Scientific Committee

Our Scientific Committee

The Scientific committee is composed of forty-three academics and experts from twenty-five countries. It plays an important role in the decision making process of publications and activities, and constitutes along with the high-level advisory, a force of proposition to improve the performance of the journal and raise its scientific standing.

Mr. Mohammed Abu Rumman Director of the Politics and Society Institute in Amman, Jordan.
Mr. Omar Achour Director of the Strategic Studies Unit in the Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies in Doha Qatar.
Mr. Moussaoui Ajlaoui Professor at the University Mohammed V in Rabat, Vice President of the Moroccan Observatory on Extremism & Violence, Morocco.
Mr. Abdelhak Bassou Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South, Affiliate Professor at FGSES, University Mohammed VI Polytechnique. Rabat. Morocco
Mr. Mohammed Belekbir Director of the Research Center on Values, Rabita Mohammadiya of Ulemas. Morocco
Mr. Abderahmane Belgourch Professor at the Faculty of Legal, Economic and Social Sciences (FSJES) .Qadi Ayad University, Member of the Executive Board of Moroccan Observatory on Extremism & Violence, Morocco.
Mr. Rachid Benlabbah Professor at Mohammed V University. Rabat. Morocco
Mr. El Hassan Boukantar Political scientist, professor of constitutional law. University Mohammed V. Morocco.
Mr. Mohammed Bouzlafa Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Legal, Economic and Social Sciences. Sidi Mohamed University, Fes Morocco.
Mr. Carlos Branco Major General (R) with the Portuguese Army. International Expert in Security and Defense Studies, Portugal.
Mr. Flavius Caba-Maria President and Director of the Political Department of Middle East Political and Economic Institute (MEPEI), Roumania.
Mr. Khalid Chegraoui Khalid Chegraoui is Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South and Vice Dean of FGSES at the Mohammed VI University. a member of the Founding committee of OMEV, Morocco.
Mr Rachid El Houdaigui Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South and professor of International Relations at Abdelmalek EssaadiUniversity, Tangier Morocco.
Mr. Mohammed Essaouri Professor of Humanities, and former president of the University IbnTofail in Kenitra Morocco.
Mr. Abderahim Manar Esslimi Professor of International Relations at Mohammed V University. Rabat. Morocco
Ms. Carola García-Calvo Senior Analyst in the Programme on Violent Radicalisation and Global Terrorism at the ElcanoRoyal Institute and Associate Professor at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC), in Madrid Spain.
Mr. Ladiba Gondeu Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of N’Djamena, Chad.
Ms. Amal Grami Professor at the University of Manouba, Tunisia.
Mr. Nour-Eddine Jallal Professor at sidimohamed Ibn Abdellah University in Fès. Vice President of the Moroccan Observatory on Extremism & Violence, Morocco.
Mr. Jeffry Kaplan Professor of religion at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh & a Senior Researcher at Danube Institute, Hungary.
Ms. Olga Karpacheva Researcher at the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia.
Mr. Mohammed Kerrou Professor of political science at El-Manar University of Tunis, Tunisia.
Mr. Sungsoo Kim Professor and Director of the Institute for Euro-African Studies at Hanyang University, South Korea.
Mr. Matthew Levitt Senior fellow and director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy’s Stein program on counterterrorism and intelligence, USA.
Mr. Marco Lombardi Director of ITSTIME research center professor at Università Cattolicadel Sacro Cuore, Italy.
Mr. Vidino Lorenzo Professor and the Director of the Program on Extremism at George Washington University, USA.
Mr. Mohammed Loulichki Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South and Affiliate Professor at the FGSES, at the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco.
Amb. Khalid Fathalrahman Head of ICESCO’s Center for Civilizational Dialogue
Dr. Kei Nakagawa President of Hagoromo University of International Studies; Board Member of the Japanese Center for Moroccan Studies. Japan
Mr. Djalil Lounnass Associate Professor at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Algeria.
Mr. Ragab Khalifa al Mariyed Dawo Professor of Political Sciences at Beni OualidUniversity, Libya.
Mr. Matsumoto Shoji Senior Fellow at Policy Center for the New South, Emeritus Professor at Sapporo Gakuin University, and President of the International Center on Separatism (Tokyo, Japan), Japan.
Mr. Jean-Luc Marret Senior researcher at the Foundation for Strategic Research in Paris, France.
Mr. Hicham Mellati Acting Director General of the Higher Institute of Magistracy, Director of Criminal Affairs and Grace, Ministry of Justice, Morocco.
Mr. Khalid Mouna Professor of Anthropology. University Moulay Ismael. Meknes. Morocco
Ms. Jennifer Santiago Oreta Professor at the Ateneo de Manila University, and Coordinator of the Ateneo Initiative for Southeast Asian Studies, Philippines.
Mr. Didi Ould Salek Director of the Maghreb Center for Strategic Studies, Mauritania.
Mr. John Edward Phillips Emeritus Professor at Hirosaki University in Japan. (USA).
Mr. Sadeq Rahimi Psychologist and Lecturer at Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, USA.
Mr. Mizanur Rahman Associate Professor, Gulf Studies Program and Center, Qatar University, Qatar.
Mr. Said Saddiki Professor of International Relations and International Law at sidimohamed Ibn AbdellahUniversity in Fès, Morocco.
Dr. Bakary Sambe Director of the Timbuktu Institute-African Center for Peace Studies. Dakar, Senegal.
Mr. Abbas Tahir Professor of RadicalisationStudies at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University in The Haguen, Netherlands.
Mr. Bachir Tamer Professor at the Faculty of Education Sciences, Mohammed V University, UNESCO Chair in Literacy and Adult Education at Mohammed V University, Morocco.
Mr. Jalal Toufiq Professor of Psychiatry atthe University of Rabat, Director of Arrazi Mental Health Hospital (Salé), Morocco.
Ms. He Wenping Professor and Research Program Director at the Institute of West-Asian and African Studies (IWAAS), Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China.
Mr. Aaron Y Zelin Founder of Jihadology, Richard BorowFellow at the WashingtonInstitute for Near East Policy, USA.