CV
CV
Positions
Research fellow
French Institute of Oriental Archaeology (Ifao) • Cairo, Egypt
Project: “Egypt and its Indian Horizon (1860s–1960s): Egyptian Ethnology and Diplomacy in India”
Doctoral Researcher & Teaching Assistant (fully funded PhD contract)
Sorbonne University • Paris, France
(See below)
Education
Ph.D. in Modern History of Muslim and Arab Societies
Sorbonne University • Paris, France
Thesis: "Définir le juste milieu : histoire du concept de « classe moyenne » dans l'Égypte de Nasser (1952-1970)"
Supervisor: Prof. Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen
CNU “Qualification” in History obtained in 2025
DOI 10.70675/f4d43398z5e23z4225zb0e0z791d55d42573
BA in Modern Standard Arabic and Egyptian Dialect
National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilisations (Inalco) • Paris, France
Training courses in Modern Standard Arabic and Egyptian Arabic
French Institute (DEAC) • Cairo, Egypt
Élève normalienne
École Normale Supérieure (ENS) • Lyon, France
- M2 “al-Kātib, a Nasserist socialist journal (1961-1967)”, Prof. Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen (in French)
- M1 “The Syriac Orthodox Diaspora of Jerusalem (1831–1948): Pilgrims, Refugees, and Community Building in the Ottoman and Mandate Periods”, Prof. Bernard Heyberger (in French).
- Agrégation (Competitive exam for teaching), successful candidate in 2018
- BA in History (Lyon 3)
Classe préparatoire AL (Hypokhâgne-Khâgne)
Lycée Ste-Marie • Lyon, France
Two-year intensive foundation degree in literature and human sciences preparing for the national competitive exam for entry to the ENS. Successful candidate in 2015.
Honors / Grants
Shortlisted and ranked second after interview, for tenure-track professorship in Contemporary Middle East Studies
Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven • Leuven, Belgium
Thesis Prize in Social History
Fondation Mattei Dogan and Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH) • Paris, France
Mention of the jury for the Thesis Prize “Islam, Middle East and Muslim Worlds”
IISMM and GIS-MOMM • Paris, France
Monthly research grant
French Institute of Oriental Archaeology (Ifao) • Cairo, Egypt
DAAD Research Scholarship
One-Year Grants for Doctoral Candidates
Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) • Berlin, Germany
Monthly research grant
French Institute of Oriental Archaeology (Ifao) • Cairo, Egypt
Teaching
Co-instructor for the PredicMO Summer School
French Institute of Oriental Archaeology (Ifao) • Cairo, Egypt
“Decompartementalizing the Study of Religion. The Middle East and Its Diasporas (late 19th – 21st centuries). Lexis, Mapping and Staging” (ANR PredicMO)
National examiner for the history examination
École Normale Supérieure (ENS) • Lyon, France
Instructor
Cours de l'Ifao
French Institute of Oriental Archaeology (Ifao) • Cairo, Egypt
“L’islam soufi dans l’Égypte khédiviale et monarchique: spiritualité élitiste ou piété populaire?”
Instructor
University Certificate in Islamic Studies
Dominican Institute of Oriental Studies (Idéo) • Cairo, Egypt
A French-language programme offered to Egyptian students at Master's level, in partnership with the French Institute of Islamic Studies (IFI).
Co-instructor
“Writing Modern History”
French Institute of Oriental Archaeology (Ifao) • Cairo, Egypt
2nd Edition of the workshop for Egyptian graduate and postgraduate Students (in Arabic)
with Amr Khairy & Dina Bakhoum
Instructor
“De l’étrangeté familière : l’horizon indien de l’Égypte (1870-1964)”
French Institute of Oriental Archaeology (Ifao) • Cairo, Egypt
Co-instructor
“Writing Modern History”
French Institute of Oriental Archaeology (Ifao) • Cairo, Egypt
1st Edition of the workshop for Egyptian graduate and postgraduate Students (in Arabic)
with Amr Khairy & Dina Bakhoum
Instructor
BA Students’ Tutorials
Sorbonne University • Paris, France
“History of Modern Islam: Women and Families in the Middle East (17th-21th century)”
Instructor (BA Students’ Tutorials)
“Socio-Economic History of the Modern Maghreb and Middle East (20th century)”
Sorbonne University • Paris
Instructor (BA Students’ Tutorials)
“The Arab Provinces of the Ottoman Empire (17th – 19th Century)”.
Sorbonne University • Paris
Co-Instructor (MA Students)
"Writing the Social and Cultural History of the Middle East”
Sorbonne University • Paris
Service to academic journals
Since April 2022, Editorial Secretary of the Mélanges de l’Institut dominicain d’études orientales (Midéo)
Peer-review for Livre blanc du Gis (3/2024)
Reviewer for the American Historical Review
Service to the profession
Co-organizer of the young scholars’ network
“New Perspectives on South-Asian and Middle Eastern Connections in the 20th Century”
with Simon Conrad
Alternate Representative of the Research Fellows at Ifao
speciality: Open Science and Website
Ifao • Cairo
Alternate Representative of the Ph.D. Students in the Doctoral School
“Histoire moderne et contemporaine” (ED 188).
Webmaster for the Halqa
association of Ph.D Students Specialists of the Modern and Contemporary Muslim Worlds.
Member of the organizing committee of the Doctoriales
du Centre d’Histoire du XIXe siècle
2 edited issues of the Centre’s journal, Page 19
Free-lance editor for Dygest
reviews of more than twenty books in social sciences and Islamic studies.
Academic affiliations
- Associate Researcher, Centre d’études et de documentation économiques, juridiques et sociales (Cedej), Cairo, Egypt. 09/2025 – Present
- Research Fellow, French Institute of Oriental Archaeology (Ifao), Cairo, Egypt. 09/2024 – Present
- Member, Société asiatique, Paris, France. 01/2024 – Present
- DAAD Doctoral Student, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin, Germany. 10/2022 – 10/2023
- Doctoral Member, EGYCLASS network (CNRS-Cedej), Cairo, Egypt. 09/2021 – 09/2023
- Doctoral Student, Centre d’Histoire du XIXe siècle, Sorbonne University, Paris, France. 09/2020 – 06/2024
- Elève normalienne, Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Lyon, Lyon, France. 09/2015 – 09/2020
Languages
- French (Native), English (C1), Arabic (Modern Standard and Egyptian - B2), German (B2)