ACSS-FMSH Program Fellows (2020)

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).

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.

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.

Munir Saidani is a professor of Sociology at the High Institute of Human Sciences, Tunis AL MANAR University, Tunisia. He is interested in socio-anthropology of culture, knowledge and art and 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 his field of interest from French and English into Arabic. He was the editor in chief and general supervisor of an edited 1418-page volume on the state of religion in Tunisia 2011-2015.  Saidani is leading a multidisciplinary research unit working on “Knowledges, Cultures and Social Change”.

Fellows

Tarek Bedhiouf

Nationality: Tunisian

Postdoctoral Affiliation: SIRICE - Université Paris 1

Project Title: la communauté corse et sa contribution à la colonisation française en Afrique du Nord

Ammar Kandeel

Nationality: Jordanian

Postdoctoral Affiliation: CRISES - Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires en Sciences Humaines et Sociales

Project Title: Ecrire l'histoire de la Palestine en France : réception et positionnements idéologiques et intellectuels des historiens français

Hind Sabri 

Nationality: Moroccan

Postdoctoral Affiliation: Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Recits, Cultures et Societes Equipe d'accueil 3159

Project Title: L’Eau et le Pouvoir dans le Bassin Méditerranéen : Une approche comparative entre deux modèles de gestion sociale de l’eau d’irrigation : L’arrière-pays niçois (Sud- Est de la France) et le Haut Atlas Occidental du Maroc

Mohammad Muhsen

Nationality: Palestinian

Postdoctoral Affiliation: ESO-Angers (UMR6590 CNRS)

Project Title: The Effects of Anthropogenic Activities on Landscape Changes of the Palestinian Central Mountains: Eastern Slopes of Jerusalem as a Case Study