Research Seminar

A research Seminar on "Mashriq Society and Politics" will be jointly organized by The Institute of Islamic Area Studies and Kyoto Sangyo Univerisity on Thursday May 25, 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: NAGASAWA Eiji). 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 Kurd and Arab administration in Raqqa city, based on her PhD thesis published as Raqqa, Territoires et pratiques sociales d’une ville syrienne(2009).

Date & Time : May 25, 2023 (Thurs), 16:45 – 18:15

Place: Building SR, Room 306, Kyoto Sangyo University

Language : English


Program:

16:35 Opening Remarks: KITAZAWA Yoshiyuki (Kyoto Sangyo Univerisity) & IWASAKI Erina(Sophia University)

16:50-17:20 Presentation: Myriam ABABSA (French Institute for the Near-East (IFPO))
“Raqqa City Governance and Challenges of the Kurd and Arab Administration (2017-2023)”

17:20-18:15 Discussions

Profile:
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)

Contact:
Institute of Islamic Area Studies, Sophia University
sias-co[at]sophia.ac.jp please change [at] to @


*This seminar shows the achievement of the research activities of the following two projects;
  1. "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: AKAHORI Masayuki)
  2. Kyoto Sangyo University (Faculty of International Relations)

  • NIHU Area Studies Project for the Modern Middle East Sophia University(2016-2021)
  • Sophia and Waseda Joint Research Project Histories and Current Situations of Interreliglous Relations in Asia and Africa
  • isramic area studies, sophia university(2006-2015)
  • Project SOIAS (2008-2012)
  • Jawi Study Group Archives

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