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Benoit Challand
New School for Social Research
Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact

United States
Discipline
Sociology
Sub Areas
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Development
Mediterranean Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Modernization
State Formation
Transnationalism
Maghreb Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Arab States
Jordan
Palestine
Tunisia
Yemen
Specialties
International Aid To The Arab Middle East
Palestinian Civil Society And Factionalism
Islamic Charities And Zakat
Languages
French (native)
English (fluent)
Arabic (intermediate)
Italian (fluent)
German (fluent)
Greek (advanced)
Latin (advanced)
Spanish (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2005 | Social and Political Science | European University Institute, Florence
MA | 2000 | Middle Eastern Studies | School of Oriental and African Studies, Uni of Lon
MA | 1999 | History | Universite de Fribourg, CH
Abstracts
How Political are Islamic Charities?: Debating Arab Charities in Comparative Perspective The Revolutionary Praxis of Civility in Tunisia and its Legacies An Unrealizable Objective? Federalism, Republican Constitutional Order, and the 2014 Yemeni Draft Constitution Reconstituting The Collective Body: Yemeni Debates about Federalism after President Saleh