The Institute of Islamic Area Studies hold a hybrid research Seminar on "Raqqa, urban society in northern Syria" on Friday May 19, 2023
Institute of Islamic Area Studies at Sophia University invites Myriam Ababsa (associate researcher at the French Institute for the Near-East (IFPO)), and hold a research seminar on Raqqa, urban society in northern Syria with Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “Research Project on Islam and Gender: Towards a Comprehensive Discussion” (Principal Investigator: Eiji Nagasawa). Myriam Ababsa is social geographer based in Jordan since 2000. Her work focuses on the impact of public policies on regional and urban development in Jordan and Syria. In this seminar, she will talk about the governance and reconstruction of Raqqa city from 1864 – 2023, based on her PhD thesis published as Raqqa, Territoires et pratiques sociales d’une ville syrienne (2009). The presentation will be followed by Yutaka Takaoka who will give a short presentation on tribal society and militia in Raqqa, and Masayuki Akahori’s comments.
Date & Time : May 19, 2023 (Fri), 17:30 – 19:00
Place: Building 2, Room 615a (6th floor), Sophia University Yotsuya Campus
Language : English
“Raqqa City Governance, Self Administration and Reconstruction (1864-2023).”
"Tribes in al-Raqqa governorate and Syrian conflict"
Registration: Link (Registration deadline May 15, 2023 )
*Seminar URL will be sent to you later.
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Dr. Myriam ABABSA has directed the Atlas of Jordan. History, Territories and Society (IFPO 2013), and co-edited with Baudouin Dupret and Eric Denis Popular Housing and Urban Land Tenure in the Middle East (University of Cairo Press, 2012) and with Rami Daher, Cities, Urban Practices and Nation Building in Jordan (IFPO 2011). She holds a PhD in Geography from the University François Rabelais of Tours (2004) on Raqqa (Syrian Studies Association, Best Doctoral Dissertation Prize, Special Mention, 2006). She is a former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Fontenay-Saint Cloud)
Dr. Yutaka TAKAOKA is Independent researcher of Syria.
He received Ph.D. in Area Studies from Sophia University (Tokyo, Japan) in 2011, and B.A. from Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan) in 1998.
Previously, he served as Chief Research Fellow, the Middle East Research Institute of Japan in 2018-2020, and as Political attaché, Embassy of Japan in Syria in 2000-2003. His research has focused on Syrian Tribes and its role in contemporary politics. Among his recent individual publication is The Role of Tribes in Contemporary Syrian Politics and Society: An Analysis of Tribes in the Euphrates River Region and al-Jazeera Region (Tokyo: Sangen-sha 2012, in Japanese).
Contact: Institute of Islamic Area Studies, Sophia University
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- "Research on the Dynamics of the Reconstruction of Publicness in Contemporary Islam" funded by by the Promotion and Mutual Aid Corporation for Private Schools of Japan (Principal Investigator: Masayuki Akahori)
- “Research Project on Islam and Gender: Towards a Comprehensive Discussion” (Principal Investigator: Eiji Nagasawa, Project number:20H00085) funded by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
