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The mission of the Langues et Cultures du Nord de l'Afrique et Diasporas host team (EA 4092) is to study the local languages and cultures of North Africa (Berber, Maghrebian Arabic and Judeo-Maghrebian domains), in their original localizations as well as in diasporas, notably in the western Mediterranean and Europe. Its members work in the fields of linguistics, sociolinguistics, literature and culture (cultural anthropology, history, cultural sociology, arts).

Doctors

Being Amazigh after Gaddafi: Libyan Berber activism online
Sami LABAÏED (doctoral contract)
from 2022
Thesis supervisor: Daniela MEROLLA
Co-supervisor: Anna Maria Di Tolla (Naples)

An Art of Fiber and Abstraction. Pour une nouvelle Historie de l'art du tissage berbère de 1845 à nos jours
Meriem DERRIDJ
from 2022
Dissertation supervisor: Daniela MEROLLA
Co-supervisor: Malika Assam (Aix-Marseille)

Online journalism between literary space and activism:
An analysis of the discourse of cultural and political spheres in multilingual Amazigh online media
Hamza AMAROUCHE
from 2022
Thesis supervisor: Daniela MEROLLA

Memory and trauma. The Algerian black decade in cinema (1994-2019)
Menel ZEGGAR
since 2021
Thesis supervisor: Daniela MEROLLA
Orality and rewritings. Algerian traditional tales and new information and communication technologies. Comparative approaches.
Amal DAHMANI
since 2019
Joint direction: Prof. Daniela MEROLLA and Prof. Mourad YELLES

The patrimonialization and musealization of the Berber carpet in Morocco
Elhoussaine LAZHAR
since 2018
Thesis supervisor: Daniela MEROLLA

Algerian cinema and its issues: Receptions, practices and representations
Faisal SAHBI
since 2018
Thesis supervisor: Daniela MEROLLA
Co-director: Alexandrine Barontini

Etude linguistique des parlers berbères du Djbel Nefousa (Lybie)
Nora MAHI
since 2013
Thesis supervisor: Kamal NAÏT-ZERRAD

Functional grammar of Chaoui
Salim LOUNISSI
since 2018
Dir. Kamal NAÏT-ZERRAD

Post-Gaddafi Libya and the evolution of the Berber/Amazigh question
Masin FERKAL
since 2019
Dir. Kamal NAÏT-ZERRAD

Semantic-syntactic analysis of the use orientation particles of Chaoui (Aït bouslimane speech)
Amina KHALFAOUI
since 2019
Dir. Kamal NAÏT-ZERRAD

Morpho-phonological aspects of verbal inflection and derivation in Berber. Cas d'un parler des Ait Atta-Approche non-concaténative
Jamal OUASSOU
depuis 2019
Dir. Kamal NAÏT-ZERRAD

Lexical fixation in Berber: thematic and semantic-syntactic study of idiomatic expressions, the case of the Ait Hmad Uisa speech, central Morocco
Driss RABIH
Since 2019
Dir.Kamal NAÏT-ZERRAD

The Arabic of the women of Misrata (Libya): phonology and morphology
Hawa RAS ALI
Since 2015
Dissertation supervisor: Christophe PEREIRA

The image of Jews in Berber culture
El Mahjoub AIT MALEK
since 2014
Thesis supervisor: Joseph TEDGHI

Traditions in popular theater in Algeria
Rabah CHERIET
since 2012
Thesis supervisor: Mourad YELLES

Poetics of exile and identity representations in Algerian literature. A comparative approach
Hanane LAGUER
since 2014
Thesis supervisor: Mourad YELLES

International co-directions

French translations of Berber tales.
Nabila CHAIB.
Direction: Prof. Hélène Bouzelin, Department of Linguistics, Université de Montréal ; co-direction Prof. D. MEROLLA, INALCO. (2017-2020)

Nonhuman Matter(s) in the Figuration of Ecocultural Knowledges: A Comparative Reading of Selected "Lamalic" Poems of Samburu and Maasai Women of Doldol.
James Maina WACHIRA
Director: Prof. Susan ARNDT- Professor of English Studies and Anglophone Literatures (University of Bayreuth) & BIGSAS Senior Fellow - English and Anglophone Literatures. Mentor : Prof. Daniela MEROLLA, INALCO. (2017-2020)

Sidas and theater in Swahili.
Ria Huÿgen-Koolen
Joint supervision: Prof. D. MEROLLA, INALCO, Prof. M. MOUS, University of Leiden (2016-2020)

International co-directions with PhD scholarship holders

The reception of the Kabyle novel by academic criticism, the case of novels from the 1980s.
Yasmina FOURALI
since 2018 (two-year fellowship)
Thesis supervisor: Mohamed DJELLAOUI, PU, Univ A.M.Oulhadj Bouira
Co-thesis supervisor: Daniela MEROLLA

Contribution to the textual study of Kabyle enigma-devinettes.
Takfarinas BELLACHE
since 2018 (two-year fellowship)
Thesis supervisor: Kamal BOUAMARA, Université Abderrahmane Mira de Bejaia
Co-thesis supervisor: Daniela MEROLLA

Essay for the elaboration of a monolingual Kabyle-Kabyle dictionary through the Ait Mlikeche speech (Haute Sommame Béjaia).
Mohand or Ramtane IGHIT
since 2018 (two-year fellowship)
Thesis supervisor: Kamal BOUAMARA, Université Abderrahmane Mira de Bejaia
Co-thesis supervisor: K. Naït Zerad

Introduction to legal translation in Tamazight. Lexical challenge and documentary research, essay on the Algerian penal code
Habib HAMMI
since 2018 (two-year scholarship)
Thesis supervisor: Moussa IMARAZENE, Université de Tizi-Ouzou
Co-thesis supervisor: K. Naït Zerad

What pedagogy for teaching/learning the Berber language (Kabyle) in Algeria?
Zohra GACI
since 2018 (two-year scholarship)
Thesis supervisor: Amer NABTI, Université de Tizi-Ouzou
Co-thesis supervisor: K. Naït Zerad

Doctorates defended

2019
2018
2017
2016