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Mondes arabes at the Rendez-vous de la bibliothèque at the Jacques-Berque Center
Mondes arabes, une “nouvelle” revue : génèse, projet éditorial et production
January 22nd 2025 at 5pm
Mondes Arabes will be present at the Jacques Berque Center, in Rabat, on January 22nd, to give a presentation and host a writing workshop.
with Amin Allal (CNRS, CERAPS Lille), Yasmine Berriane (CNRS, CMH Paris) and Zoé Carle (IUF Paris 8)

Thematic issue: Tourism and the reconfiguration of religious itineraries
Religious tourism and its mechanisms in the Middle East and the Maghreb: Reconfiguring discourses, experiences and itineraries
Katia Boissevain et Norig Neveu
The globalized hajj . Promoting tourism at the risk of sacredness?
Sylvia Chiffoleau
The politics of security and logistics: Managing the Arba‘īn visitation to Karbala
Géraldine Chatelard
Walking in the footsteps of Abraham? Creation, implementation and collapse of a hiking trail in Palestine
Manoël Pénicaud
« This is a call from the holy land ». Political and religious anthropology of the Muslim pious visit in the Isreali-Palestinian space: A pilgrimage under constraint
Elsa Grugeon
Preserving in situ a cultural heritage, maintaining the presence of an absence: The example of the Jews in Egypt
Michèle Baussant
Interview
“Arab worlds” in Argentina: Toward the emergence of South-South research? An interview with Carolina Bracco, Julieta Chinchilla and Mariela Cuadro
Conducted, translated from the Spanish and annotated by Yasmine Berriane
Books, Sounds & Images
Mona Oraby, Devotion to the Administrative State. Religion and Social Order in Egypt Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2024
Par Alexis Blouët
Antoine Perrier, Monarchies du Maghreb. L’État au Maroc et en Tunisie sous protectorat (1881-1956), Paris, Éditions de l’EHESS, 2023
Par Malik Mouakher
William Carruthers, Flooded Pasts. UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archeology, Ithaca/Londres, Cornell University Press, 2022
Par Mayada Madbouly
Fifth issue :
Migration and politics
Mondes arabes #5, June 2024

In memoriam, François Gèze
Manon-Nour Tannous
Thematic issue: Migration and politics
Political migration? From the Arab world to Turkey, between politics and exile and foreign policies
Yohanan Benhaim, Nouran Gad & Enrique Klaus
Co-producing state transnationalism: The Iraqi Turkmen community in Turkey and Turkish foreign policy in Iraq
Yohanan Benhaim
(De)politicization by businessmen, transnational connexions and entrepreneurial citizenship policy in Turkey
Dilek Yankaya
A second political life in Turkey. The Islahi conception of transnational activism in the Yemeni community
Mustafa Naji Aljabzi
Arab media in Instabul: Oppositional journalism, politicization, and forces allegiances
Nouran Gad
Women who talk (to me): What negotiating fieldwork says about militia disengagements
Floriane Soulié-Caraguel
Books, Sounds & Images
Fourth issue :
Syrian exile and urban life
Mondes arabes #4, December 2023

Thematic issue: Syrian exile and urban life
Urban life in exile. Syrian refugees in the Near East
Jalal AL HUSSEINI, Kamel DORAÏ, Delphine MERCIER, Béatrice MÉSINI & Virginie BABY-COLLIN
Refugees in a city without rights: Living in a disputed refuge area in Lebanon
Leïla DRIF
Finding a place in Beirut: Between practices of subsistence and forms of resistance among second-hand clothes traders
Emmanuelle DURAND
Spatial resources of a business network in exile: the case of Syrian entrepreneurs in Irbid
Héloïse PEAUCELLE
The pioneering itinerary of a Saudi intellectual in exile: Interview with Madawi Al-Rasheed
Conducted by Claire BEAUGRAND
Books, sounds & images
Camille ABESCAT
Muriam HALEH DAVIS, Markets of Civilization. Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria, Durham, Duke University Press, 2022, 288 p.
Louise BONHOMME
Eberhard KIENLE, Egypt. A Fragile Power, Londres, Routledge, 2022, 244 p.
Farah RAMZY
Dima DE CLERCK & Stéphane MALSAGNE, Le Liban en guerre, 1975-1990, Paris, Belin, 2020, 480 p.
Daniel MEIER
Third issue :
Schools put to the test
Mondes arabes #3, june 2023

