François Burgat

François Burgat, a political scientist and arabist, is senior research fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research; since May 2008 he has been the head of the French Institute of the Near East.

François Burgat

He has lectured for, and given expert advice, to a wide range of academic institutions such as the World Economic Forum, NATO, and major private or public think tanks across the world. He has been a permanent resident in the Middle East for over 18 years: at the University of Constantine, Algeria (1973–1980), at the CEDEJ in Cairo (1989–1993), then as the director of the French Centre for Archaeology and Social Sciences in Sana'a, Yemen (1997–2003), and at the IREMAM (Institut de Recherches et d’Etudes sur le Monde Arabe et Musulman) in Aix-en-Provence (2003–2008).

Publications in English
  • The Islamic Movement in North Africa (U of Texas Press, 1997),
  • Face to Face with Political Islam (IB Tauris, 2002),
  • Islamism in the shadow of al-Qaeda, Paris, La Découverte 2005, (U. of Texas Press 2008).[1][2]

References
  1. Memorandum commissioned by the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament : "Europe and Asia between Islam and the United States", Centre for Dialogue, La Trobe, University, 3-5 Dec 2007
  2. Translation
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