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
“Raqqa City Governance and Challenges of the Kurd and Arab Administration (2017-2023)”
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 @
- "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)
- Kyoto Sangyo University (Faculty of International Relations)
