Tigrane Yégavian
Institut chrétiens d'Orient
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Tigrane Yégavian

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Tigrane Yégavian is a researcher at the Institut chrétiens d’Orient (ICO, Paris), where he belongs to its Chair of Geopolitics, and a doctoral candidate in geography at Université Lumière Lyon 2. A graduate of Sciences Po Paris (research master’s in comparative politics, with a focus on the Muslim world), he wrote his master’s thesis on the Turkmen question in Iraq. He studied Arabic at INALCO, the University of Damascus and Saint Joseph University of Beirut, where he also took courses in Islamic philosophy (2008-2009).

His research focuses on the geopolitics of the Middle East, religious minorities and diasporas. He is the author of Minorités d’Orient. Les oubliés de l’Histoire (Le Rocher, 2019; special mention, L’Œuvre d’Orient literary prize, 2020) and Géopolitique de l’Arménie (Bibliomonde, 2019; new edition 2022), and contributed to La Géopolitique au défi de l’islamisme (ed. Éric Denécé and Alexandre Del Valle, Ellipses, 2022). His book Géopolitique des diasporas is forthcoming from La Découverte.

A member of the editorial board of the journal Conflits, he contributes to journals including Études, Moyen-Orient, Confluences Méditerranée and Les Cahiers de l’Orient. He teaches at Schiller International University (Paris campus) and the École supérieure de journalisme de Paris, and taught at the Facultés Loyola Paris (2021-2022).

He is a member of the Pluriel research group “The Making of Martyrdom (Beirut)”.

Disciplines

Political Sciences

Topics

Eastern Christianism Geopolitics of religions Islam in the Middle East Minorities

Research Group

Pluriel

The Making of Martyrdom (Beirut)

This research project aims to deepen the concept of martyrdom as mobilised in the discourses of the various politico-religious actors on the Lebanese scene. It analyses how this concept is invested, appropriated and reinterpreted by the different communities in order to sacralise their cause, legitimise their action, strengthen their internal cohesion and assert a distinct identity. Carried by an interdisciplinary team of researchers in theology, Islamic studies, anthropology, philosophy, history and sociology, fr…

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