TAHIRI Maïa

Contact details

maia.TAHIRI@univ-amu.fr

As a doctoral student in sociology, I study the social mobility of French executives from North African, in this case Moroccan, immigrant backgrounds, through their cultural consumption.

Functions

Doctoral student in sociology, ministerial contract

Part-time teacher in the sociology of observation at Aix Marseille University since 2025

Consultant MENA region & modern and contemporary Arab art, training for the Lyon EELV group on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - February 2025.

Temporary lecturer in political science at Sciences Po, Menton campus from 2023 to 2024.

  • Social movements in the Arab world since the 19th century
  • The Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Founder and publisher of the trilingual weekly media outlet Al Jaw on MENA art news from 2021 to 2024. Institutional subscribers: Arab World Institute, Louvre, Mucem.

Research assistant on migration dynamics in the Maghreb, Syria and Lebanon at the Carnegie Middle East Center, Beirut, 2018.

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Academic work

Provisional title of thesis : The Art of the In-Between? Understanding the social mobility of French executives from Moroccan immigrant backgrounds through their consumption culture. More details on https://theses.fr/s423925

 

Areas of research

Sociology of migration

Sociology of cultural practices

Sociology of transmission processes

Scientific coordinator, programme manager

Editorial committee Change in the Mediterranean, Issue 4, Empathy and justice in the Mediterranean: when emotion becomes the norm