Zohra Aziadé Zemirli
Born in 1989, Zohra Aziadé Zemirli is a researcher in Arab countries law and a proofreader/editor of theses and scientific articles in French. She has held a PhD in comparative law since 2018. She defended a thesis on the Legal Status of Religious Minorities in Algeria at the Sorbonne’s Doctoral School of Comparative Law. An excerpt from her thesis, The Legal Status of Non-Muslims in Algeria, was published in November 2020 by l’Harmattan publishing house. She received a special jury mention for the francophone thesis prize on the Middle East and Muslim Worlds from the Scientific Interest Group (GIS) Middle East and Muslim Worlds and the Institute for the Study of Islam and Muslim Societies (IISMM) in 2019.
She then held a postdoctoral position at the Population and Development Center, Research Institute for Development, University of Paris, working on the Equality and Law in Personal Status (ELIPS) program.
She is currently an associate researcher at CAREP (Arab Center for Research and Political Studies). She teaches at the University of Paris Cité, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, the Catholic University of Paris and Lyon.
She is interested in religious freedom and more specifically in the interactions between religion and law.
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Revival and Dynamics of Islamic Studies in Europe
- Michel Younès
- Emmanuel Pisani
- Cédric Baylocq
- Zohra Aziadé Zemirli
- Michele Brignone
- Haoues Seniguer
“In a troubled international context where Islam is sometimes defined as an ideological marker of many conflicts, academic research drawing on history, sociology, and political science has mu...
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Muslim Theologies of Religious Pluralism. Proceedings of the Colloquium Held on November 20 and 21, 2021
- Emmanuel Pisani
- Cédric Baylocq
- Anne-Sophie Vivier-Muresan
- Zohra Aziadé Zemirli
- Charbel Attallah
- Haoues Seniguer
- Youssouf Sangare
The laboratory of the Institute of Science and Theology of Religions of Paris (Theologicum, ICP) presents here the outcome of four years of research on the theme of religious pluralism in Islam. Wh...
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The legal status of non-Muslims in Algeria. The example of evangelicals and Ahmadis.
- Zohra Aziadé Zemirli
This book, which focuses on the situation before 2019, provides keys to explaining the origins of the popular protest movement, the hirak. It shows how the State controls the society, which is pred...
Resources related to
Freedom of Religion
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From regulating religious sound to transforming it into light: public, legal and architectural debates on the adhān
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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Religious minorities and spiritual assistance. Reflections on the project “Atlas of religious or belief minority rights” in the European Union
- Ilaria Valenzi
Abstract Developed within the multilevel system of legal sources, the category of "religious minority" takes on particular significance within the European Union, where a shared system of protectio...
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“Inclusive Citizenship, the Right to a Place of Worship and Everyday Peace”, by Antonio Angelucci
- Antonio Angelucci
In an article published in the Italian journal Coscienza e Libertà (no. 69, 2025), Antonio Angelucci, associate professor of law and religion at the University of Insubria, examines the connection ...
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Public order and religious family rights. Sustainability and limits of an evolving legal relationship
- Ilaria Valenzi
Abstract The public-order clause, which safeguards the fundamental principles of the legal order, is today tested by the circulation of family models rooted in religious legal systems. Ilaria Valen...
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Freedom of conscience, a contested yet resilient right
- Dominique Avon
Rome. In a conference given on November 28, 2024, at the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies, Professor Dominique Avon from the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris traced the ...
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Speaking freely in Islam
- Hamadi Redissi
What is the Islamic doctrine of blasphemy, insult to God, religion and the Prophet? What about the prohibition of figurative representation of Muhammad? Can one openly believe or abjure in Islam? T...
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Religious minorities between the Mediterranean shores: a study of the status of religious minorities in the Mediterranean context (REMiMEsO) – Final Report
- Alessandro Ferrari
The REMiMESo project, led by Ilaria Valenzi and supported by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, explores the situation of religious minorities in five Mediterranean countries: Israel, Morocco...
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Religious Freedom in Italy. An Impossible Paradigm
- Alessandro Ferrari
Italy, seat of the Pope and Vatican City, has a long and difficult relationship with religious freedom. Often identified as a quintessentially Catholic nation, Italy owes its unification to a polit...