BIO

Yves Gonzalez-Quijano is an expert on digital culture in the Arab world, a subject that he researches for GREMMO, the Group for Research and Studies on the Mediterranean and the Middle East (linked to the Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée). He also teaches modern and contemporary Arab literature for the Department of Arab Studies at the Lumière Lyon 2 University, and has translated works by numerous Arab authors into French, including Mahmoud Darwich, Hanan El-Cheikh and Sonallah Ibrahim.
 

Since September 2006, he has used his weekly blog and research blog Culture et politique arabes to share his observations on political and cultural developments in the Arab world, and his book Arabités numériques. Le Printemps du web arabe was published by Sindbad / Actes Sud in 2012. Since January 2013, he has been a member of the team assembled by François Burgat for When Authoritarianism Fails in the Arab World (WAFAW), a programme initiated and financed by the European Research Council with the aim of analysing the changes brought about by the Arab Spring.

 

Bibliography :
• Arabités numériques. Le printemps du Web arabe, éd. Sindbad / Actes Sud, 2012.
• Internet et l’offre d’information au Liban, Institut français du Proche-Orient, 2001.
• Les Gens du livre. Édition et champ intellectuel dans l’Egypte républicaine, coll. CNRS Histoire, CNRS éditions, 1998.