Discussant : François Ceccaldi
Jean-Pierre Filiu is Professor of Contemporary Middle Eastern History at Sciences Po Paris. He has also been a visiting professor at Columbia and Georgetown universities in the USA. A former diplomat, he served in the French embassies in Syria, Tunisia and Jordan, as well as in the offices of the Minister of the Interior (1990-1991), the Minister of Defense (1991-1993) and the Prime Minister (2000-2002). He is the author of numerous books, translated into over fifteen languages, the most recent of which are Le Milieu des mondes - Une histoire laïque du Moyen-Orient depuis 395 (Seuil, 2021) and Stupéfiant Moyen-Orient (Seuil, 2023). Since 2015, he has publishedthe weekly column " Un si proche Orient " on the " Monde " website.
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) and Family and Jihadism in France, with Jérôme Ferret (Routledge, 2022).
François Ceccaldi is a political scientist with a doctorate in political studies from the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), and a research associate at the Contemporary History of the Arab Worldchairat the Collège de France. He is President of the Cercle des chercheurs sur le Moyen-Orient (CCMO) and also teaches at the Université Sorbonne Paris Nord (USPN - ATER) and at Sciences Po Paris. His research has focused on the PLO's left-wing factions and the formulation of a political opposition within the Palestinian national movement after the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993. He has published several analyses of Palestinian political dynamics, and more recently has been focusing on the question of power in Palestine.
