SARAH EL COUHEN

PhD Student

PhD program:: XXXVIII
email: sarah.elcouhen@uniroma1.it; sarah.el.couhen@ehess.fr




supervisor: Matteo Aria (SARAS, Sapienza Università di Roma)
co-supervisor: Stéphanie Latte Abdallah (CNRS, CéSor-EHESS)
joint PhD: L'École des hautes études en sciences sociales (L'EHESS), Paris

Research: Post-2010 Islamic feminisms and female imamate in Italy and France : negotiation of worship spaces, discursive productions and international mobilizations

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

November 2022- ongoing
Ph.D. with scholarship in History, Anthropology, Religions, curriculum: Anthropology, “Sapienza” University of Rome

Joint Thesis Supervision (cotutelle) : Ph.D. in social sciences and gender, L'École des hautes études en sciences sociales | L'EHESS, Paris, ED°286 | L'École Universitaire de Recherche Sciences sociales du genre et de la sexualité (EUR GSST)
CéSor- UMR 8216

From October 2021 to June 2022
Training Course in Religious and Social Sciences, specialization : Islam in the contemporary world, University of Saint-Louis - Brussels

From February 2016 to March 2019
Master's Degree in International Sciences (Class LM-52) curriculum : MENA Politics, at the Department of Cultures, Politics and Society, University of Turin, double degree course with Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (Morocco)
Graduation mark : 110
Supervisor : Rosita Di Peri

From October 2015 to April 2019
Master's Degree in Comparative Analysis of Mediterranean Societies, at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University- Faculty of Governance Economics and Social Sciences, with the thesis : "Intesa (agreement) or attesa (expectation) : the Islamic, cultural centre of Italy - Great Mosque of Rome - is being organised for the institutionalisation of the Islam of Italy "
12 months ethnographic research
Supervisor : Badiha Nahhass
Vote : 17/20 with recommendation for publication

From November 2014 to July 2015
Specialised course in Law, University of Roma Tre

From October 2006 to July 2009
Bachelor's Degree in Law, Hassan II University of Casablanca - Faculty of Legal, Economic and Social Sciences

OTHER ACTIVITIES

September 2024
"Seminario Dottorandi" 2024, Ph.D. program in History, Anthropology Religions, Sapienza University of Rome, discussion of the first chapter of the thesis, discussant : Hanane Karimi

February- June 2024
Co-organizer of the seminar "Serendipità. Trovare qualcosa mentre si sta cercando qualcos'altro", Ph.D. in History, Anthropology, Religions, Sapienza University of Rome
• "Serendipity. Un paradigma" : shared reflection workshop with Mara Benadusi (University of Catania) and Ph.D. students of the XXXVIII and XXXIX cycles, starting from a re-reading of the article "The Magical Romance of Serendipity: On Fieldwork, Accidentality and Anthropological Knowledge", Archivio antropologico mediterraneo [Online], Anno XXV, n.24, (1) |2022
• "Serendipity. Intersezioni e dialoghi", Dialogue with Angela Biscaldi (Università degli studi di Milano Statale) and Isabelle Rivoal (CNRS, Lesc, Université de Paris Nanterre)
• Paper entitled : "The serendipity of the anthropologist. Thinking the future of the discipline from the evolution of the concept"

February- June 2024
Graduate Programme
"Religious Studies. Introduction to the history of religions and epistemology of religious sciences", EPHE | PSL

Febbraio- Giugno 2024
Stage URFIST (Unité Régionale de Formation à l'Information Scientifique et Technique)

May 2024
Participation as a speaker in the seminar of the Ph.D. program in Social sciences and gender,
L'EHESS, Paris | EUR GSST
Presentation of the ongoing research and discussion on the topic of the positionality of the social science researcher

April 2024
Participation as a speaker in the seminar "Feminist perspectives in political sociology", Ceraps- UMR : 8026, Université de Lille

September 2023
"Seminario Dottorandi 2023", Ph.D. program in History, Anthropology, Religions, Sapienza University of Rome
Presentation of the annotated thesis index, discussant : Sara Borrillo

