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Jihane Sfeir

OMAM coordinator

Jihane Sfeir is a historian of the modern Arab world and a professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. She is the founder of the Observatoire des Mondes Arabe et Musulman (OMAM). A researcher attached to REPI (Recherche en Enseignement et Politique Internationale), she teaches the history of the Arab world, the Ottoman Empire and relations between Europe and the Arab world. Her research and publications focus on Palestinian refugees, archives, history, political thought and memory in the Arab world, with a particular focus on Lebanon. Her publications include :...

Postdoctoral Researcher

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Sadia Agsous-Bienstein

Sadia Agsous is a researcher in Arabic and Hebrew languages, literatures and cultures, teaches at the Department of Arabic Studies at the University of Paris - 8 Vincennes. Her research is rooted in cultural studies, translation studies and modern Arab thought and focuses on Palestinians in Israel, Jewish-Arab relations in Palestine and the "pre-1948" Palestinian cultural archive . She is currently working on her project “Unveiling the fight against antisemitism in Arabic textual and visual cultures (1894-Present day)”. Her book (2022) Derrière l’hébreu, l’arabe: Le roman palestinien en hébreu (1966...
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Elif Becan

After earning her bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Galatasaray University, Istanbul, she obtained her master's degree in History at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). In January 2021, she completed her dissertation titled “Une familière étrangeté. L’accueil des musulmans des Balkans en Turquie (1923-1964)” in Political Studies at EHESS. Her research focused on the categorization of foreigners in post-Ottoman Turkey, with a specific examination of the categories used in reception policies. From 2017 to 2022, she was responsible for the Ottoman Studies collection at the Collège...
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Hamza Esmili

I was trained as an anthropologist of religions at École normale supérieure de Paris and the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS). I defended my PhD at the latter (2021). Since then, I have been a postdoctoral researcher at the Social and Cultural Anthropology Department of the KU Leuven. I was also a visiting researcher at the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley (2019). My work revolves around the themes of persecution, hope, and the feeling of history amongst marginalized communities. I am especially...
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Suzan Gibril

Suzan Gibril is an F.R.S-F.N.R.S Post-Doctoral Fellow, affiliated to OMAM and the CEVIPOL research centre at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). Her fields of expertise include resistance and contentious politics in the Middle East, particularly through the use of the cultural sphere (music, street art and graffiti, performance arts), the links between collective action and power dynamics. Her main publications include "Methodological Individualism and Holism" in Morin J.F.; Olsson, C.; Atikcan O. Ö. (2020) Research Methods in the Social Sciences, London: Oxford University Press; the Palgrave International Handbook of...
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Omar Jabary Salamanca

Omar Jabary Salamanca is a FNRS Research Fellow at REPI (Recherche et Etudes en Politique Internationale). His research and teaching focus on histories, geographies and theories of development, political economy, political ecology, and science and technology studies in colonial contexts. He is also interested in global histories and archival practices of anti-colonial solidarity movements. Omar has published several scholarly articles, books chapters and edited compilations on themes related to the politics of urban infrastructures, settler colonialism and development studies. He is currently completing a book on the political lives of...
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Fadia Panossetti

Fadia Panosetti is a FNRS Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Cooperation and International Development (CECID-ULB). She is currently completing her dissertation on the politics of agrarian change in contemporary Palestine/Israel. Her work lies at the intersection of agrarian studies and political economy, settler colonialism and indigenous studies. She has published her work in Mondes en Développement, Antipode Online and Jerusalem Quarterly and, in 2021, she co-organized a series of workshops titled “Conversations about Kurdistan and Palestine: Rurality, Rural Lives, and Alternative Futures”. She is member of the research team...
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Jihan Safar

Intégrée au centre de recherche Philixte, Jihan Safar est post-doctorante Marie Sklodowska-Curie (oct.2024-2026) et travaille sur son projet "Women and Arabic Literacy in Congo during the Colonial Era : A Double Invisibility". Consacrée à la présence omanaise en Afrique de l’Est et en Afrique Centrale, cette recherche s’inscrit dans la continuité de ses travaux sur le genre, l’esclavage et le mariage au sultanat d’Oman. Son post-doctorat mené au REPI/OMAM-MSH (2022-2023) a porté sur "Kinship and Slavery in the Arabian Peninsula". Parmi ses publications: "Écrire l'esclavage au féminin: le roman contemporain...
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Jan Yasin Sunca

