ACSS-FMSH Postdoctoral Mobility Fellows

The ACSS-FMSH Short-Term Postdoctoral Mobility Fellowship Program in the Social Sciences and Humanities is a joint program designed to support the research of postdoctoral fellows from Arab countries and to strengthen research networking and collaborations between Europe and the Arab region.

The program provides short-term fellowships (2-3 months) to individual researchers who are 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).

Cycle 1 - 2018

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 the Arab Council of Social Science (2015-2016). 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). 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) KnowledgeProduction 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/)

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 in social activism, transnational social movements and the diverse configurations of civil society organization and mobilization in the region.

Eberhard Kienleis Directeur de recherche (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