#Med2019

Speaker

Speakers 2019

Gilles Kepel

Professor, Paris Science et Lettre (PSL) - École normale Supérieure and Università della Svizzera Italiana, France

Gilles Kepel is a French political scientist and Arabist, specialised in the contemporary Middle East and Muslims in the West. He is Professor at the Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) and director of the Middle East and Mediterranean Chair at PSL, based at Ecole Normale Supérieure.He is also Professor at the Univeristà della Svizzera italiana and scientific director of the Middle East Mediterranean Freethinking Platform. He has extensively published and is author of several books. His latest book is Sortir du Chaos: Les crises en Méditerranée et au Moyen-Orient, Éditions Gallimard, 2018 (Uscire dal caos: le crisi nel Medio Oriente e nel Mediterraneo, Raffaello Cortina 2019).