Je suis chercheur postdoctorant FNRS au REPI (Recherche et Études en Politique Internationale) à l'ULB. Mes recherches se concentrent sur l'émergence historique des imaginaires politiques radicaux et leur matérialisation, ainsi que sur les conflits armés et les processus de paix, dans une approche anticoloniale. Après avoir réalisé une thèse sur l'expérience politique du Kurdistan par rapport à la politique mondiale, j'élargis actuellement mes domaines d'étude vers l'Amérique latine, en particulier la Colombie et le Mexique. Contact : jan.yasin.sunca@ulb.be
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Mathilde Zederman

Mathilde Zederman is a FRS-FNRS postdoctoral researcher at the Free University of Brussels, attached to the Research Group on Ethnic Relations, Migration and Equality (GERME) and affiliated with OMAM since September 2022. She holds a PhD in political science from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS, University of London). Her research focuses on political engagement in exile, Tunisian mobilizations in France, research practices on Islam, and militant memories. Among his latest publications: "What place for Islam in the struggles of immigration?", introduction to the dossier "Engagements musulmans et...

Phd Student

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Selin Altunsoy

Selin Altunsoy est détentrice d’un Master en Langues et lettres orientales de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles obtenu en 2021 et a entamé sa thèse de doctorat la même année à l’ULB sous la direction de Xavier Luffin, en cotutelle à l’EHESS avec Alexandre Papas en Histoire et civilisations. Elle bénéficie d’une bourse FRESH (F.R.S. FNRS) depuis octobre 2023. Sa thèse de doctorat porte sur deux hikâye turques, Kerem ile Aslı et Ferhat ile Şirin, dont elle compare les motifs religieux dans le contexte de l’histoire intellectuelle et culturelle ottomane à...
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Fanny Arnulf

Fanny Arnulf is a PhD student and assistant in political science at ULB. Trained at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Art Dramatique de Montpellier (ENSAD), she participated in different artistic productions before starting a PhD in political science in 2019, attached to CEVIPOL. Her research focuses on the Middle East and Latin America and examines the link between art and resistance in marginalized spaces. Fanny is currently writing a thesis on theatre as a tool of resistance in the favelas in Brazil and the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. Her research...
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Layth Hanbali

Layth Hanbali is a PhD candidate in history at ULB, researching the history of Palestinian social movements in health, under a cooperation scholarship with Birzeit University. He is also coordinating the Institute for Palestine Studies project "Documenting the Targeting and Destruction of the Health Sector in the Gaza Strip." He has a background in medicine and community and public health, with a medical degree from University College London and master's degree in Health Policy, Planning and Financing from the London School of Economics and Political Science and the London School...
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Nelly Kechavarz

Née à Téhéran, Nelly Kechavarz grandit dans une famille évoluant dans le milieu de l’art et de la culture. C’est donc naturellement qu’elle intègre l’Académie royale des beaux-arts de Bruxelles en 1986, où elle travaille notamment sur la calligraphie persane, les formes sacrées et religieuses et l’aspect monumental des architectures persanes. À partir de 1989, elle expose ses œuvres en Belgique, en France et en Iran puis, en 1997, ouvre à Bruxelles un centre d’expression et de créativité (agréé par la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles) dont elle est encore à ce jour...
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Nadine Loutfi

Title of the PhD thesis “The Triangular Relation Between China, The United States and Saudi Arabia: The Strategic Issues of the Sino-Saudi Cooperation vis-a-vis the U.S. Strategy in the Middle East”. Nadine is a doctorate at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. The purpose of her doctoral thesis is to study the trilateral relationship between China, The United States and Saudi Arabia. It analyses the behavioural effet of a third state caused by the interaction of two states in bilateral relationship. Prior to her admittance to the PhD program, she obtained...
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Elsa Maarawi

Elsa Maarawi is a PhD student at the University of Picardie Jules Verne. After obtaining a Master's degree in International Cooperation in 2010, she worked in the humanitarian and development field, in the Middle East, Chad and Haiti, with several international organizations. Since 2017, she has specialized in gender issues in migration and development projects. Since 2020, she is conducting a thesis on the migration paths of Syrians who fled the conflict after 2011. Her research questions the effects and experiences of migration on the reconfiguration of gender roles within...
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Orouba Othman

