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Nessim Znaien

is Professor of Colonial/Postcolonial Maghreb at Phillips-Universität Marburg, attached to the History Department and the Centre for the Near and Middle East (CNMS). He studied history in Lyon and Paris, and Arabic, Italian and Turkish at the University of Aix-Marseille.

After a doctoral fellowship at the Institut français de recherche sur le Maghreb contemporain (IRMC) in Tunis (Tunisia), he defended his doctorate at the Sorbonne University in Paris in 2017. He then became a lecturer at the University of Aix-Marseille before joining the University of Marburg in 2022. His research interests focus on everyday life, material culture, food and religion in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia.

Nessim Znaien is the project’s associate member.