As a doctoral student at the University of Paris-I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) under the supervision of Profs. Alya Aglan and Henry Laurens, my research deals with Georges Pompidou's Mediterranean policy during his presidential term (1969-1974). It aims to gain a better understanding of the permanence and mutations of French policy towards the Arab and Mediterranean world in the early 1970s, a period of political and economic transition. The aim is to reconstruct, mainly from diplomatic and presidential sources, the objectives and forms taken by political action, and to bring to light new actors and new diplomatic practices at different levels.
This work has led me to give regular presentations in France and abroad on the themes of the Cold War in the Arab world and Western policies towards the Arab and Mediterranean world. These presentations focus mainly on the emergence of a common European diplomacy and on key political players (Muammar Gaddafi under the gaze of French diplomacy) or more secondary ones such as Mahmoud Hamchari, the unofficial representative of the PLO assassinated in Paris in 1973, or the diplomat Jean-Bernard Raimond.
In addition to this research work, I participate in the activities of CCMO (Cercle des chercheurs sur le Moyen-Orient) and Sirice (Sorbonne-Identités, relations internationales et civilisations de l'Europe). I also teach history-geography and geopolitics full-time in secondary schools.
