Moderated by : Agnès Levallois
Manon-Nour Tannous holds a doctorate in international relations and is a lecturer at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (CRDT), and a research associate at the Contemporary History of the Arab World chairat the Collège de France and at the Thucydides Center at the University of Paris-Panthéon-Assas. Her work focuses on the Syrian crisis, its international dynamics and the making of foreign policy. She is the author of Chirac, Assad et les autres. Les relations franco-syriennes depuis 1946 (PUF, 2017), La Syrie au-delà de la guerre (Le Cavalier Bleu, 2022), and edited the collective work Fréquenter les infréquentables. Le choix des interlocuteurs en diplomatie (CNRS Éditions, 2023). She has chaired the Cercle des chercheurs sur le Moyen-Orient (CCMO) and is currently editor-in-chief of the journal Mondes arabes.
Loulouwa Al-Rachid is a researcher specializing in Iraq and Baathist authoritarianism. Shewas a postdoctoral fellow in the European WAFAW program (When Authoritarianism Fails in the Arab World) and a doctoral student at the Centre de recherches internationales (CERI) at Sciences Po Paris, where in 2010 she defended a thesis in political science entitled " Iraq from embargo to occupation : the decline of a political order (1990-2003) ". She was the lead analyst on Iraq for the International Crisis Group (2001-2006 and 2009-2011) and co-director of the program on civil-military relations in Arab countries at the Carnegie Middle East Center.
Stéphane Malsagne has a degree in history and geography and a doctorate in history from the University of Paris I. He is a specialist in Middle Eastern history. He is a regular speaker at Sciences-Po Paris. His books include Le Liban en guerre (1975-1990) (Belin, 2020, with Dima de Clerck), Sous l'œil de la diplomatie française. Le Liban de 1946 à 1990 (Geuthner, 2017 - prix Diane Potier-Boès 2018 de l'Académie française) ;Au cœur du grand jeu : la France en Orient. Charles-Eudes Bonin, explorateur et diplomate (1865-1929) (Geuthner, 2015), and Fouad Chéhab (1902-1973), une figure oubliée de l'histoire libanaise, (Karthala-Ifpo, 2011).
Agnès Levallois is vice-president of the Institut de recherche et d'études Méditerranée Moyen-Orient (iReMMO), lecturer at the Fondation pour la recherche stratégique, Middle East consultant and lecturer at Sciences Po Paris. She was a Middle East analyst at the General Secretariat for National Defense, then head of the Arab and Persian World Office at the Ministry of Defense's Delegation for Strategic Affairs. She also worked as a journalist for Nord Sud Export, part of the Le Monde group, and as a contributor to Le Monde de l'économie, before becoming news and program director for RMC MO - theArabic-language subsidiary of RFI - and then deputy editorial director for France 24, in charge of Arabic-language content. She is also a member of the editorial board of the magazine Confluences Méditerranée.
