Photo Gallery
At the invited lecture “Warfare and Strategic Culture in the Bahri Mamluk Sultanate: New Perspectives on Military Thought and Practice”, organised by the Chair of the State of Qatar for Islamic Area Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo, 10 December 2025.
With, from right to left, Professors Daisuke Igarashi and Tetsuya Ohtoshi (Waseda University), and Alex Mallett (Chair of the State of Qatar for Islamic Area Studies, Waseda University).
At the international seminar Knowledge, Authority & Practice in the Mamluk Period: Reassessing Intellectual Life in Syria and Egypt (1250–1517), co-organised with Professors Daisuke Igarashi and Tetsuya Ohtoshi (Waseda University), 6 December 2025, Tokyo.
With Professors Tetsuya Ohtoshi (right) and Daisuke Igarashi (left), Waseda University.
On Thursday, 20 November 2025, an official ceremony was held at An-Najah University (Nablus) in the presence of the university’s president, Abdel Nasser Zaid, several professors and members of An-Najah University, as well as colleagues from the Jerusalem branch of the Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo), to formalize the signing of a three-year agreement between the Department of Medieval and Modern Arabic Studies (DEAMM) at Ifpo, represented by Mehdi Berriah, and the Department of Shariʿa at An-Najah University, represented by Jamal Zaid al-Kilani, Dean of the Faculty of Shariʿa and President of ANCERS (An-Najah Center for Religious Studies). This agreement aims to strengthen collaboration between the two institutions through joint research projects, academic activities, and student training, under the coordination of Mehdi Berriah (Ifpo) and Professor Jamal Zaid al-Kilani (An-Najah University).
At the Third Bethlehem International Conference held at Bethlehem University (18–19 November 2025), on the invitation of Professor Omar Abded Rabbo, Chairperson of the Humanities Department.
Visit to Bethlehem University and working meeting with Professor Omar Abed Rabo on the project conducted in collaboration with Ifpo: “Maghrebi and Andalusi Presences in Medieval Jerusalem and Palestine: Knowledge, Piety, and Space” (16 October 2025).
Participation in the international conference The Role of Muslim Scholars and Intellectuals in Europe, Faculty of Islamic Studies, Pristina (3–4 October 2025).
With Sami Mezouaki, Head of the Islam Unit at the Bureau central des cultes (BCC), during the oral presentation of the project « Le jihad au Moyen Âge : textes, contextes et pratiques (VIIe–XVe siècles) », Bureau central des cultes, Paris (24 September 2025).
Presentation of the book L’art de la guerre chez les Mamelouks (1250–1375) : stratégies et tactiques(Leiden, Brill, 2024) at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies in Paris (CAREP), with discussion by Hassan Bouali (19 March 2025).
At the 10th Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies, Dār al-Āthār al-Islāmiyya, Kuwait City (5–7 March 2024).
Meeting at An-Najah National University with Professor Jamal Zaid Al-Kilani, Dean of the College of Sharia and Director of the Center for Religious Studies (ANCERS), and Rana Qadri, on projects of scientific cooperation between Ifpo and An-Najah National University (22 October 2024).
International conference Mutual Understanding on Both Sides of the Mediterranean: Concepts, Ideas, and Perceptions, organised in collaboration with the University of Jordan, the International Institute for Islamic Thought, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, and Ifpo, Amman, Jordan (21–22 November 2024).
Workshop Paix et diplomatie à l’âge classique de l’Islam, organised with Makram Abbès, Director of the CEFREPA (Centre français de recherche de la péninsule Arabique), CEFREPA, Kuwait (3 March 2024).
International workshop Non-Muslim Contributions to Islamic Civilisation Heritage, organised in collaboration with Renée Hattar (RIIFS), Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, Amman (14 February 2024).
Lecture: “Ibn Taymiyya’s Corpus and Thought: State of the Art, New Research Perspectives and Re-evaluation”, College of Islamic Studies (CIS), Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, with discussion by Professor Gavin Picken (12 March 2023).
Lecture: “Ibn Taymiyya’s Methodology Regarding His Sources: Reading, Selection and Use”, College of Islamic Studies (CIS), Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, with discussion by Professor Gavin Picken (16 March 2022).