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Crossfire KM | Terrorism and Geopolitical Tensions in the Middle East and the Maghreb in the Era of Covid19 | Interview with Olivier Roy

Exclusive – At a time when the whole world is facing an exceptional health situation, one would think that the fight against Covid-19 has become the main battlefield, and rightly so, given the lethality of the virus and its speed Read More …

NPR PODCAST | Protests Over Syria’s Economy Threaten Assad’s Hold On Power | with Mazen Ezzi (WPCS)

Posted onJune 30, 2020June 30, 2020

On 23 June 2020, the National Public Radio interviewed the researcher Mazen Ezzi of our Wartime and Post-Conflict in Syria project (WPCS) about the ongoing protests that are threatening Assad’s Hold On Power. Find the PODCAST here

CategoriesIn the Press, News, Syria Initiative

Is Europe Christian? | Olivier Roy’s latest book reviewed by Christianity Today

Posted onJune 25, 2020June 25, 2020

Conservatives, in the United States and elsewhere, are sometimes faulted for blaming “the 1960s” for many of today’s most persistent social ills. Surveying the situation in contemporary Europe, French social theorist Olivier Roy suggests that they are mostly right—at least Read More …

CategoriesIn the Press, News

PODCAST | Les mutations de la guerre en Libye, sous les influences russe et turque | with Virginie Collombier, Jalel Harchaoui

Posted onJune 7, 2020June 7, 2020

The strongman of the East has been weakened by a series of defeats in recent weeks. Could his Russian and Emirati allies drop him anyway? What follow-up for the Turkish operation in support of the Tripoli government? Has the conflict Read More …

CategoriesIn the Press, News

New Op-ed | Le croyant est-il un consommateur comme un autre ? | Olivier Roy

Posted onMay 8, 2020May 8, 2020

On 8 May 2020, BIBLIOBS hosted an op-ed (in French) by Prof. Olivier Roy. Après le temps de l’œcuménisme contre le virus, l’Eglise a fait de la réouverture des lieux de culte un casus belli avec l’Etat. Sauf qu’au lieu Read More …

CategoriesIn the Press, News

‘The 2nd wave of the Arab Spring’ | Georges Fahmi’s interview for NZZAS

Posted onOctober 29, 2019October 29, 2019

“We are watching a second wave of the Arab Spring”. In Lebanon, Iraq, Algeria and Sudan, people are again calling for the overthrow of regimes. Middle East expert Georges Fahmi warns against rash new elections. To continue reading the article Read More …

CategoriesIn the Press, News

Festival di Internazionale 2019 – Conversation with Olivier Roy | Radio Radicale (V.Manieri)

Posted onOctober 14, 2019October 14, 2019

Saturday 5th of October 2019, on the sidelines of the Festival di Internazionale 2019 taking place in Ferrara, Prof. Olivier Roy had a conversation with the journalist Valeria Manieri for Radio Radicale. In this talk Prof. Roy tackled various topics Read More …

CategoriesIn the Press, News

‘Cross purposes – The religious values of Europe’, The Times Literary Supplement

Posted onOctober 11, 2019October 11, 2019

In April 2018, the minister-president of Bavaria, leader of the Christlich-Soziale Union, ordered crosses to be displayed in the foyers of all government buildings, as an expression of the state’s “social and cultural identity” and “an affirmation of our cultural Read More …

CategoriesIn the Press, News

Olivier Roy. The sacred and politics. Interview with L’Espresso (in Italian)

Posted onSeptember 11, 2019September 11, 2019

The sacred and politics. Schuman, De Gasperi, Adenauer. They were religious people, the founding fathers of Europe. But they did not believe it necessary to highlight those roots. Today, however, there is an urge to because the roots are no Read More …

CategoriesIn the Press, News

Prof. Olivier Roy at the CL Rimini Meeting 2019 | Video released (in Italian)

Posted onAugust 28, 2019August 28, 2019

On Tuesday 20 August Prof. Olivier Roy was invited to the debate on Getting to know each other in order to understand one another, understanding one another in order to coexist, organised by Comunione and Liberazione in the frame of Read More …

CategoriesIn the Press, MEDirections Video, News

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