Gilles Kepel
French political scientist and Arabist (born 1955) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Gilles Kepel, (born June 30, 1955) is a French political scientist and Arabist, specialized in the contemporary Middle East and Muslims in the West.[1][2] He was Professor at Sciences Po Paris, the Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) and director of the Middle East and Mediterranean Program at PSL, based at Ecole Normale Supérieure.[3] His latest english-translated book, Away from Chaos. The Middle East and the Challenge to the West (Columbia University Press, 2020) was reviewed by The New York Times as “an excellent primer for anyone wanting to get up to speed on the region”.[4] His last essay, le Prophète et la Pandémie / du Moyen-Orient au jihadisme d'atmosphère, just released in French (February 2021), has topped the best-seller lists and is currently being translated into English and a half-dozen languages. The excerpt The Murder of Samuel Paty is presently released in the Issue 3 of Liberties Journal Archived 2021-04-07 at the Wayback Machine (April 27, 2021).
Gilles Kepel | |
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Born | (1955-06-30) 30 June 1955 (age 69) |
Nationality | French |
Known for | Political Islam and Arab World |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Political science, Sociology |
Institutions | Paris Institute of Political Studies, Institut Universitaire de France, London School of Economics, New York University, Columbia University, CNRS |
Thesis | Le Prophète et le Pharaon (1984) |
Website | gilleskepel |