List of doctoral students (CERMOM)

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Since 2006, the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche Moyen-Orient, Méditerranée, CERMOM (EA 4091), has brought together some fifty tenured research professors (Inalco, Sorbonne Université and Paris 8) specializing in the Middle East and Mediterranean cultural area (Arab world, Mediterranean and Muslim societies, Jewish societies (Israel and diaspora), Turco-Persian, Greek and Kurdish worlds).

Belgacem ABOUDI

Thesis topic: The figure of the Prophet through al-Busiri's Burda
Since 2019
Thesis supervisor: Jean-Jacques THIBON

Shahed ALTAL

Thesis topic: Transgeneric writing in post-war literature - the trilogies of Alain Robbe-Grillet and Edouard Al-ḪARRĀṬ as a model (comparative study)
Since 2019
Thesis supervisor: Rima SLEIMAN

Tiziano ANZUINI

Thesis topic: Christian Kabbalah and philology chea Gilles of Viterbo: Menahem Recanti's Latin tradition of Perush'al ha-Torah (Paris, BNF,lat 598), introduction, critical edition and commentary
Since 2017
Director of Thesis: Alessandro GUETTA

Emine ARIKAN

Subject of Thesis:Microtoponyms as a source of documentation for an endangered language: the case of Çamlıhemşin
From 2021
Thesis director:Alexandre TOUMARKINE
Thesis co-director: Anaid DONABEDIAN

Kursad ARIKAN

Thesis topic: Turkish antimodernists: a literature between modernism and conservatism
Since 2016
Thesis director: Alexandre TOUMARKINE
Thesis co-director: Timour MUHIDINE

Ramla AYARI épouse CHERIF

Thesis subject: Egyptian TV soap operas adapted from Arabic literary texts after 2011
Since 2019
Director of Thesis: Luc DEHEUVELS
Co-director of Thesis: Delphine PAGES-EL KAROUI

Yelda BAHTIYAR

Subject of Thesis: Between memory and the present: Turkish-speaking Sephardic women writers in the 20th and 21st centuries
Since 2017
Thesis director: Marie-Christine BORNES VAROL
Thesis co-director: Timour MUHIDINE

Faezeh BEKHNAVEH

Thesis topic: De la science des allusions ('ilm al-ishara) : une herméneutique de la poésie soufie d'expression persane
Since 2015
Directrice de Thèse: Leili ANVAR
Co-directeur de Thèse: Jean-Jacques THIBON

Fiche Personnelle : Faezeh BEKHNAVEH (267.03 KB, .pdf)

Aïcha BELABID

Thesis topic: The epitome of Averroes' Organon: critical edition, translation from the two Hebrew versions and the Judeo-Arabic version, and philosophical analyses
Since 2021 (doctoral contract)
Thesis supervisor : Alessandro GUETTA

Hichem BEN YEDDER

Thesis topic: Literature of change: analyses of novelistic writing in post-revolution Tunisia through the novels of Khaoula Hamdi
Since 2020
Thesis director: Rima SLEIMAN

David BILLEAU

Thesis topic:From reception to integration and citizenship of Syrian refugees in Turkey: dimensions, issues and limits of a migration policy
Since 2019
Thesis director: Alexandre TOUMARKINE
Thesis co-director: Bayram BALCI

Penina BITTON

Thesis topic: Tradition in the age of modernity: Malbim in the context of the revival of Jewish biblical exegesis in the 19th century
Since 2019
Thesis director: Alessandro GUETTA

Fiche Personnelle : Penina BITTON (431.9 KB, .pdf)

Manel BOUABIDI épouse JOBIC

Thesis subject : Codic alternation in the contemporary Arabic novel
Since 2015
Thesis supervisor: Georgine AYOUB

Nadir BOUDJELLAL

Thesis topic: The isolated letters of the Qur'an and their exegeses
Since 2020
Thesis director: Jean-Jacques THIBON
Thesis co-director: Francesco CHIABOTTI