A PhD candidate in Humanities and Social Sciences at Birzeit University and a lecturer at social sciences department in Bethlehem University. Her scholarly work focuses on futurity and anthropology of hope and destiny, sociology of pain and emotions, settler colonialism and Zionism, post-colonialism and cultural studies. She was granted Elias Khoury prize for excellence and creative research in 2016 in Masters' degree in Israeli studies at Birzeit university. She recently published a chapter titled “Antisemitism and its Contemporary Version: The Jewish as the Enemy of the Zionist Palestine” in the...
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Marie Ruyffelaere

Marie is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the centre of Research and Studies in International Politics (REPI) at the ULB and a researcher at the Observatoire des Mondes Arabes et Musulmans (OMAM) under the supervision of Prof. Jihane Sfeir. She is interested in contemporary Euro-Mediterranean relations and her PhD research deals with EU-Egypt relations after 2011. Before pursuing a PhD, she graduated with a master's degree in development studies with great distinction at the ULB in 2020. She was an intern at the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Cairo...
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Sarah Sheikh Ali

"Sarah, a dedicated researcher and human rights advocate from Lebanon, is deeply committed to bridging academia and activism in the fight against patriarchy and atrocities. Her work focuses on advocating for the involvement of exiled activists in effecting change in their home countries. Currently pursuing her Ph.D. in political science, with a specialization in migration and gender, at Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Sarah is affiliated with REPI and OMAM. Furthermore, she serves as the co-founder and executive director of HuMENA for Human Rights and Civic Engagement. Sarah brings a wealth...
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Sofia Stimmatini

Sofia Stimmatini a obtenu un double diplôme en anthropologie en 2019 à l'Université Libre de Bruxelles et à Aix-Marseille Université. Après une année d'assistanat, elle est devenue Aspirante F.R.S.-FNRS en 2022. Sa thèse, réalisée en co-tutelle avec l'Università di Bologna, est dirigée par Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot et Vanessa Grotti. Son travail doctoral propose de décentraliser le regard sur les morts liées à la migration en se concentrant sur "ceux qui restent" dans les pays de départ, plutôt que sur les corps sans vie retrouvés sur les plages. En se basant sur...
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Thomas Vescovi

Thomas Vescovi est doctorant en sciences politiques dans le cadre d'une co-tutelle entre l'ULB et l'EHESS. Il s’intéresse particulièrement aux dynamiques socio-politiques au sein de la société israélienne, et dans ses relations au peuple palestinien. Son premier travail de recherche s'est effectué à l'Université Paris 8 dans le cadre d'un Master mention histoire et civilisations. Son mémoire d'étude, intitulé "La mémoire de la nakba en Israël. Le regard de la société israélienne sur la tragédie palestinienne" a été publié aux éditions de L'Harmattan (2015). Il a également publié "L'échec d'une...

Associated researcher

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Caroline Azad

Caroline Azad est journaliste et docteure en sciences politiques et sociales. A la suite d'un long séjour en République islamique d'Iran, elle a réalisé une thèse sur la résistance des Iraniennes dans le sport, et plus particulièrement le football. Ses recherches portent sur la contribution et la médiatisation des femmes dans le domaine du sport. Elle est également spécialisée dans les stratégies de résistance mises en place par ces dernières en contextes politiques autoritaires. Contact
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Ghazi Ben Ahmed

Ghazi Ben Ahmed est Docteur en économie de l'Université de Montpellier I. Il dirige le Think Tank "Mediterranean Development Initiative - MDI" basé à Tunis et à Bruxelles. Il est Collaborateur scientifique au sein de l'Observatoire des Mondes Arabes et Musulmans OMAM/ULB. Il est l'auteur d'un livre paru récemment aux éditions l'Harmattan ("Echos de Tunisie, populisme, transition et espoirs de démocratie"). Son intérêt de recherche porte principalement sur les relations Euro-méditerranéennes, les accords ALECA, les accords migratoires; et la coopération européenne et la montée des extremes droites en Europe....
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Tasnim Butt

Tasnim Butt est actuellement directrice de l’Institut de Promotion des formations sur l’Islam (IPFI), une institution publique belge qui, sous la coupole du Ministère de l’enseignement supérieur, est en charge de financer des formations sur l’islam dans toutes les universités francophones de la Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles (FWB). Au préalable, elle a été assistante au sein du Master en Sciences de la population et du développement à l’ULB où, outre l’encadrement, le suivi et l’évaluation des stages, elle a dispensé des séminaires autour de la méthodologie de recherche, le terrorisme international...
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Tal Dor