A free hand. The emancipation of Maghreb social sciences.
Jocelyne DAKHLIA
Thematic issue: School put to the test
Schools put to the test. When schools and their stakeholders come face to face with politics (1930s-2020s)
Juliette HONVAULT & Christine MUSSARD
A rural school facing power issues in 1930s Yemen. Construction of the Modern Zaydi State and publicization of school actors.
Juliette HONVAULT
“A three-headed institution”. Recomposition of authority relationships in times of war within the school Abdel Kader of Beirut (1985-1990)
Christine MUSSARD
The tools of a Moroccan anthropologist at home and abroad, an interview with Hassan Rachik.
Condutec by Assia BOUTALEB & Charlotte COURREYE
Books, sounds & images
Discover the presentation of the issue “Parliaments in (r)evolution?” at IReMMO by Camille ABESCAT, Déborah PÉREZ and Manon-Nour TANNOUS.

Thematic issue: Parliaments in (r)evolution?
Introduction: Parliaments in (r)evolution? For a sociology of political institutions in the Arab worlds.
Hardy Mède & Déborah Perez
Reviving parliament in war-torn Yemen. Struggles for legitimacy and representation.
Marine Poirier
Outsiders in parliament? When beginner female MPs manage to overrule the assembly in post-Ben Ali Tunisia
Déborah Perez
Representation without parties? Competing conceptions and role-taking in the Jordanian parliament (2016-2022)
Camille Abescat
The ‘duty to try’: The path of a feminist researcher
Interview with Hoda Elsadda, by Yasmine Berriane & Chaymaa Hassabo
Works, sounds & images
Discover the presentation of the journal and its launch issue ‘Faire des sciences sociales du politique’ at IReMMO by Manon-Nour TANNOUS, Youssef EL CHAZLI, Assia BOUTALEB and Choukri HMED (moderated by Dima ALSAJDEYA).

At a conference with our team and guests, we take a look at the collective process to create a journal. With Mourad Besbes, Amélie Canu, Manon-Nour Tannous from Mondes arabes & François Gèze, publisher at La Découverte and Chairman of Cairn.
« Spring this year has brought us a nice surprise: the launch of a new journal, Mondes arabes, from young French researchers. »

Introduction. Area studies: Because we’re worth it!
Amin Allal & Assia Boutaleb & Manon-Nour Tannous
Thematic issue: Developing a social science of politics
The illegal constructions of revolution
Amin Allal & Youssef El Chazli
The social life of norms. On love and rights in Egypt and Morocco.
Yasmine Berriane & Aymon Kreil
Bringing the administration back in. Advocating for an analysis of administrations in the Arab world
Assia Boutaleb & Laurence Dufresne Aubertin
The outcomes of revolutionary situations. Thinking together about regime changes and revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia (2010–2014)
Chaymaa Hassabo & Choukri Hmed
Still researching. Syria as an object of study (1980s to 2010s)
Matthieu Rey & Manon-Nour Tannous
Choice and constancy. Research topics and journeys. Interview with Michel Camau.
Interview with Michel Camau, conducted by Amin Allal and Assia Boutaleb
Works, sounds & images
Youssef El Chazli. Devenir révolutionnaire à Alexandrie. Contribution à une sociologie historique du surgissement révolutionnaire en Égypte. Paris, Dalloz, 2020, 416 p.
Riadh Amine Ben Mami
The emergence and future of area studies on the Gulf. Reflections based on comparative perspectives.
Claire Beaugrand