Moderated by : Henry Laurens
Farhad Khosrokhavar is Director of Studies Emeritus at EHESS. His research focuses on the sociology of contemporary Iran and the social and anthropological problems of Islam in France. He is director of the Centre d'analyse et d'intervention sociologiques (CADIS, EHESS-CNRS). His publications include Le Nouveau Jihad en Occident (R. Laffont, 2018), Prisons de France (R. Laffont, 2016), and more recently Jihadism in Europe (Oxford University Press, 2021), Family and Jihadism in France, with Jérôme Ferret (Routledge, 2022) and L'Iran : la jeunesse démocratique face à l'État prédateur (Éditions Les Fauves, 2023).
Stéphane Lacroix is a political scientist, professor at Sciences Po's School of International Affairs (PSIA), co-director of the Chair of Religious Studies at Sciences Po and researcher at CERI. He is the author of numerous books on Saudi Arabia, Egypt and political Islam, including most recently Le Crépuscule des Saints - Histoire et politique du salafisme en Égypte (CNRS éditions, 2024), in addition to Perspectives comparées sur les politiques de lutte contre la radicalisation, edited with Juliette Galonnier and Nadia Marzouki (Presses de Sciences Po, 2022), Awakening Islam. The Politics of Religious Dissent in Contemporary Saudi Arabia (Harvard University Press, 2011), Les Islamistes saoudiens. Une insurrection manquée (PUF, 2010).
Bayram Balci is a research engineer (HDR) at the CNRS, and holds a doctorate in political science obtained in 2001 at the Instituts d'études politiques d'Aix-en-Provence and Grenoble. In 2016, he obtained his habilitation to direct research at Sciences Po Paris. His doctoral thesis and post-doctoral research focused on Turkish, Arab, Iranian and Indo-Pakistani Islamization movements in post-Soviet Central Asia and the Caucasus. From 2006 to 2010, he directed the French Institute for Central Asian Studies (IFEAC) in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. From December 2012 to September 2014, he was a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington DC and researcher and director at the French Institute of Anatolian Studies in Istanbul between 2017 and 2022. His current research focuses on the relations between Islam and politics in the post-Soviet space and on Turkey in its regional environment, Caucasus, Central Asia, Middle East. Turkey in Africa and Africa in Turkey is his next research program.
