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Professeur boursier, Histoire internationale

Profil

PhD in History (Fribourg University) and Sociology (école des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris)
Dr Tejel has been a Research Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies (London, 2006-2007) and at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (Paris, 2007-2008). He was Lecturer at the University of Fribourg (2005-2006), the University of Neuchâtel (2008-2009) and again in Fribourg (2009). He is currently a “professeur boursier” at the Swiss National Science Foundation affiliated to the International History and Politics unit of the Graduate Institute where he leads a research project on “minority” conflicts in the Middle East (1948-2003). His main research interests include modern history, state/society relations, and state-building in the Middle East. His most recent books include Irak, chronique d’un chaos annoncé (Lavauzelle, 2006), Le mouvement kurde de Turquie en exil. Continuités et discontinuités du nationalisme kurde sous le mandat français en Syrie et au Liban (1925-1946) (Peter Lang, 2007), Syria’s Kurds. History, Politics and Society (Routledge, 2009), and Writing the History of Iraq: Historiographical and Political Challenges (edited with Peter Sluglett, Riccardo Bocco, and Hamit Bozarslan, World Scientific Press, 2012).

Domaines d'expertise

• Armed conflicts, violence
• Minorities
• Multiculturalism
• State-building / sovereignty
• Middle East and North Africa

Publications sélectionnées

• Writing the History of Iraq: Historiographical and Political Challenges (edited with Peter Sluglett, Riccardo Bocco, and Hamit Bozarslan), Singapore: World Scientific Press, 2012
• Syria’s Kurds: History, Politics and Society, London, Routledge, paperback 2011.
• Jordi Tejel and Clémence Scalbert-Yücel (eds) , "Introduction", Etudes rurales (Special issue "Ruralité, urbanité et violence au Kurdistan"), n° 186, 2011, pp. 9-19.
• "Un territoire de marge en Haute Djézireh syrienne" (1921-1940)", Etudes rurales (Special issue "Ruralité, urbanité et violence au Kurdistan"), n° 186, 2011, pp. 61-76.
• Syria’s Kurds: History, Politics and Society, London, Routledge, hard cover 2009.
• Le mouvement kurde en exil. Continuités et discontinuités du nationalisme kurde sous le mandat français en Syrie et au Liban (1925-1946), Bern, Peter Lang, 2007.
• Irak. Chronique d’un chaos annoncé, (Co-authored with Robert Belot), Panazol, La Vauzelle, 2006.
   

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