Team

Biographie

PhD in political science from IEP Paris. Author of a thesis on: Diwaniyyas: factors of political reshuffling and social transformation in Kuwait (1996) and research fellow at CERI, Sciences Po Paris, then at CERMOC, Jordan. Expert for the Middle East - Arabian Peninsula at the French Ministry of Defense's Delegation for Strategic Affairs (1995-2014),Gulf-Middle East researcher at IRSEM since 2014.Teaching at IEP Lille since 2012: opening seminar on the changing Arab world. Since 2017: seminar on the history and current affairs of the Arabian Peninsula and transverse Political Economy course: Middle East Asia.

Publications

IRSEM publications:

With Sonia Le Gouriellec: "The Red Sea: New Spaces of Interdependent Security Issues between Countries of the Gulf and the Horn of Africa", Research Paper No. 75, IRSEM, 19 p., January 2021.

"Oman: National challenges and Regional issues in the post-Sultan Era", IRSEM, n°41, 18 July 2017.

Main publications in French:

Books:Monarchies et Sociétés d’Arabie. Le temps des confrontations (Monarchies and Societies of Arabia. The stage of confrontations). Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2006. L’Arabie en 100 questions (100 questions on Saudi Arabia). Paris, Tallandier, 2020. Third edition since 2017.

Also publication of many articles (academic and more general) on GCC States, the sub-regional dynamics and on GCC Political economy and lastly on the new Saudi leadership and its Regional impacts in regional Politics in the Middle East.

Collective book to be publish and edited by the author in French, Saudi Arabia in the World, Paris, CNRS, First semester 2025. 

Last Academic Publications in English:

“The War in Ukraine and Arab Gulf States’ Foreign Policy Shifts” European Review of International Studies, CERI, Brill xx, October 2023, P.1-30.

“Geopolitical shift in the Gulf after the Abraham Accords”, Orient (63) III/2022, German Orient-Foundation, 24-30.

“Saudi Arabian Regional Policy”, Orient (62) III/2021, rapprochement in the GCC, German Orient-Foundation, 47-54.

« The New Saudi Leadership and its impact on Regional Policy », The International Spectator, Italian Journal of International Affairs, November 2021, 56 (4), 49-65.   https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03932729.2021.1987033

Saudi Arabia: Mohamed Bin Salman’s Gamble on Youth, Report No 80, IRSEM, May 2021.

«The Gulf States and Israel after the Abraham Accords », November 2020, 
https://www.arab-reform.net/publication/the-gulf-states-and-israel-after-the-abraham-accords/