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DIRECTOR
Frédéric Lagrange is Professor of Arab Studies at Sorbonne Université, Paris. His research interests include the history of music in contemporary Egypt, dialectology, and the modern Arabic novel. His most recent work deals with cultural studies, at a crossroads between gender studies, linguistics and pop culture. His latest edited volumes are Culture Pop en Egypte, Entre Mainstream commercial et contestation (2020) and Les Mots du Désir, La langue de l’érotisme arabe et sa traduction (2020). He is also a translator of Arabic literature, classical and contemporary. His latest translation into French is Mohamed Rabie’s ʿUtarid (2021).
Researcher
Mélanie Henry holds a Ph.D. in history from Aix-Marseille University and is the author of several publications. Her research focuses on subaltern ways of living historical events in North Africa and on the history of psychiatry, psychology, and psychoanalysis, which she sees as a resource for historicizing individual subjectivities and emotions. Based in Cairo since 2023, she continues this reflexion on a transnational level, in particular through a comparison between Egypt and Algeria.
Hala BAYOUMI
Research engineer
Hala Bayoumi is a research engineer at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, which awarded its Crystal Medal to her in 2017. She holds a Ph.D. in computer science and applied mathematics from the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. She is the coeditor of the Atlas of Contemporary Egypt (CEDEJ 2023) and of “Digital Archiving in the Arab World” (EMA 2020). She runs CEDEJ’s Digital Humanities unit and supervises cooperation with CAPMAS on census data maps. She organizes the training of CAPMAS employees in data analysis and GIS analysis.
Alya El Hosseiny
Documentation/ research ASSISTANce
Alya El Hosseiny holds a PhD from New York University’s Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. Her research has spanned Arabic, French, and Latin American literatures, as well as cultural and urban studies, and her chapter, “The Author and the Authoritarian: Gamal al-Ghitani’s al-Zaynī Barakāt“, was published in Charlotte Baker’s and Hannah Grayson’s Fictions of African Dictatorship: Cultural Representations of Postcolonial Power. Prior to joining CEDEJ, she spent five years working in the independent music sector.
