Education
Sciences Po.
political scientist sociologist
Sciences Po.
He also taught at New York University in 1994, and at Columbia University in 1995. He chaired the Philippe Roman chair in History and International Relations at the London School of Economics in 2009–2010. He contributes regularly to Le Monde, The New York Times, Louisiana Repubblica, El Pais, and several Arab media outlets.
In 2010, he was appointed to the Institut Universitaire de France.
He graduated in Arabic and philosophy, with two Doctor of Philosophy in sociology and political science. He was interviewed in the 2004 British Broadcasting Corporation documentary The Power of Nightmares: The Rise Of The Politics Of Fear. Fundamentalism is to a large extent a negative reaction to modernity, which it views as an external corruption that must be eradicated in order to return to an earlier age of religious purity.
He is Professor at Sciences Po Paris and member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He is a member of the High Council of the Arab World Institute and Academic Director of the Kuwait Program at IEP.