Director of Contemporary Studies at the Institut français du Proche-Orient (IFPO) and research associate at the Contemporary History of the Arab World Chair (Collège de France) and at the Wits History Workshop (Johannesburg), my work focuses on the construction of politics in the contemporary era, comparing the development and fate of local entities within the Ottoman Empire and worlds affected by Zulu migrations over a long 19th century. They also concern more contemporary political upheavals. To this end, I regularly conduct fieldwork in the Middle East - with a residency in Syria from 2009 to 2013, and currently in Lebanon - or in southern Africa - from 2017 to 2021. Among major publications, I am the author of two books, L'Histoire de la Syrie XIXe-XXIe siècle (Fayard, 2018) and When the Parliaments ruled in the Middle East. Iraq and Syria 1946-1963 (AUC Press, 2022).
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Matthieu Rey
Associate researcher at the Contemporary History of the Arab World Chair
