Projects
The rhythm of revolting aesthetics. A participatory action research in the audiovisual arts of Maghrebi diaspora in Brussels Ghent University
By engaging with self-affirming autonomous, but too often omitted forms of authorship in the audio-visual arts of Maghrebi diaspora in Brussels, the proposed research challenges the limits of visual anthropology as a field of study. Pursuing the aesthetic turn in political science and postcolonial studies and the decolonial turn in aesthetic theory, it proposes to analyze the rhythm of revolting aesthetics, or the various ways audio-visual ...
The Environmental Imagination in African Francophone Literature. An Ecopoetic Inquiry into Maghrebi, Sub-Saharan and Indian Ocean Islands Fiction (1990-present) Ghent University
Ecological issues occupy an ever-growing place in contemporary literature. I intend to examine how francophone novels and novellas by Maghrebi, Sub-Saharan and Indian Ocean islands authors address the environmental problems of Africa. As there was an ecological leap forward in the African literary imagination as a consequence of market globalisation and the establishment of capitalist regimes after fall of the Berlin Wall, I will focus on ...
Leaving Europe, Navigating Access: Status Migration, Traveling Habitus, and Racial Capital in Euro-Maghrebi Mobilities to the United Arab Emirates KU Leuven
This doctoral thesis is an ethnographic study that examines the emigration motives and social itineraries of second-generation Euro-Maghrebis who resettle to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) using a qualitative methodology. It focuses in particular on tertiary-educated EU citizens born and raised in Belgium, France and the Netherlands, who had at least one parent born in Morocco, Algeria or Tunisia, and who were themselves either ...
The Juridical Sufism of Aḥmad Zarrūq (D. 1493): Towards A Theory Of Applied Legal Epistemology KU Leuven
This research focuses on the pre-modern relationship between the disciplines of Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) and Sufism (taṣawwuf), Islamic mysticism. Essential to this relationship is the perceived tension between the different interpretations regarding the spirit and the letter of the Revealed Law (al-sharīʿa). Is the literal interpretation all we can understand from the divine law or is there another layer, a ...
Sufis Ethics and Democracy KU Leuven
Among contemporary Sufi orders (mystical Islamic religious movements), a new political and theological tendency has been developed in the last decades: Sufi counter reformism. Which is a Muslim political-theological movement, inscribed by the Islamic tradition, open to democratic values, and in opposition to Islamic reformism and Islamism. My main hypothesis is that some Sufi orders are playing an important role in the expansion of democratic ...
Development and implementation of a results based monitoring and evaluation system for the lobby and advocacy domain of the project 'Loujna-Tounkaranké' on internal migration in Niger, Mali, Senegal and Mauritania (2016-2018). KU Leuven
The CMS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. University of Antwerp
The H boson gateway to physics beyond the Standard Model Ghent University
In 2012, a scalar particle has been discovered at the LHC (CERN). As of today, its properties
match those of the Higgs boson of the Standard Model (SM), the current theory of
fundamental interactions. This discovery has crowned 50 years of research, including seminal
work done in Belgium by Brout and Englert. It has also opened a new era for particle
physicists, with more-than-ever pressing mysteries to face, including ...