Tal Dor est sociologue et pédagogue critique. Elle est Maîtresse de Conférence au Département d'études moyen-orientales (DEMO) Faculté ALLSH, Aix-Marseille Université et Membre de l'Institut de recherches et d'études sur les mondes arabes et musulmans (IREMAM) à la MMSH. Elle est co-auteur de l’ouvrage, « Rencontres radicales Pour des dialogues féministes décoloniaux » aux éditions Cambourakis et a co-coordoné l’ouvrage « Colonialité et ruptures. Écrits sur les figures juives arabes » d’Ella Shohat aux éditions LUX. Ses travaux portent sur les processus de libération de conscience politique de personnes engagées...
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Soraya El Kahlaoui

Soraya El Kahlaoui, a Ph.D. holder in sociology from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, is currently a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action Global fellow at Ghent University and Bir Zeit University. Her research, which examines the mechanisms of dispossession in the MENA region and the formation of property rights, is notable for its innovative perspective on the dynamics of social and political transformation in the MENA region post-2011. With a focus on Morocco, Tunisia, and Palestine, her work offers a fresh and unique angle. In addition to her academic...
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Virginia Fanny Faccenda

Full-time assistant and PhD student in political science at the Université Saint-Louis, Brussels. My thesis focuses on the government of Syrian mobility in Belgium since the 1970s. In order to contribute to the study of Syrian migration in Belgium, this research adopts a longer historical perspective, i.e. it aims to study Syrian mobility to Belgium from the 1970s to the present. It questions the trajectories of mobility, the government of itinerancy, the integration of the different Syrian migratory flows in Belgium, in order to understand how the more recent refugees...
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Samah Hijawi

Samah Hijawi is an artist and researcher currently doing her PhD in Art Practice at ULB and the Academie Royale Des Beaux Art de Bruxelles, Belgium. In her multi-media works she is exploring the aesthetics of representation in artworks that allude to the histories of Palestine. Her works have been shown in The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Brussels, Museum M, The Hayward Gallery in London, BOZAR and Beurscchouwburg in Brussels, Bureau Europa- Maastricht, MoMa and Apex Art - New York; Darat al Funun - Amman, among others. She previously...
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Didier Leroy

Didier LEROY’s multidisciplinary academic career enabled him to obtain a master’s degree in Oriental Philology and History (Assyriology), a master’s degree in Religious Studies (Islamology) and a transdisciplinary master’s degree in Advanced Studies (Contemporary Challenges and Debates) at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). He then defended a PhD thesis in Social, Political and Military Sciences on the ideological and structural evolution of Lebanese Hezbollah, under the joint supervision of the ULB and the Royal Military Academy (RMA). Contact Didier Leroy
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Gaetan Roy

Gaétan du Roy holds a doctorate from UCLouvain and has completed research stays at the University of Pennsylvania and the Berlin Graduate School - Muslim Cultures and Societies. He is currently a researcher at the Radboud University of Nijmegen (Netherlands) and visiting professor at the Université Saint-Louis - Brussels. He is a historian of the present time specializing in urban and religious issues in Egypt and is also interested in religious diasporas in Europe. His research is based on an ethnohistorical perspective, which consists in crossing the results of field...
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Sahar Aurore Saeidnia

Sahar Aurore Saeidnia is a researcher at Institut français du Proche-Orient in Beirut, Lebanon. She was a Cofund MARIE CURIE postdoctoral researcher at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) (2019-2022) and a Gerda Henkel postdoctoral researcher at IREMAM (2017-2019). She holds a Ph.D in sociology from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS Paris). Her research interests have revolved around three main axes related to the Iranian and Lebanese fieldworks: developing a comparative anthropological approach of health politics, reflecting on the circulations of knowledge and norms (from global...
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Hamid Sayf Shemsulden

I hold a PhD in Letters, Languages, and Translation Studies from ULB (Université Libre de Bruxelles), where I wrote my thesis entitled The Presence of the Other in Iraqi Jewish Literature. My academic background also includes a Master's degree in Modern Languages and Letters, Oriental specialization, with a focus on the Arab-Muslim world (advanced level), obtained at ULB. Having grown up in Iraq and completed my elementary, secondary, and undergraduate studies in that country, I possess a deep understanding of Arabic language, history, and literature, from the pre-Islamic era to...
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Sbeih Sbeih