Matteo D'AVANZO

Thesis topic: Ethiopian Jewish Community Under Italian Fascist Rule
Since 2022
Thesis supervisor: Alessandro GUETTA
Thesis co-supervisor: Ilaria PAVAN

Isa DEARI

Thesis topic: The becoming of the Ottoman heritage in the Republic of Macedonia from 1991 to 2017
Since 2019
Thesis supervisor: Alexandre TOUMARKINE
Thesis co-supervisor: Frosa BOUCHEREAU-PEJOSKA

Gözde Nur DONAT

Thesis topic: A prosopographical approach to "Ottoman" socialists (1876 - 1923)
Since 2022
Thesis supervisor: Alexandre TOUMARKINE

Armen DONIKYAN épouse TANIKYAN

Thesis subject: Writers of Armenian origin and Turkish expression in post-1980 Turkey
Since 2017
Thesis director: Méropi ANASTASSIADOU
Thesis co-director: Timour MUHIDINE

Fiche Personnelle : Armen DONIKYAN épouse TANIKYAN (536.8 KB, .pdf)

Rémi FAGARD

Thesis topic: Biology according to Avicenna
Since 2019
Thesis supervisor: Georgine AYOUB
Thesis co-supervisor: Ridha ATLAGH

Soufiane FELLAG ARIOUET

Thesis topic: Bipartite division of Haqiqa/magaz discourse in Muslim jurisprudence theory. Pour une approche pragmatique dans les usuls al-fiqh
Since 2015
Directrice de Thèse: Georgine AYOUB

Timothée GAEREMYNCK

Subject of Thesis: The Bāb al-Ḥamāsa in Abū Tammām's anthology al-Ḥamāsa: naming and defining a poetic theme
Since 2022
Thesis supervisor: Luc DEHEUVELS
Thesis co-director: Mathias HOORELBEKE

Rabiaa HARMOUCH

Thesis topic: Grammatical norms and semantic formalization in contemporary Arabic poetry (an essay on the poetry of Adonis)
Since2014
Thesis director: Sobhi BOUSTANI
Thesis co-director: Maha KHEIR BEK

Steevens IPAS

Thesis topic: Abduh Ḫāl (1962- ): a noir novelist and critic of Saudi society
Since 2019
Thesis supervisor: Luc DEHEUVELS

Yasmina JARBOUA

Thesis topic: The politico-military dispute between Algeria and Morocco since 1956, against the backdrop of the struggle for regional leadership
Since 2022
Thesis supervisor: Chantal VERDEIL
Thesis co-director: Anne-Claire BONNEVILLE

Olcay KARABAG

Thesis topic: Turkish-language proletarian literature: testimony or utopia?
Since 2020
Thesis supervisor: Alexandre TOUMARKINE
Thesis co-supervisor: Timour MUHIDINE

Fiche Personnelle : Olcay KARABAG (133.06 KB, .pdf)

Althéa KARADAG

Thesis subject: Art and women in struggle: the contemporary art scene in Turkey from the 1960s to the present
From 2021
Thesis supervisor: Alexandre TOUMARKINE
Thesis co-director: Timour MUHIDINE

Moshe KRAVETZ

Thesis topic: Elie de Nola, a philosopher and exegete, disciple of Ovadia Sforno
Since 2018
Thesis director: Alessandro GUETTA
Thesis co-director: Giuseppe VELTRI

Javier LEIBIUSKY

Thesis topic: Critical and annotated edition of Isaac Magriso's Me'amLo'ez on Pirke Avot (Istanbul, 1747), study of language and commentary
Since 2017
Thesis supervisor: Marie-Christine BORNES VAROL

Gilda LYGHOUNIS

Thesis topic: Marriage as a rite of passage: Ancient legacy in island Greece in contemporary times
Since 2020
Thesis director:Méropi ANASTASSIADOU
Thesis co-director: Vincent AZOULAY

Panteleimon MAVROGIANNIS

Thesis topic: Constituting a reference corpus for an endangered language: the Judeo-Spanish Oral Archive
Since 2017
Thesis supervisor: Marie-Christine BORNES VAROL
Thesis co-director: Florence DESCAMPS

