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Researcher in social anthropology, ethnology, specialized in anthropology of the nature - gardens and oasis - and in urban anthropology - Arab cities (Cairo, Egypt and Khartoum in Sudan in particular), I was for a (too) long time free-lance researcher before being recruited as CNRS researcher 1st class in October 2009, with a position in the National Museum of Natural History (the "Jardin des Plantes", Paris), Lab. "Eco-anthropology and ethnobiology" (UMR 7206), research group "Biodiversity, ecological systems and human activities." Currently, I am also visiting scholar at Columbia University, Department of Anthropology, and formerly (2012-2015) at New York University, Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies.
My research in anthropology is mainly located in North Africa (Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco) and the Middle East (Egypt, Yemen, Sudan). Trained in Biology (Terrestrial Ecology), and in the development, with a PhD in Social Anthropology (from the University of Paris V / Sorbonne) on a socioecology of Saharan oases, I recently held a research position in Cairo (at the CEDEJ research center, from 2002 to 2006). My current work focuses on the field of ecological anthropology in the oasis of Siwa and gardens in Egypt in general, and on the other hand on the field of urban anthropology with the analysis of public spaces in Cairo (with now a strong focus soundscapes, and especially acoustic ambiances/ecology of Cairo).
Last published book: co-editor (with François Ireton) of Egypt of today, Inventory of a Society before Revolution (in French, original title: L'Égypte au présent, Inventaire d'une société avant révolution), 2011, Editions Sindbad, Actes Sud, 1180 p.
- Web site of the lab.: http://www.ecoanthropologie.cnrs.fr
- Home page: http://vbat.org
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