Current Situation

Education

Degree
• March 08, 2012, Ph.D. Anthropology (Aix Marseilles University, Idemec)
Thesis Title:
in English: Construction of Islamic identity: religious learning in the Muslim institutions (mosques and Koranic schools) and Family, 465p.
in French (the original language): Construction de l'identité islamique : apprentissage religieux au sein des institutions musulmanes (mosquées et écoles coraniques) et de la famille, 465p.
Thesis supervisor: Dr Abderrahmane Moussaoui (Assistant professor HDR, Aix Marseilles University, Idemec).
Examiners: Dr Pierre Bonte, president (Research Dir. and Distinguished Research, Paris), Dr Franck Frégosi (Research Dir., Strasbourg), Prof. Hassan Rachik (Casablanca) and Prof. Mohamed Tozy (Aix-en-Provence, Casablanca).
Distinction: Mention très honorable avec les félicitations du jury à l’unanimité / Graduated with highest distinction.
• 2001-2002, Master 2 of Anthropology, Aix Marseilles University, Graduated with honors
• 2000-2001, Master 1 of Ethnology, Aix Marseilles University, Graduated with high honors.

Internships
2008, Theoretical and practical training: Scientific Communication (English/French), coordinated by Gary Burkhart.
2006, Summer school : « Observer le religieux aujourd'hui » / “Observing religion today”, organized by the Network of Excellence of research centers in Human sciences on the Mediterranean area: Ramses2, coord. Dionigi Albera (Idemec) and Mohamed Tozy (University Hassan II), Casablanca (Morocco).
2001, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature / Museum of Nature and Hunting, Internship supervisor, Mr. D’Anthenaise, first curator, Establishment and implementation of two surveys. First: « Pratiques et représentations au Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature » / “Practices and social representations at the Museum of Hunting and Nature”: observations, interviews in the gallery and analysis of guest books. Second: questionnaire on the museum's temporary exhibit « Vies de chiens » / “Dog Lifes”, (15/12/2000 au 31/03/2001), Paris (France).
1993, Internship at the Laboratory of Comparative Ethnology and Sociology at the University of Paris X-Nanterre, dir. Internship Roberte Hamayon, dir. laboratory, Nanterre (France).

Scholarship
2001-2002, Ministry of Higher Education and Research, National Merit Scholarship, France, 1 year.