ACSS-FMSH Program Fellows (2023)
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 6 - 2023
Selection Committee
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 a 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, 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 whom he is the general supervisor and the 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 in Spanish, Farsi and Zulu.
Fellows
Elhadj Ould Brahim
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
Ouafaa Bouhdoud
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
Alla-Eddine Fenchouch
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
Yassine Temlali
Nationality: Algerian
Postdoctoral Affiliation: L’Institut d’Histoire du Temps Présent - IHTP
Project Title: Algérie: arabisation et francophonie (1962-2019)
