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 2 - 2019

 

Selection Committee

Annie Tohme-Tabet is an anthropologist and a professor at Saint Joseph University in Beirut, she has developed significant experience in teaching and research. 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, migration trajectories, and 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 Rendered 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