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

Abdelali Gourfi

Nationality: Moroccan

Postdoctoral Affiliation: UMR 6590 CNRS – ESO Angers

Project Title: Le végétal en ville, le cas de Marrakech

 

Oussama Boufrikhai

Nationality: Tunisian

Postdoctoral Affiliation: Middle East Mediterranean Research Center

Project Title: The Social and Cultural construction of Ibadi/Algerian community in France

 

Dounia Laouar

Nationality: Algerian

Postdoctoral Affiliation: ENSA Toulouse

Project Title: L'impact des opérations de renouvellement urbain sur la sécurité dans les quartiers prioritaires : Les nouvelles formes urbaines sont-elles garantes de sécurité ?

 

Abdelmalik Atamena

Nationality: Algerian

Postdoctoral Affiliation: Interdisciplinary Institute of Contemporary Anthropology (IIAC)

Project Title: Germaine Tillion et Fanny Colonna au cœur de l’Aurès: Réconcilier les lieux, la vie et le savoir