switzerland, and Turkey
Doctoral student
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Research topics: History of North Africa, Trans-imperial migration, legal practices
Doctoral student
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Research topics: Intellectual history, history of colonization, history of science and knowledge in East Africa
Doctoral student
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Research topics: Exit from war, victims of war, mental injuries, reparations.
Doctoral student
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Research topics: The Left, History of the Lefts, history of the Middle East, social movement
Doctoral student
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Research topics: Urban hydraulic infrastructures, history of contemporary Egypt, environmental history, economic history, informal imperialismel
Doctoral student
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Research topics: History of trans-Mediterranean circulation, exile and migrations, cosmopolitanism, and internationalism
Law School
Doctoral student
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She is currently pursuing her PhD in Law at Sciences Po in Paris, with her main interest revolving around International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and negotiations, which serves as the central focus of her doctoral research.
Her professional experience includes roles with the UNHCHR in Geneva and the International Centre for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) with a focus on the MENA region.
Visiting Associate Professor of Constitutional Law, Sciences Po & Associate Professor of Constitutional Law, An-Najah National University, Palestine
Doctoral student
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He is preparing a doctorate on decolonial theory and constitutional law.
His areas of interest include comparative constitutional law, the evolution of constitutionalism, particularly in the Arab world
Doctoral student
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His doctoral thesis evaluates the influence of media discourse on the law of war and the outcome of armed conflict - Middle East.
He also holds a degree in political science and international law, with a specialization in the Middle East and North Africa
Professor, Researcher
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Her research focuses mainly on issues relating to competition, development, and growth in countries of the South
Department of Economics
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Essays on the political economy of religion in the Middle East
Supervisor(s): Roberto Galbiati
Statut: Assistant Professor
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Development Economics, Culture, Gender, Applied Microeconomics
PSIA
Lecturer
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