Yassir MECHELLOUKH

Thesis subject: The first metaphysics of Averroes - Complete translation and commentary of the Compendium of Metaphysics (Kitāb mā ba'd al-ṭabī'a)
Since 2020
Thesis director:Georgine AYOUB
Thesis co-director: Jean-Baptiste BRENET

Fiche Personnelle : Yassir MECHELLOUKH (183.49 KB, .pdf)

Iman MESSAOUDI

Thesis subject: Recompense and punishment according to a literary text by Ibn al-Daya (4th-10th c)
Since 2022
Thesis supervisor: Luc DEHEUVELS
Thesis co-director: Mathias HOORELBEKE

Silvia NEGRI

Thesis subject: Commented critical edition, translation and commentary of Moshe de Rieti's Sefer Miqdash Me'at
Since 2020 (doctoral contract)
Thesis supervisor: Alessandro GUETTA
Thesis co-supervisor: Judith KOGEL

Fiche Personnelle : Silvia NEGRI (158.46 KB, .pdf)

Branka NIKOLIC épouse ARRIVE

Thesis topic:The invention of language or Hayim ben Moshe Bejarano's rehispanized Judeo-Spanish in his glossed proverbial 1913
Since 2019
Thesis director: Marie-Christine BORNES VAROL

Fiche Personnelle : Branka NIKOLIC épouse ARRIVE (668.67 KB, .pdf)

Bernardino PITOCCHELLI

Thesis topic: For a biblical translation in Judeo-Italian. Edition and linguistic study of the book of Hosea and a Hebrew-Italian glossary
Since 2020
Director of Thesis: Alessandro GUETTA
Co-director of Thesis: Laura MINERVINI

Habil SAGLAM

Subject of Thesis: Aesthetic existence in Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar
Since 2015
Thesis supervisor: Alexandre TOUMARKINE
Thesis co-supervisor: Timour MUHIDINE

Fiche Personnelle : Habil SAGLAM (17.5 KB, .docx)

Greta SALA

Thesis topic: The affirmation of the individual within the post-2000 Syrian novel: between quest, crisis and (re)construction of identity
Since 2021 (doctoral contract)
Thesis supervisor: Rima SLEIMAN
Thesis co-supervisor:

Maxime TABET

Thesis topic:The šiḥḥī speech - Grammatical description of a variety of Arabic in contact in the Musandam peninsula (Oman)
Since 2022
Thesis supervisor: Bruno HERIN
Thesis co-director: Stefano MANFREDI

Muhammet TOPAL

Thesis topic: "Mizancı" Murad, a paradigmatic Ottoman intellectual, between meritocracies
Since 2020
Director of Thesis: Alexandre TOUMARKINE

Nina VAN KAMPEN

Subject of Thesis: Phenomena of linguistic accommodation in a situation of dialectal contact: the case of Palestinian refugees in Beirut
Since 2017
Thesis Director: Georgine AYOUB
Thesis co-director: Bruno HERIN

Anamarija VARGOVIC

Thesis topic: David Franco Mendes and the transcription of biblical episodes: Study of a reappropriation
Since 2017
Director of Thesis: Alessandro GUETTA

Boguslaw ZAGORSKI

Thesis topic: Corpus topographicum maghrebinum. A dictionary of historical geography of medieval North-West Africa based on the work of Ibn Khaldūn (1332-1406)
Since 2019
Thesis supervisor: Luc DEHEUVELS
Thesis co-supervisor: Vanessa VAN RENTERGHEM

Fiche Personnelle : Boguslaw ZAGORSKI (745.12 KB, .pdf)

Asja ZAINO

Thesis topic: Resisting confinement as a Palestinian woman: The impact of the Israeli prison system on Palestinian women's trajectories
Since 2021 (doctoral contract)
Thesis director: Chantal VERDEIL
Thesis co-director: Meriam CHEIKH