Cycle 7 - 2024

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.

Houssem Eddine Chachia is an Assistant Professor (HDR.) at the University of Tunis (Tunisia). Coordinator Tunisia of the program New Generation of Social Scientists in the Arab Region, at Arab Council for the Social Sciences (Beirut). He was a visiting fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies – at Harvard University (2017-2018). His primary area of research is Moriscos Studies, focusing on the processes and complexities of identity formation and the relationship between the Iberian Peninsula and the Maghreb in the early modern period. His recently publications include “The Morisco Landscape: Narratives of Expulsion in Modern Spanish Thought” [In Arabic] (640.pp, 2023); (Editor and Author.) “Tunisia, the Mediterranean, and the Moriscos: Tribute to Slimane Mostafa Zbiss and Mikel de Epalza” [In Spanish, English, French] (260.pp, 2023). Awarded as a best young researcher for the year 2020 (section history), presented by Beit al-Hikma (Tunisia), and the Arab Youth Award for Research and Religious Studies (2017), presented by Foundation Mominoon Without Borders (Morocco), and Ibn Battuta Award (2015), section Studies and edition, presented by the Arab Center for the travel literature (London-Abu Dhabi).

Driss Maghraoui est professeur associé en Histoire et Relations Internationale, à l’Ecole de Sciences Humaines et Sociales de l’Université d’Al Akhawayn (Ifrane, Maroc). Il était membre fondateur du Conseil Arabe pour les Sciences Sociales, et siège dans son conseil d’administration. Il est également membre fondateur de Rabat Social Studies Institute (RSSI). Il est co-éditeur de ‘Reforms in the Arab World: the Experience of Morocco’ dans la revue Mediterranean Politics (2009) et a dirigé la publication de Revisiting the Colonial Past in Morocco (Routledge, 2013). Plus récemment, il a co-édité L’immigration au Maroc : les défis de l’intégration, Fondation Heinrich Böll and RSSI, 2017.

Ses travaux les plus récents comprennent “Searching for Normalization: The Party of Justice and Development in Morocco”, in Julie Chernov and  Mecham Quinn Mecham  (Ed.); Strategies and Behavior of Islamist Political Parties: Comparative Lessons from Asia and the Middle East (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014) et “Morocco: Obedience, Civil Resistance, and Dispersed Solidarities” in Civil Resistance in the Arab World, Triumphs and Disasters, édité par Adam Roberts (Oxford University Press, 2016).

Fellows

Arwa Labidi

Nationality: Tunisian

Postdoctoral Affiliation: Centre d’histoire sociale des mondes contemporains

Project Title: “Au moins suspecte”. Surveillance et emprisonnement des femmes en contexte colonial tunisien (1911-1938)

Djaouida Lassel

Nationality: Algerian

Postdoctoral Affiliation: Laboratoire Population-Environnement-Développement LPED

Project Title: Le rôle de la solidarité familiale aux femmes agricultrices Pendant le confinement. Etude de cas : France-Algérie