After the Arab revolutions


My research journey started with the Arab revolutions and was shaped by notions such as historical consciousness, religions translations, utopia and counter-utopia. It has led me to conduct fieldwork in Morocco (2013-2015), Syria (2016-2017), Iraq (2017), the Rif (2017), and Lebanon (2022-2023). See more about it here.

In the light of Tradition


I have slowly specialized in the social anthropology of religion. My PhD dissertation (EHESS, 2021) was dedicated to renewed understandings of the Islamic tradition amongst marginalized communities in France. An ethnographic work, it has mostly taken place in Clichy-sous-Bois, where the 2005 banlieues uprisings started. See more about it here.

Waiting for the Mahdi


My next research project consists in a study of modern and contemporary mahdism (Islamic messianism). I intend to compare Morocco and Senegal, both in the French colonial era and nowadays. I am interested in the experience of existential crises and religious aspirations that emerge in such context. See more about it here.

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