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Dominique Avon: “Hezbollah, the History of an Armed Organisation”

On 25 March 2026, historian Dominique Avon was a guest on Le Cours de l’histoire on France Culture for an episode in the series Guerre au Moyen-Orient, l’histoire pour comprendre, hosted by Xavi...

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Photo report: exploring the Lebanese religious diversity

Muslim diversity, Christian diversity: the program of the PLURIEL congress in Beirut from May 23 to 28 included many meetings to discover the religious plurality of Lebanon. Raphaël Georgy/Pluriel

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Webinars on the prevention of religious radicalisation

The Research Centre “Religions, Rights and Economy in the Mediterranean Area” (REDESM), based at the Università degli Studi dell’Insubria in cooperation with the PriMED project to prevent ...

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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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The Foundations of Arabic Grammatical Theory

Cairo. In a lecture delivered in Arabic on Saturday, January 25, 2025, at the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies (IDEO) in Cairo, Professor Ramzi Baalbaki, holder of the Chair of Arabic Studies ...

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Cosmopolitanism and minority rights: going beyond the protection of ethnoreligious minorities in the Middle East

• Hélène Rey

This communication challenges traditional approaches to ethnoreligious diversity in the Middle East, arguing that the focus on “protecting minority rights” is inadequate. It demonstrates how the...

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Azharis, Representations of Christianity, and the Vagaries of Islamic-Christian Dialogue (1930s-2020s)

• Dominique Avon

Dominique Avon, Director of Studies at the École pratique des hautes études, traces the evolution of the discourse of the ulama of al-Azhar on Christianity since the 1930s. Confronted with the colonial Euro...

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Exclusively for Adherents of ‘Divinely Revealed’ Religions?

• Mohamed Gamal Ali

How did the preparatory work for the Egyptian constitutions discuss issues of freedom of religion and belief? « The term “divinely revealed religions” is used in the constitution, laws, and some judicial ru...

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The representation of non-Islamist Muslims in Sunni Islamist discourse

• Wael Saleh

Full lecture title : ‘The representation of non-Islamist Muslims in Sunni Islamist discourse: an intra-religious otherness?’ In what ways do non-Brother Muslims (especially secular, liberal and ...

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Personal Status Laws of Women in Egypt and Palestine

• Asli Karaca

Title of the lecture : ‘Institutionalized Islam in Personal Status Laws and Challenged Position of Women as ‘the Other’’ In most of the Muslim-majority countries, personal status laws are the ma...

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The concept of “citizenship” in the Azhari discourse. Problems and contradictions

• Mohamed Gamal Ali

The concept of “citizenship” in the Al-Azhar discourse, problems and contradictions Al-Azhar Foundation announces on various occasions its full adoption of the concept of “citizenship,” and the ...

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The secular movement in Lebanon 2006-2019

• Amin Elias

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Rethinking the Muslim-Christian living together in Lebanon / Amin Elias

• Amin Elias

On the eve of the first centenary of the proclamation of the State of Greater Lebanon (September 1, 1920), this intervention proposes to expose and analyse the position of Muslims in Lebanon towards this pr...

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The view of Lebanese Islam on the other: what specificity?

• Salim Daccache

Salim Daccache, Rector of Saint Joseph University since 2012. Doctor of Letters and Philosophy and in Educational Sciences. Argument: How does Lebanese Islam look at the other, the Christian, its counterpar...

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MIDEO 35 – Interactions between Twelver Shiites and Christians

• Emmanuel Pisani

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Master in Middle-Eastern Studies

The Master in Middle Eastern Studies – MIMES is tailored for graduates of various disciplines and backgrounds, who are interested in obtaining a better knowledge of the Middle East region, taking into...