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Lecturer and Associate Professor at the University of Lyon 3. Her research focuses on cultural exchanges between the Arab Near East and the Maghreb in the 20th century, the history of colonization and decolonization in the contemporary Maghreb (notably Algeria), the history of the Arabic language and education in the Maghreb, and the history of Islamic reformism and Islamism (19th–21st centuries). Her recent publications include:
L’Algérie des Oulémas. Une histoire de l’Algérie contemporaine (1931-1991) [The Algeria of the Ulema: A History of Contemporary Algeria], Paris, Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2020.
Le Maghreb par les textes, XVIIIe-XXIe s. [The Maghreb through Texts, 18th–21st c.], with Annick Lacroix and Augustin Jomier, Paris, Éditions Armand Colin, 2020."

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