Amel Boubekeur is a political sociologist with a PhD from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). Her research, grounded in a comparative academic approach, focuses on political economy, governance, and religious transformations in the Maghreb and European Muslim communities.
She is a research fellow at the Middle East Institute and the Arab Reform Institute. She is also the co-director of the Research Group in Algerian Studies (IRMC/CEPED). She has been a CNRS / Iremam research fellow, a visiting fellow in the Middle East and North Africa programme at the European Council of Foreign Relations, a research associate at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies and the Centre Jacques Berque, a non-resident fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP-Berlin), a visiting fellow at the Brookings Doha Center, a resident scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut and the head of the Islam and Europe Programme at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels.
She has taught at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS), Stanford University, University of Caen, IREMAM, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Cairo University and the Euro-Mediterranean University of Fez.
She is the author of "Whatever Happened to the Islamists?," "European Islam: The Challenges for Society and Public Policy," and "Le voile de la mariée". Amel Boubekeur is the author of three books and around 40 articles (including in peer-reviewed journals Contemporary Islam, Mediterranean Politics, The Journal of North African Studies, The Year of the Maghreb, Archives en Sciences Sociales des Religions, History of Religions, etc). She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Journal of Law, Society and Power (in Arabic) and she was previously a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Politics, Religion & Ideology.
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