Jean-Pierre Filiu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Jean-Pierre Filiu

French academic

Date of Birth: 19-Dec-1961

Place of Birth: Paris, ÃŽle-de-France, France

Profession: historian, arabist, political scientist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Jean-Pierre Filiu

  • Jean-Pierre Filiu (born in Paris, 1961) is a French professor of Middle East studies at Sciences Po, Paris School of International Affairs.
  • A historian and an Arabist, he has also been visiting professor at Columbia University (New York City, NY) and Georgetown University (Washington, DC).
  • He has been invited as a guest speaker to various American universities and think tanks, including the Harvard Kennedy School (Cambridge, MA) and the James Baker Institute (Houston, TX).
  • His "Apocalypse in Islam" was awarded the main prize (Augustin-Thierry) by the French History convention (Rendez-vous de l'Histoire), held every October in the city of Blois (this book, published in 2011 by the University of California Press is a in-depth study of Islamic eschatology and its contemporary narratives). Before joining Sciences Po in 2006, Jean-Pierre Filiu was a career-diplomat who served as a junior officer in Jordan and the US, before becoming the French Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) in Syria (1996–99) and in Tunisia (2002-2006).
  • Filiu was also diplomatic adviser to the French minister of Interior (1990–91), the minister of Defense (1991–93) and the Prime Minister (2000-2002).
  • He was one of the ten independent experts that President François Hollande designated to contribute to the 2013 White Book for National Defense and Security. Jean-Pierre Filiu authored some ten books, including "The Arab Revolution, ten lessons from the democratic uprising", published in 2011 by C.
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  • (in the UK) and Oxford University Press (in the USA).
  • This was the first academic attempt at explaining the movement that led to the demise of the presidents of Tunisia and Egypt in January–February 2011.
  • His previous research focused on the multi-faceted adaptation of Islam to globalized modernity.
  • He described the conflicting dialectics between local and global jihad.
  • And he highlighted how radical movements try to "modernize" traditional concepts, giving them a new meaning previously unknown in Islam, for instance in the case of the caliphate.
  • His works have been translated and/or published in a dozen languages. He has been interviewed by Christiane Amanpour, by BBC/The World and is a frequent guest to the English-speaking branch of France 24.
  • He has also published two graphic novels, including Best of Enemies (SelfMadeHero, 2012), illustrated by David B.
  • Finally, he wrote the lyrics of two popular songs, one about life in the Gaza strip, the other about the Syrian revolution.

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