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Dr Mehdi Ayachi

Research Fellow

Research project: The 'Omani Enlightenment': Circulation of Ideas and the Cultivation of Critical Thought in the Sultanate of Oman
Regional focus: Arabian Peninsula and notably the Sultanate of Oman

Positions

2022 - 2024
Non-Tenured Teaching and Research Fellow, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris
2018 - 2019
Non-Tenured Teaching Assistant, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris

Education

- 2023
Ph.D. in “Social Anthropology and Ethnology”, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris

Publications

2024 – “L’islam comme tradition? Thinking about Talal Asad”. L’Homme. Revue Française d’Anthropologie 250 : 5-24.

2022 – “De l’exil à l’appareil d’État : trajectoires élitaires des "pionniers" de la modernité littéraire omanaise”, Arabian Humanities, 15.

Grants and Awards

2024-2026 - Postdoctoral Fellowship – Fyssen Foundation
2024 - Thesis Award Recipient, Martine Aublet Foundation, Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac
2024 - Thesis Award Recipient, Institute for the Study of Islam and Muslim Societies, Paris
2024 - Honorable Mention for Thesis Prize, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris
2017-2018 - Associate Researcher with Doctoral Mobility Grant – French Research Center on the Arabian Peninsula, Kuwait City
2016-2019 - Doctoral Contract – School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris
2016 - Grant from the Martine Aublet Foundation – Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, Paris