July 2023
Participation as a speaker to the seminar "Contemporary Feminist Resistances", TABOO Collective, Sapienza University of Rome
Paper entitled : "Post-2010 Islamic Feminisms in Europe"

December 2022- June 2023
Co-organizer of the seminar "Antropocene. Cura dell'ambiente ed ecosistemi globali tra crisi, instabilità ed eredità scomode", Ph.D. in History, Anthropology, Religions, Sapienza University of Rome
• Dialogue between Stefania Barca (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela), Elena Gagliasso (Sapienza University of Rome) around the new italian edition of "The Death of Nature : Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution" of Carolyn Merchant (Editrice Bibliografica, Milano, 2022)
• Dialogue between Bron Taylor (University of Florida), Angelica Federici (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento), Eleonora d'Alessandro (DM Art Consulting e Museo MAXXI). Translators of the first chapter, published in ARGOS, of "Dark Green Religion : Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future" (University of California Press, 2009)

March- April 2023
Ph.D. training, BULAC- Bibliothèque universitaire des langues et civilisations

March 2023
Co-organizer of a conference entitled "Woman, Life, Freedom : six months after the beginning of the uprising", Sapienza University of Rome
Speakers: Mahnaz Dehnavi (Ca' Foscari University of Venice), Sanam Naderi (actress, translator and human rights activist), Arash Abbassi (playwright), Ghazal Poorhasan (Master's Degree in international public affairs and Middle Eastern Studies), Representatives of a group of Iranian students ( Luiss Guido Carli University and Sapienza University of Rome), Luciana Borsatti (journalist and author of books on contemporary Iran), Minoo Mirshahvalad (University of Copenhagen), Shirin Zakeri (Sapienza, University of Rome), Zahra Toufigh (lawyer of the Association "Donne libere iraniane")

February 2023
Participation as a speaker in Advanced Training Course " Politiche e Strumenti per la Gender Equality", Sapienza University of Rome
Lecture entitled : "Post-2010 Islamic Feminisms in Italy and France"

November-December 2022
Soft-Skills Training, Sapienza University of Rome
Communication and Scientific dissemination ; Evaluation processes in EU R&I funding

November 2022
Open Science Training, Humathèque, Campus Condorcet Aubervilliers

March - April 2021
In-depth course in "Governance and participation of Islam in Italy", University of Turin with the collaboration of PRIMED "Prevention and interaction in the Trans-Mediterranean space"

From February to May 2021
Advanced training course in Mariology and Islamic studies : "Mary, model of faith and life in Christianity and Islam. Dialogue, knowledge, collaboration", organized by the B. Giovanni Duns Scotus Chair of Mariological Studies of the Antonianum Pontifical University with the Commission International Marian Muslim Christian of the Pontifical International Marian Academy and the Islamic Cultural Center of Italy - Great Mosque of Rome

2021
Course Training in Gender Equality, UN Women Training Centre

WORKING EXPERIENCES

From September 2017 to November 2017
Internship at “Istituto Affari Internazionali” of Rome, participation in the Menara and Medreset research programs

From 2010 to 2014
Notary Clerk, Notary's Office, Casablanca

SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS

February 2024 : “Doctoral Students to Watch in Digital Religion Studies in 2023” in “Digital Religion Yearbook 2023”, International network of researchers, “Digital Religion. Network for New Media, Religion and Digital Culture Studies”, URL: https://www.digrel.com/digital-religion-yearbook

From 2015 to 2017
Scholarship based on excellence from Mohammed VI Polytechnic University - Faculty of Governance, Economic and Social Sciences

From 2016 to 2017
Erasmus-Mundus Scholarship, University of Turin

2013
Certificate in Appreciation of contribution to Doing Business 2013 : Smarter regulations for small and medium-size enterprises, World Bank

2012
Certificate in Appreciation of contribution to Doing Business 2012 : Doing business in a more transparent world, World Bank

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Bilingual : French, Arabic

Italian : C1, exam obtained with the "Excellent" grade

English : B2

Spanish : A2

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