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Souhail Chichah et François Burgat

Souhail Chichah is a Visiting Lecturer in American Studies at William College in the U.S.  He is a global scholar and a public intellectual. He taught economics in China, Singapore, Japan, Belgium, and France. His teaching in France was on economics of racism at Université de Lyon 2 in the first French master program in Discrimination and Inequality. In addition to his postgraduate degree in Economics from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), he received an M.A. in Business Engineering from The Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (ULB). During his studies he founded the Circle of Arab-European Students, an initiative that earned him the First Prize in Humanism at the ULB. Throughout his career in management, he held several leading positions, including a parliamentary attaché at the Belgian House of Representatives, financial director of the National Center for Development Cooperation, and commercial director of the Belgian National Lottery. As a researcher at the Applied Economics Department of the ULB, he was part of an inter-university team responsible for supporting the Belgium Health Care System in the modeling of financing of health care in Belgium and he published several reports on discrimination in the Belgian labor market. In 2020, his poem, “Prendre langue,” was shortlisted for the European writing competition To Speak Europe in Different Languages. His current research examines theory of capital as well as the anthropology of whiteness and the genealogy of racism. His most recent publication “The “Islamization of France:” Actors and Composers of a Dangerous Tune,” co-authored with François Burgat, was published in Jadaliyya in March 2023.

François Burgat, born April 2 1948 in Chambéry France, is a political scientist and arabist, Former Senior Research Fellow (Directeur de recherches) at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) posted at IREMAM (Institut de recherches et d'études sur le monde arabe et musulman) in Aix-en-Provence. Former head of the French Center for Archaeology and Social Sciences in Sanaa (CEFAS 1997  2003) and of the  French Institute in the Near East, in Damascus (Ifpo 2008-2013)  he has also been the Principal Investigator of the European Research Council (ERC)  Research Program "When Authoritarianism Fails in the Arab World” (WAFAW 2013-2017).

Latest books “Understanding Political Islam” MUP 2020 and “Histoire des mobilisations islamistes 19ème 21ème siècle d’Afghani à Baghdadi”(With Matthieu Rey ed)  CNRS Editions 2022

Having lectured across the world for a wide range of Academic institutions or think tanks such as the World Economic Forum, NATO, the European Union, etc., he has been a permanent resident in the Middle East for over 24 years. He has taught and researched at the University of Constantine, Algeria (1973-1980), at the French CEDEJ in Cairo (1989-1993), as the director of the French Centre for Archaeology and Social Sciences in Sana'a, Yemen (1997-2003), then as the director of the Institut Français du Proche Orient (Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Irak) based in Damascus (2008-2012) and then Beyrouth (2012-2013). FB is also a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). @fburgat 

Main Publications in English

The Islamic Movement in North Africa (U of Texas Press, 1997),

Face to Face with Political Islam (IB Tauris, 2002),

Islamism in the shadow of al-Qaeda, U. of Texas Press 2008),[1][2]

Understanding Political Islam (Manchester University Press, 2019). 

ARTICLES BY Souhail Chichah et François Burgat