Jamel Khermimoun
Jamel Khermimoun is a geographer with a PhD from Paris-Sorbonne University (2006) and works as a lecturer-researcher and consultant in the social sciences and humanities. He has been a researcher at Pluriel since September 2021, and a member of the Expert Advisory Group of the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology (FORE), at the Yale School of the Environment, Yale University, since April 2022.
His pluridisciplinary research focuses on the relationships between identity, culture and spirituality in Europe and in modern societies, as well as on environmental and sustainable development issues and their spatial, societal and ethical dimensions.
He is the author of Politiques urbaines et image du territoire (L’Harmattan, 2008), L’identité heureuse (Coëtquen éditions, 2014), Ethique et environnement (L’Harmattan, 2016), Islam in Modern Societies (Westbow Press, 2018) and L’essentiel sur l’islam (Albouraq, 2022). He is also a member of the editorial board of The International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Society (Common Ground Research Networks, University of Illinois) and a reviewer for The New Directions in the Humanities Journal Collection.
Latest article, published in The International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Society: Environmental Crisis, Concept of Sustainable Development, Islamic Values, and a Global Alternative.
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Wael Saleh: “Recognising Without Confining, to Better ‘De-other’ the Public Debate”
- Wael Saleh
In an op-ed published on 20 July 2026 by Le Devoir, Wael Saleh, a member of the scientific committee of Pluriel, puts forward a new concept for contemporary democratic debate: "de-othering" (in Fre...
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Interreligious Dialogue and Ethnic Nationalisms in the Balkans
At the invitation of PISAI (Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies, Rome) and Georgetown University, Ahmet Alibašić, professor of Islamic civilization at the Faculty of Islamic Studies...
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Highlighting an Islamic heritage in constant evolution: literary ethics and aesthetics in Najib Redouane’s “Under the Sky of Oran”
Paper presented at the fifth international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February 2026 on the theme "Ethics and Aesthetics in Is...
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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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Dialogue for a More Livable World: Toward an Ethics of Encounter
- Mohamed-Ali Mostfa
How can we live in a climate of mistrust, trapped in identity-based withdrawal, and paralyzed by an uncertain future? On what basis can we open new paths to ease suffering—perhaps even reenchant ou...
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Inaugural Lecture for the Chair in Mediterranean Studies, Religions and Societies
- Dominique Avon
Lecture given by Professor Dominique Avon on October 13, 2025, at the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI).
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Anti-Muslim Racism in Switzerland: A Baseline Study
- Noemi Trucco
- Amir Dziri
- Hansjörg Schmid
Commissioned by the Swiss Confederation’s Service for Combating Racism (SLR), this study (SZIG/CSIS-Studies 12, 2025) is the first comprehensive baseline survey of anti-Muslim racism in Switz...
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Islam in Europe or European Islam?
In this conference given on January 30, 2025, at PISAI (Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies) in Rome, political scientist Olivier Roy offers an in-depth analysis of the Muslim prese...