Laure Guiguis
Associate Researcher
Department of Sociology and Political Science
Centre de recherches politiques Raymond Aron
France
Biography
Laure Guirguis holds a degree in Chinese (INALCO 2000) and a Master 2 in Political Philosophy (Paris X Nanterre, 2003). She has prepared her PhD in minority and structural violence. Emergence of a "Coptic question" and contemporary mutations of the Egyptian political scene under the leadership of Alain Roussillon and Hamit Bozarslan (EHESS, 2011). She was awarded the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship (SSHRC, Canada), followed by a scholarship from the Orient-Institut Beirut, where she embarked on a new research on revolutionary Arab Lefts and Imaginations in the 1960-70 the kind a reflection on political violence.
Research Interest
Egypt, Lebanon, Oman, Middle East TriContinent The Arab Lefts Violence and Power Revolution Political Generations Nationalism and communitarianism
Publications
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"Contemporary discourses around conversion", in Pierre Blanc (dir.), Christians of the Orient. The Cahiers de Confluences , Paris, L'Harmattan, September 2008, pp. 127-141.
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"Contemporary Coptic Contests," in Sarah Ben Nefissa and Blandine Destremau (ed.), Social Protests, Civil Revolutions. Political Transformations in the Arab Mediterranean , Third World Review , Out of Series 2011, Paris, Armand Colin, pp. 139-163.
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Taranim and video clips. Is the Egyptian Church bare by her children? "In Laurent Bonnefoy and Myriam Catusse (ed.), Jeunesses arabes. Leisure, culture and politics, Paris, La Découverte 2013.
