A Call from Scholars for the Release of the Investigative Journalist and Researcher Ismail Alexandrani
Ismail Alexandrani was detained by Egyptian authorities on November 30th as he was coming back to his country to visit his sick mother. Alexandrani is one of Egypt’s brightest young researchers, who has spent the last few years doing ground-breaking work on the marginalized areas of Egypt – a blind spot in academic studies of the country – as well as on political Islam. His articles have featured in numerous publications and have been presented in international academic conferences, and they have earned him awards and fellowships. In his work, he has constantly demonstrated a genuine intellectual independence. He is a well respected member of the academic community, and someone we personally enjoyed working with. Alexandrani's arrest is a repression of free speech and should be condemned. We hope that he will be released promptly and return to his friends and to the research community.
Contact: academicswithalexandrani@gmail.com
Signatures
Francois Burgat
Research Director, Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France
Vincent Geisser
Research Director, CNRS, France
Alain Gresh
Le Monde Diplomatique, France
Miriam Catusse
Director of Contemporary Studies, Institut Français du Proche–Orient (IFPO), Beirut
Claire Beaugrand
Researcher, IFPO, Beirut
Nicolas Dot-Pouillard
Researcher, IFPO, Beirut
Laurent Bonnefoy
Researcher, CERI/Sciences Po, France
Matthieu Rey
Researcher, College de France, Paris
Stéphane Lacroix
Associate Professor, Sciences Po, France
Mounia Bennani-Chraïbi
Professor, Lausanne University, Switzerland
Ellen Lust
Professor, Yale and Gottenberg, USA-Sweden
Gibert Achcar
Professor, University of London (SOAS), London
John Chalcraft
Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London
Asef Bayat
Professor, University of Illinois, USA
Khaled Fahmy
Professor, American University of Cairo (AUC), Egypt
Rabab al Mahdi
Professor, AUC, Egypt
Olivier Le Cour Grandmaison
Historian, France
Farhad Khosrokhavar
Head of the “Centre d'Analyse et d'Intervention Sociologiques”, Ecole des
Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France
Olivier Roy
Head of the “Mediterranean Program”, European University Institute (EUI),
Florence, Italy
Nabil Mouline
Researcher, CNRS, France
John Tolan
“Institut du Pluralisme Religieux et de l'Athéisme” (IPRA), Nantes, France
Marwan Mohammed
Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris, France
Loulouwa Al Rachid
Researcher, CERI/ Sciences Po, WAFAW, France
Bertrand Badie
Professor, Sciences PO, France
Raphaël Liogier
Professor, Political Studies Institute (Aix-en-Provence) / International College of
Philosophy, France
Dominique Avon
Professor, Université du Maine, France
Paul Bonnenfant
Research Director, CNRS, France
Jean-Pierre Filiu
Professor, Sciences Po, France
Amélie Le Renard
Chargée de recherche, CNRS (CMH-PRO), France
Eliabeth Longuenesse
Researcher, CNRS, France
Richard Jacquemond
Professeur de langue et littérature arabes modernes, Département d'études
moyen-orientales, Université d'Aix-Marseille, France
Mohammed Hachemaoui
Chercheur Associé Institut de recherches et d'études sur le monde arabe et
musulman (IREMAM), France
Olfa Lamloum
Politologue, Tunisia
Jean Marcou
Directeur des relations internationales, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Grenoble,
France
Haoues Seniguer
Professor, Institut Supérieur d'Etude des Religions et de la Laïcité (ISERL), Lyon, France
Michel Dreyfus
Professor, CNRS, France
Sari Hanafi
Professor, American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon
Nadim Khoury
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Philosophy, University of Tromsø, Norway
Jean-Paul Chagnollaud
Professeur de Sciences Politique, Université de Cergy-Pontoise. Rédacteur en
chef de la revue Confluences Méditerranée, et directeur de la collection
«Comprendre le Moyen-Orient» L'Harmattan, France
Bernard Rougier
Professor, Sorbonne University, France
Miloud Chennoufi
Scholar, Department of Defense Studies, Canadian Forces College, Canada
Hélène Combes
Researcher, CERI/ Sciences Po, France
Cecilia Baeza
Professor, University of Brasilia, Brazil
Hamza Meddeb
Scholar, Carnegie Middle East Center (CMEC), Beirut
Roland Hatto
Professor, CERI / Sciences Po, France
Delfina Serrano
Researcher, Spanish National Research Council, Spain
Perron Catherine
Researcher, CERI/ Sciences Po, France
Matthieu Burnay
Scholar, Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, Belgium
Anne van der Graaf
Scholar, CERI/ Sciences Po, France
Florence Bouillon
Anthropologist, Université Paris 8, France
Pauline Poupart
Scholar, CERI/ Sciences Po, France
Loïs Bastide
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Xavier Houdoy
PhD candidate, French Institute of Geopolitics, University of Paris 8, France
Kristina Kovalskaya
Scholar, CERI/ Sciences Po, France
Nathalie Monot
Scholar, EHESS, France
Eric Darras
Professor of Political Sciences, Sciences Po, France
Julien Giry
Professor, Institut du Droit Public et de la Science Politique, France
Catherine Gegout
Lecturer in International Relations, University of Nottingham, UK
Michael Barbut
Professor, Sorbonne University, France
Sandrine Revet
Research Fellow, Sciences Po, France
Hélène Thiollet
Research Fellow, CNRS, France
Leila Vignal
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Rennes-2, France
Brynjar Lia
Professor in Middle East Studies, Contributing researcher at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Language at the University of Oslo, Norway
Laurence Louër
Professor and researcher, CERI/ Sciences Po, France
Roland Marchal
Researcher, CERI/ Sciences Po, France
Laurent Fourchard
Researcher, Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, Sciences Po- Bordeaux, France
Jean-François Polo
Researcher, Science Po- Rennes, France
Stéphanie Balme
Researcher, Head of the Sciences Po research group “Justice, Law and Society”, in China
Christian Lequesne
Professor of European Politics , CERI/ Sciences Po, Director of the CERI, France
Olivier Dabène
Professor of Political Sciences, CERI/ Science Po, France
Sami Makki
Assistant professor, Sciences Po- Lille, France
Luis Martinez
Researcher, CERI/ Sciences Po, France
Marie Vannetzel
Post-doc researcher, CERI/ Sciences Po, France
Juliette Honvault
Researcher, CNRS, France
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