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He is a retired Professor of Higher Education and an Associate Research Director at CRASC (Oran). He has authored and coordinated numerous publications and notably served as the French Editor of the Africa Review of Books and as a member of the Executive Committee of CODESRIA (Dakar). He is currently dedicated to directing the development of a second edition of the 'Dictionary of Algeria's Past, from Origins to 1962'. In 2023, he was awarded the Ibn Khaldun Prize for the Mediterranean.

Career history
Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Montpellier, 2015.
Transferred to the University of Montpellier 1 in 2014; UM1 and UM2 merged in January 2015.
Lecturer in Political Science, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, 2011.
Senior Lecturer in Political Science, University of Perpignan Via Domitia, 2003.
Certified Teacher of Economics and Social Sciences, 2002.
Contract Research Engineer, University of the Mediterranean, 1998.
Temporary Teaching and Research Assistant, University of Paris 13, 1995.
Education

Passed the first external competitive examination for the agrégation in political science, 2011.
Habilitation to Supervise Research in Political Science, University of Perpignan, Supervisor: Catherine Wihtol de Wenden, 2004.
CAPES in Economics and Social Sciences, 2002.
PhD in Political Science, University of Aix-Marseille III, Supervisor: Bruno Etienne, 1995.
DEA in Political Studies, University of Aix-Marseille III, 1991.
DEA in Research Training in Social Sciences, EHESS, 1990.
Diploma from the Institute of Political Studies (IEP) of Aix-en-Provence, 1989.
Teaching post at the University of Montpellier, Faculty of Law and Political Science
Research seminar: Epistemology and Research Methods in the Social Sciences – Epistemology and Research Methods in the Social Sciences, M2 IDIL Comparative Politics and Public Policy, specialising in Comparative Politics, S1 (20 hours).
Course coordinator for the module ‘Territories’

Dr. Djilali ELMESTARI is a Principal Research Associate at the Centre of Research in Social and Cultural Anthropology/ CRASC (Oran, Algeria). He holds a habilitation and a Ph.D. in Philosophy of Religion from the University of Oran. He held the position of Director of the Centre of Research in Social and Cultural Anthropology (2017- 2021), and the position of Director General of the National Institute for Research in Education/ INRE, Algeria (2016-2017).
El Mestari’s area of interest includes themes related to religious discourse, education and citizenship, and community issues.
He has participated in several international and national projects, including two ongoingresearch projects conducted by the CRASC: “The Production of Religious Knowledge in Official Religious Institutions: case of the University of Religious Sciences in Constantine” and “Textbooks of School Subjects Related to Social Sciences and Humanities (1963-2020)”.
In the last two years, he has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Padua, Italy: The International Master in Religion, Politics and Global Society.
Among his most important and recent scientific production:
- 2022. Coordinator with Khalid Rhazzali and Dafne Accoroni (from Italy) of the 95/96 issues of Insaniyat Journal on "Socioanthropology of Religion in the Mediterranean Region"
- 2022. Co-editor with Soraya Mouloudji of the collective book “Society and the Pandemic”,
Publisher: CRASC.
In addition to three research papers addressing themes of religious and educational discourse in Algeria:
- 2022. Co-author of “Youth and the Discourse of Religious Referents in Algeria. Results of Field Surveys”. Insaniyat, Part 1, No. 95
- 2022. “The Institutionalized Religious Discourse During the First Period of the Pandemic in Algeria”. Society and the Pandemic
- 2021. The Second Generation of Islamic Education Textbooks in Algeria: Contents and Challenges. Published by the Higher Islamic Council

pecialism
Political philosophy
Area of interest
Social sciences
Academic rank
Research Director
Institutional research projects (PE)
• Charity and social action in colonial Algeria. A socio-historical study of the Oran region (1900–1950). BASAC
2023–2026 • Project leader
• Local business elites and relations with the authorities: a study of the cities of Oran and Constantine
2018–2023 • Project leader
• Elected women and political representation in Algeria
2013–2016 • Project leader
• Algeria between history and memory: people, events and places: Critical dictionary of the past and its representations ‘DICRAH’
2011–2013 • Member
• The university and social and cultural change in Algeria
2011–2013 • Member

Historian, researcher in the ‘Socio-anthropology of History and Memory (HistMém)’ division at CRASC (Oran) and deputy editor-in-chief of the journal Insaniyat.

Is a sociologist and historian, and the former President of the Oran People's Municipal Assembly (APC) from 2007 to 2010. He is currently an Associate Researcher at CRASC, having previously served as a Permanent Researcher there from 2006 to 2017. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the journal Insaniyat. A member of numerous national and international associations, he has authored several articles and delivered various conference papers.

Permanent Researcher at the Center for Research in Social and Cultural Anthropology (CRASC) in Oran, and Research Professor, Doctor in Modern and Contemporary History. She is interested in the history of the national movement and the Algerian revolution, as well as questions of memory, through her participation in several research projects within the institution, the most significant being the project: Memory and Social Change in Algeria in the Dominant Discourse among Categories of Youth (2011-2018).
She is currently working on themes related to memory and sites of memory, and is also a member of a project on the actors of the national movement in Algeria and their trajectories. Furthermore, she has published several articles on memory and history among youth.