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Leyla Bloch-Blouza
PhD Candidate
Center for International Studies (CERI)
Discipline(s): Political Science
Subdiscipline(s): Comparative Politics
Research Group(s): Nationalism, religion, identity and discrimination; State, political regimes, mobilisations
Geographical Area(s): Middle East
Country(ies): Palestine, Lebanon
Language(s): French, English, Arabic, Italian, Russian
Biography
Leyla Bloch-Blouza is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the CERI, under the supervision of Stéphane Lacroix. A former student of the École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay and a graduate of Sciences Po’s Research Master’s in Political Science, she continued her academic training at the European University Institute, where she spent a year conducting predoctoral research.
Her research focuses on the interactions between religion and politics in the Near East. More specifically, her doctoral research examines, from a historical-sociological perspective, the role of religious actors within Palestinian and Lebanese Islamist movements since the 1920s.
Thesis topic
Beyond the temporal and the spiritual. Politico-religious field dynamics and the making of Islamist religious actors in Lebanon and Palestine since the 1920s, supervised by Stéphane Lacroix