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Lecturer and Associate Professor at the University of Lyon 3. Her research focuses on cultural exchanges between the Arab Near East and the Maghreb in the 20th century, the history of colonization and decolonization in the contemporary Maghreb (notably Algeria), the history of the Arabic language and education in the Maghreb, and the history of Islamic reformism and Islamism (19th–21st centuries). Her recent publications include:
L’Algérie des Oulémas. Une histoire de l’Algérie contemporaine (1931-1991) [The Algeria of the Ulema: A History of Contemporary Algeria], Paris, Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2020.
Le Maghreb par les textes, XVIIIe-XXIe s. [The Maghreb through Texts, 18th–21st c.], with Annick Lacroix and Augustin Jomier, Paris, Éditions Armand Colin, 2020."

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.