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Mohamed Amyn Nfaoui
PhD Candidate
Center for International Studies (CERI)
Research Interest(s): Elections, Sufism, Arab world, Electoral culture
Discipline(s): Political Science
Subdiscipline(s): Political Sociology, Comparative Politics
Research Group(s): State, political regimes, mobilisations, Nationalism, religion, identity and discrimination
Geographical Area(s): Middle East, North Africa
Country(ies): Morocco
Language(s): English, Arabic, Arabic (Moroccan)
Biography
Trained in the humanities and social sciences, Mohamed Amyn is a specialist in the North Africa/Middle East region, where he has lived during his various professional and academic experiences (United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Jordan). He was also president of Sciences Po Monde Arabe, the school's association dedicated to introducing students to the region's issues.
A keen student of religious history and sociology, his research has focused on the contemporary mutations of Sufism in the fight against "political Islam", using the Moroccan context as a case study in a master's thesis entitled "Bringing the Sufis Back In. The revival of Sufism in Morocco: a political anatomy of a religious legitimisation".
Since March 2023 he has been a doctoral student at the CNRS attached to the CERI, where he works on electoral processes in the same geographical context as part of the ANR Verelect. His current research focuses on the development of an electoral culture in the Kingdom since the 1997 elections.
Current Research
Electoral processes in the Arab world
Thesis topic
La consolidation d'une culture électorale en contexte monarchique : imaginaires et matérialités des processus électoraux au Maroc (1997-2027), supervised by Hélène Combes
Teaching
Politique comparée, Sciences Po Paris
