Karim Kardady
Karim Kardady is a PhD candidate in applied human sciences at the University of Montreal (UdM), under the supervision of Violaine Lemay and the co-supervision of Wael Saleh. His thesis, Islamism, terrorism and digital propaganda: what prospects for preventive intervention against the online recruitment of young people?, addresses online radicalisation and the prevention of jihadist recruitment of young people, with a particular focus on Quebec.
He is an associate researcher with the PLURIEL network and with the Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security and Society (TSAS). He takes part in the PLURIEL-affiliated research group “Epistemological and methodological issues in the study of violence in the name of Islam”, and also contributes to the UNESCO-PREV Chair on the Prevention of Radicalisation and Violent Extremism and to the Society, Law and Religions Research Centre (SoDRUS) at the University of Sherbrooke. Since 2026, he has also joined the PLURIEL research group “Interreligious Dialogue Assisted by Artificial Intelligence”, coordinated by Wael Saleh.
In May 2026, he delivered a paper at the annual Acfas Congress in Trois-Rivières entitled Radicalisation and the Arab world: conflicts of knowledge and academic narratives on violent Islamism. Reflections drawn from Ibn Khaldun’s Al-Muqaddima (1377), in a session devoted to critical rereadings of academic paradigms on Islamism.
A former member of Morocco’s intelligence services (Directorate-General for Territorial Surveillance, counter-terrorism) for more than eight years, he developed expertise there on radicalisation leading to violence, and in particular on radical Islamism. He holds a law degree from Hassan II University in Casablanca and two master’s degrees from the University of Sherbrooke (applied political studies; intercultural mediation), while also serving as a department head at the CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l’Île-de-Montréal.
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Sayyid Qutb. Architect of Radical Islamism
- Mounia Ait Kabboura
The thought of Sayyid Qutb (1906–1966) has profoundly shaped a wide range of religio-political movements, from the Muslim Brotherhood to Salafi-jihadists, radicalizing political Islam and inspiring...
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Salafist Movements in Europe: Between Local and Transnational Mobilizations
- Mohamed-Ali Adraoui
In this chapter, the author sheds light on the main sociological features and academic debates on the issue of Salafism in Europe. Through a comparative analysis of different countries, he shows th...
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Radical evil and the Canadian multiculturalist otherness
- Mounia Ait Kabboura
The "radical evil" that tore Europe apart in the 20th century was totalitarianism (Hannah Arendt). Today, this evil has been reincarnated into a barbaric radicalisation that undermines societies. T...
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Thinking Jihadist Radicalisation: Actors, Theories, Transformations
- Elyamine Settoul
Like many countries, French society is facing the rise of violent radicalisation phenomena with a politico-religious referential. From the factors of jihadist commitment to the processes of disaffi...
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Between Standardization And Otherness: Being A Muslim In The In The French Armed Forces
- Elyamine Settoul
Already present since the colonisation process, the question of Islam within the French army has reappeared strongly with the settling down of the populations resulting from the great waves of indu...
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Religious radicalization. Process of a controversial concept
- Mohamed-Ali Mostfa
Introduction : I would like to seize the opportunity of my first participation to the Mediterranean website to raise the issue of radicalisation as a concept, which has permeated the political a...
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Methodology for analysing radicalisation discourses and counter-discourses
- Bénédicte Du Chaffaut
Lecture given on 14 October 2021 at the Catholic University of Lyon during the conference « Radicalisation leading to violence in the name of Islam, Epistemological, methodological and ethical appr...
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The radical discourse and civilisational stake
- Mohamed-Ali Mostfa
Lecture given on 14 October 2021 at the Catholic University of Lyon during the conference « Radicalisation leading to violence in the name of Islam, Epistemological, methodological and ethical appr...