Biography:
Imen is a Junior Research Fellow in Religion at Pembroke College Oxford. She works on the social and cultural histories of contemporary France and North Africa. She is currently working on a monograph that constitutes the critical biography of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Concurrently, she is working on a major new project that examines the Tunisian initiative to reform inheritance law, and the question of gender equality and secularism.
Faculty Research Area(s):
Study of Religions
Research Interests:
Secularism, Islam in contemporary society, Gender equality in Muslim societies, Islam and Muslims in France and the Maghreb.
Research Centres & Projects:
Religion and the Frontier Challenges Research Program
Links:
https://www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/person/dr-imen-neffati
Publications & Research Outputs:
Article: ‘The Rise and Fall of Hara Kiri, ‘Journal bête et méchant et de mauvais goût’ (1960-1986)’, French History Journal (Forthcoming)
Article: 'Anti-sociologisme, Zionism, and Islamophobia in Philippe Val's Charlie Hebdo', French Cultural Studies, 2021 https://doi.org/10.1177%2F09571558211027041
Chapter: ‘Secularism, Islamophobia and Free Speech in France’, in C.L. Riley (ed.), The Free Speech Wars (Manchester University Press, 2020)
