In partnership with the Collège de France, France Culture, AFP and France Médias Monde, the Institut du Monde Arabe is launching a new event to decipher current affairs.
Connected to the flow of information, the Rendez-vous de l'actualité is a moment of deciphering, exchange and perspective for all, on the latest events in the Arab world. Set a few days before the event, the subject, question or event discussed will be taken from the region's immediate news, so as to be as close as possible to what's happening.
Thursday June 28 at 7pm:
"Yemen: what's at stake in the Battle of Hodeida?
Speakers :
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Laurent Bonnefoy, CNRS Research Fellow, assigned to CERI/Sciences Po
Laurent Bonnefoy is a political scientist and Arabist, specializing in Islamist movements in the contemporary Arabian Peninsula.
Associate researcher at the Centre français d'archéologie et de sciences sociales de Sanaa (CEFAS), where he spent a total of four years between 2001 and 2009, he was a researcher at the Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo) and head of its Palestinian branch from 2010 to 2012. He is the author of Salafism in Yemen. Transnationalism and Religious Identity, and recently published Le Yémen: de l'Arabie heureuse à la guerre (Fayard). -
Hélène Thiollet, political scientist, CNRS-CERI Sciences Po researcher
Hélène Thiollet is a CNRS research fellow at CERI and a lecturer at Sciences Po. With Catherine Wihtol de Wenden, she coordinated the MobGlob program, funded by the French National Research Agency, on global mobility and migration governance.
Hélène Thiollet is a specialist in migration policies in the countries of the South, particularly in the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa. She has edited two books, Migrations en Méditerranée; Migrants, migrations : 50 questions pour vous faire votre opinion and Migrations en Méditerranée. She has also written numerous articles on migration and international politics in Yemen, Saudi Arabia and the Horn of Africa.
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Linda Al Obahi
Linda Al Obahi is a graduate of the École nationale d'administration, CELSA and Sciences Po Strasbourg. She has carried out numerous assignments with NGOs, including Médecins du Monde in 2011 and the Rabat office of the United Nations Refugee Agency in 2016.
Highly involved in the Yemen issue, where she is originally from, she coordinated between the Yemeni authorities and civil society in 2012. She was also political advisor to the French Embassy in Yemen, for the FEI project supporting the drafting of the new constitution from 2013 to 2016. In 2015, she was awarded the Medal of Honor by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development, for acts of courage and dedication performed in the service of France.
Hosted by :
- Anthony Bellanger, editorial writer, France Inter
Journalist, editorialist and historian, he is notably an international editorial columnist for Les Inrocks and France Inter.
