Visiting reseachers (délégation CNRS)
ARBACH Mounir
BEN LAGHA Zaineb
BONNEFOY Laurent
CRASSARD Rémy
LAGRANGE Frédéric
MOUTON Michel
PÉTRIAT Philippe
VAUTHIER Elisabeth
ARBACH Mounir
Research Director at CNRS-CEFREPA, Epigraphist and historian (History and civilization of pre-Islamic South Arabia). Specialized in ancient South Arabia, works on Yemen, Oman and Saudi Arabia.
mounir.arbach@cnrs.fr
BEN LAGHA Zaïneb
Lecturer in modern Arabic literature at Sorbonne Nouvelle University, she is deputy director of the Center for Arab and Oriental Studies (USN). She is currently on a CNRS delegation to CEFREPA at Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi.
zaineb.ben-lagha@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr
BONNEFOY Laurent
CNRS researcher in political science. He is an associate researcher at CEFREPA, assigned to the Sciences Po International Research Center in Paris. Born in 1980, Arabic-speaking, he is a specialist in Salafist movements and the contemporary Arabian Peninsula. He has notably worked on political mobilizations in Yemen and the construction of religious identities. He was assigned to CEFREPA between 2018 and 2021, based in Muscat, visiting researcher at the Center for Omani Studies at Sultan Qaboos University. He is editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal Arabian Humanities published twice a year by CEFREPA, and a member of the online media publishing committee Orient XXI.
laurent.bonnefoy@sciencespo.fr
CRASSARD Remy
Archaeologist and permanent researcher at the CNRS since 2010, Rémy Crassard was previously a doctoral student at CEFAS Yemen (2004-2007). After obtaining a doctorate in anthropology from the University of the Sorbonne in Paris (2007), he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cambridge (2007-2009). A specialist in the prehistory of the Arabian Peninsula, he is a permanent member of several international archaeological projects. He led the ANR Globalkites project (2013-2017) and since 2020 has directed the prehistory component of the Khaybar Longue Duration Archaeological Project (Saudi Arabia). He was appointed to CEFAS Kuwait from 2017 to 2020, as a permanent researcher and head of archeology at CEFAS. Since the end of 2020, he has been deputy director of the CNRS Archéorient laboratory in Lyon, associate researcher at CEFREPA, and continues to direct Axis 1 “Archaeology” of CEFREPA.
LAGRANGE Frederic
Professor of Arabic studies at Sorbonne University. His work focuses on Arabic literature, classical and modern, gender studies and cultural studies. He is also the translator of Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī, The Satire of the Two Viziers, Hoda Barakat, The Plowman of the Waters, the Egyptians Khayri Shalabi, The Time of Kif and Mohamed Rabie, Three Seasons in Hell as well as the Saudi Abdo Khal, The Low Works. He recently became interested in the production of mediated popular cultures, publishing with R. Jacquemond Pop Culture in Egypt, Entre mainstream commercial et protest (2020) and following a delegation to CEFREPA in Abu Dhabi (2019-2021) he co-edited with L. Assaf and C. Chaveneau two issues of Arabian Humanities devoted to Pop Culture in the Arabian Peninsula (14-2020 and 18-2024), including two articles on the representations of the other immigrant in Gulf cultural productions.
frederic.lagrange@sorbonne.ae
MOUTON Michel
Archaeologist, research director at CNRS, director of the French Institute of the Near East (Ifpo) from 2017 to 2021, director of CEFAS (current CEFREPA) from 2013 to 2017, deputy director of FRE 2550 of the CNRS (Ifpo) in 2003-2004, secretary general of the French Institute of Archeology of the Near East (IFAPO) from 2000 to 2002). His research focuses on the ancient kingdoms of the Arabian Peninsula (from the end of the 2nd millennium BC to the beginning of Islam): director of the Archaeological Mission in Sharjah (1991-1997), of the Archaeological Mission in the Jawf-Hadramawt (1996-2006), of the EARLYPETRA project of the ANR/DFG with S. Schmid (2008-2011).
michel.mouton@cnrs.fr
PETRIAT Philippe
Historian, lecturer in contemporary history of the Middle East at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, researcher at the Institute of Modern and Contemporary History (CNRS). Specialist in the contemporary history of the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf.
Philippe.Petriat@univ-paris1.fr
VAUTHIER Elisabeth
Arabist, professor of Arabic language and literature at Jean Moulin University – Lyon 3, my research focuses on the contemporary Arabic novel and its developments since the end of the 20th century, and in particular on the following themes: Fictional spaces and sociabilities in the novel , Aesthetics of violence in contemporary novel writing and Social & political symbolism of the novelistic body
elisabeth.vauthier@univ-lyon3.fr