Sbeih Sbeih is a sociologist and researcher associated with the Institute for Research and Studies on Arab and Muslim Worlds (IREMAM-Aix en Provence). After teaching in Palestinian universities, he conducted several research projects in Palestinian, Arab and French institutions. His research focuses on development and culture in Palestine, in particular on the "professionalization" of associative action under the pressure of donors, as well as on art and literature in the new condition created in Palestine after the establishment of the Palestinian Authority. During his research, he has been working on...
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Ragnar Weilandt

Ragnar Weilandt completed his PhD on EU democracy promotion in Tunisia at the Université libre de Bruxelles and the University of Warwick as part of the GEM programme. He is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the Reconfiguring EU Democracy Support (REDEMOS) project at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim. His research interests include EU external action, Euro-Mediterranean relations as well as the politics and international relations of West Asia and North Africa. Complet Profil Contact Ragnar Weilandt

Academic

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Irene Di Jorio

Docteure en Histoire de l’Europe à l’Université de Bologne et à l’Université Paris X-Nanterre, Irene Di Jorio est titulaire depuis 2007 de la chaire d’Histoire de la Communication de masse de l’ULB. Ses recherches portent sur l’histoire des techniques, des théories et des professions de la communication, avec une attention particulière pour les transferts de « savoirs » et de compétences entre pays, régimes politiques et domaines différents (politique, militaire, commercial).
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Isil Erdinc

Isil Erdinc est titulaire de la Chaire en politiques sociales au département des sciences sociales et des sciences du travail à l'Université libre de Bruxelles et rattachée au Centre de recherche METICES (Migrations, espaces, travail, institutions, citoyenneté, épistémologie, santé) depuis octobre 2021. Elle est chargée de cours au département des sciences sociales et des sciences du travail de la Faculté de philosophie et sciences sociales. Docteure en science politique de l'Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, elle est membre associée au Centre d'études turques, ottomanes, balkaniques et centrasiatique de l'EHESS. Ses domaines...
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Abdellali Hajjat

Abdellali Hajjat is Associate Professor in sociology at the Université libre de Bruxelles and a member of the Group for Research on Ethnic Relations, Migration & Equality. He was Associate Professor in political science at the University of Paris Nanterre (2010-2019) and EURIAS Junior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (University of Edinburgh). In 2022, he was awarded the Tyler Stovall Mission Prize by the Western Society for French History. He co-authored Islamophobia in France. The Construction of the “Muslim problem” (University of Georgia Press, 2023),...
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Thierry Kellner

Thierry Kellner holds a doctorate in international relations from the Graduate Institute of International Studies (IUHEI) in Geneva, and is a lecturer in the Political Science Department of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), where he holds the "China Mini-Chair" and teaches Chinese foreign policy. He is associated with several ULB research centers (REPI, OMAM, IEE) and with the Groupe de recherche et d'information sur la paix et la sécurité (GRIP, Brussels). His main research interests are related to Chinese and Iranian foreign policy. He has published numerous studies (books,...
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Christian Olsson

Christian Olsson est professeur de relations internationales à l’Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). Il est directeur de son centre de recherche REPI (Recherche et Etudes en Politique Internationale). Il est membre du CREG (Centre de recherche sur l’expérience de guerre). Son intérêt de recherche porte principalement sur les confits armés et les interventions militaires, en particulier dans le grand Moyen Orient, la sociologie historique des pratiques de sécurité, le rôle des sociétés militaires privées dans les interventions militaires récentes, en particulier en Afghanistan et en Irak ou il a fait...
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Elenie Sarciat

Doctorante Aspirant F.R.S. - FNRS

Elenie Sarciat est doctorante à l'ULB en socio-anthropologie de la migration avec un mandat Aspirant F.R.S. - FNRS 2024-2026 après l'obtention d'une bourse Seed Money 2023-2024. Elle travaille sous la direction de Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot (ULB, LAMC) en co-tutelle avec Anaïk Pian (Unistra, LinCs). Elle a obtenu le prix Marcel Bolle de Bal de la faculté de Philosophie et Sciences Sociales de l'ULB en 2024 pour son mémoire dirigé par Andrea Rea (ULB, GERME). Profil LAMC Contacter Elenie Sarciat