Scientific event

He is a retired Professor of Higher Education and an Associate Research Director at CRASC (Oran). He has authored and coordinated numerous publications and notably served as the French Editor of the Africa Review of Books and as a member of the Executive Committee of CODESRIA (Dakar). He is currently dedicated to directing the development of a second edition of the 'Dictionary of Algeria's Past, from Origins to 1962'. In 2023, he was awarded the Ibn Khaldun Prize for the Mediterranean.

Career history
Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Montpellier, 2015.
Transferred to the University of Montpellier 1 in 2014; UM1 and UM2 merged in January 2015.
Lecturer in Political Science, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, 2011.
Senior Lecturer in Political Science, University of Perpignan Via Domitia, 2003.
Certified Teacher of Economics and Social Sciences, 2002.
Contract Research Engineer, University of the Mediterranean, 1998.
Temporary Teaching and Research Assistant, University of Paris 13, 1995.
Education

Passed the first external competitive examination for the agrégation in political science, 2011.
Habilitation to Supervise Research in Political Science, University of Perpignan, Supervisor: Catherine Wihtol de Wenden, 2004.
CAPES in Economics and Social Sciences, 2002.
PhD in Political Science, University of Aix-Marseille III, Supervisor: Bruno Etienne, 1995.
DEA in Political Studies, University of Aix-Marseille III, 1991.
DEA in Research Training in Social Sciences, EHESS, 1990.
Diploma from the Institute of Political Studies (IEP) of Aix-en-Provence, 1989.
Teaching post at the University of Montpellier, Faculty of Law and Political Science
Research seminar: Epistemology and Research Methods in the Social Sciences – Epistemology and Research Methods in the Social Sciences, M2 IDIL Comparative Politics and Public Policy, specialising in Comparative Politics, S1 (20 hours).
Course coordinator for the module ‘Territories’

Djilali El Mestari, Researcher in Philosophy of Religion

Center for Research in Social and Cultural Anthropology

Djilali El Mestari is a Research Professor at the Center for Research in Social and Cultural Anthropology (CRASC, Oran, Algeria). He holds a Habilitation to Direct Research (HDR) and a Ph.D. in Philosophy of Religion from the University of Oran. He served as the Director of CRASC from 2017 to 2021, and was previously the Director General of the National Institute for Research in Education (INRE) from 2016 to 2017. His research focuses on religious discourse, education and citizenship, and the communitarian question. He has participated in numerous national and international projects, most recently leading two ongoing research projects on: social sciences and humanities textbooks (1963–2020), and the production of religious knowledge in official religious institutions.

In 2022, alongside researchers from Italy and France, he co-edited issue 95/96 of the journal Insaniyat on the socio-anthropology of the religious in the Mediterranean. He also co-edited a collective book published by CRASC with Dr. Soraya Mouloudji titled: Society and the Pandemic. He has published several articles and research papers on religious and educational discourse in Algeria. His three most recent publications include:

"Youth and the Discourses of Religious Authorities in Algeria: Findings from Field Studies" (co-authored), Insaniyat, issue on Socio-anthropology of the Religious in the Mediterranean, Vol. 1, No. 95, 2022.

"Institutionalized Religious Discourse During the First Period of the Pandemic in Algeria," in the collective book Society and the Pandemic, CRASC Publications, 2022.

"Second-Generation Islamic Education Textbooks in Algeria: Content and Stakes," High Islamic Council Publications, 2021.

Research Director specializing in Political Philosophy and the Social Sciences at CRASC. He has led several major socio-historical research projects, notably serving as the Principal Investigator for studies on local business elites and their relationship with power, women's political representation in Algeria, and a project (2023–2026) focusing on charities and social work in colonial Oran (1900–1950). His work also includes collaborative research on university systems, social change, and the critical mapping of Algerian history and memory.

Historian, archivist and former deputy director of the National Archives, and researcher at the Centre for Research in Social and Cultural Anthropology (Crasc).

Historian, researcher and Research Director at the CRASC (Oran) , ‘Socio-anthropology of History and Memory division, and deputy editor-in-chief of the journal Insaniyat.

Is a sociologist and historian, and the former President of the Oran People's Municipal Assembly (APC) from 2007 to 2010. He is currently an Associate Researcher at CRASC, having previously served as a Permanent Researcher there from 2006 to 2017. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the journal Insaniyat. A member of numerous national and international associations, he has authored several articles and delivered various conference papers.

Halima Moulay is a permanent researcher at the Center for Research in Social and Cultural Anthropology (CRASC) in Oran and a Research Professor (Full Professor) in modern and contemporary history. Her research focuses on the history of the national movement and the Algerian Revolution, alongside her interest in memory topics through her involvement in key institutional research projects, notably: Memory and Social Change in Algeria in the Dominant Discourse Among Categories of Youth 2011–2018. She is currently working on memory and sites of memory as a project leader, while serving as a member of a research project on the figures of the national movement in Algeria and their trajectories. She has also published several articles on memory and history among youth.