Share Facebook X (ex-Twitter) Linkedin Copy url Henry Laurens - External activities Back to biography and publications Presentations at the Institut de Recherche et d'Études Méditerranée Moyen-Orient Israel - Palestine, the impossible peace The weight of history on the Orient - Introduction The Palestine question, the impossible peace (Henry Laurens and Dominique Vidal) History of the Maghreb, Near and Middle East, from the First World War to the present day Crises in the East (1768-1914) (Henry Laurens and Jean-Paul Chagnollaud) The turn of the Enlightenment The birth of the Middle East (1914-1949) Hashemite Jordan in a vice (Henry Laurens, Philippe Gunet, Hana Jaber and Caroline Ronsin) France in Mediterranean geopolitics in the 19th century The invention of the Mediterranean in the 19th century The colonial roots of France's Muslim policy (Henry Laurens and Jalila Sbaï) Chair Henry Laurens Contemporary History of the Arab World 2003 - today