85 Notable alumni of
New Sorbonne University - Paris III
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New Sorbonne University - Paris III is 497th in the world, 186th in Europe, and 13th in France by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 85 notable alumni from New Sorbonne University - Paris III sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Chiara Mastroianni
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- singeractorfilm actormusician
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Chiara Charlotte Mastroianni is a French actress and singer. She is the daughter of actors Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve.
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Marlène Schiappa
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- writeropinion journalistwomen's rights activistpolitician
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Marlène Schiappa is a French writer and politician who served as State Secretary for the Social and Solidarity Economy and Associative Life, attached to the Prime Minister, in the Borne government (2022–2023), as Minister Delegate in charge of Citizenship, attached to the Minister of the Interior, in the government of Prime Minister Jean Castex (2020–2022) and as Secretary of State for Gender Equality in the government of Prime Minister Édouard Philippe (2017–2020).
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Claude Lelouch
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- cinematographerwriterfilm editorfilm produceractor
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Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouch is a French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer. Lelouch grew up in an Algerian Jewish family. He emerged as a prominent director in the 1960s. Lelouch gained critical acclaim for his 1966 romantic melodrama film A Man and A Woman. At the 39th Academy Awards in 1967, A Man and a Woman won Best Original Screenplay and Best Foreign Language Film. Lelouch was also nominated for Best Director. While his films have gained him international recognition since the 1960s, Lelouch's methods and style of film are known for attracting criticism.
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Lisa Eckhart
- Enrolled in New Sorbonne University - Paris III
- Studied German studies and Slavic studies
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- germanistpoetwriternovelistcabaret performer
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Lisa Eckhart is an Austrian poetry slammer, comedian, and cabaret artist.
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Julie Gayet
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- directorfilm directorfilm produceractorfilm actor
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Julie Gayet is a French actress and film producer. She is also known for being the wife of the former President of France, François Hollande.
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Alan García
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- politicianlawyerwriterjuristsociologist
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Alan Gabriel Ludwig García Pérez was a Peruvian politician who served as President of Peru for two non-consecutive terms, from 1985 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2011. He was the second leader of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA), and its only member to serve as president. Mentored by the APRA's founder, Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, he served in the Constituent Assembly of 1978–1979. Elected to the Peruvian Congress in 1980, he rose to the position of General Secretary of the APRA in 1982, and was elected to the presidency in 1985 in a landslide.
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Géraldine Nakache
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- screenwriterfilm directoractorfilm actor
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Géraldine Nakache is a French actress, director and screenwriter.
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Anaïs Demoustier
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- film actoractorstage actor
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Anaïs Aude Marie Michèle Demoustier is a French actress. She was nominated for Most Promising Actress twice at the César Awards, in 2009 for Les Grandes Personnes and in 2011 for Living on Love Alone. In 2020, she won the César for Best Actress for her performance in the film Alice and the Mayor.
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Olivier Assayas
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- screenwriterfilm directorfilm critic
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Olivier Assayas is a French film director, screenwriter and film critic. Assayas is known for his eclectic filmography, consisting of slow-burning period pieces, psychological thrillers, neo-noirs, and comedies. He has directed French, Spanish, and English-language films with international casts. The son of filmmaker Jacques Rémy, Assayas began his career as a critic for Cahiers du Cinéma. There he wrote about world cinema and its film auteurs, who later influenced his work. Assayas made several short films, and made his feature debut with Disorder in 1986.
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Cédric Klapisch
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- screenwriterfilm directorfilm produceractorfilm actor
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Cédric Klapisch is a French film director, screenwriter and film producer.
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Jean-Pierre Thiollet
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- journalistwriter
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Jean-Pierre Thiollet is a French writer and journalist. He is also affiliated with the European Confederation of Independent Trade Unions, a European trade union.
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Youssoupha
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- lyricistrappersingermusic executive
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Youssoupha Mabiki, better known by his nickname Youssoupha is a French and Congolese rapper.
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Zineb El Rhazoui
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- journalist
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Zineb El Rhazoui, known mononymously as Zineb, is a French journalist. She was a columnist for the Paris-based satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo from 2011 to 2017, but was in Morocco during the Charlie Hebdo shooting on 7 January 2015.
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Christian Lacroix
- Enrolled in New Sorbonne University - Paris III
- Studied in 1971
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- designerinterior designerpostage stamp designergrand couturierfashion designer
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Christian Marie Marc Lacroix is a French fashion designer. The name also refers to the company he founded.
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Kim Chapiron
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- screenwritercomposerfilm director
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Kim Chapiron is a French film director, screenwriter, and musician of Vietnamese descent.
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Verónika Mendoza
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- psychologistanthropologistpolitician
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Verónika Fanny Mendoza Frisch is a Peruvian-French psychologist, educator, and politician. She is the founder and current leader of the New Peru movement.
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Arnaud Desplechin
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- actorscreenwritercinematographerdirectorfilm director
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Arnaud Desplechin is a French film director and screenwriter.
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Alan Stivell
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- activistsongwritermusic arrangerharpistrecording artist
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Alan Stivell is a French Celtic musician and singer, songwriter, recording artist, and master of the Celtic harp from Brittany.
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Maryse Condé
- Enrolled in New Sorbonne University - Paris III
- In 1976 graduated with doctorate in France in comparative literature
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- playwrightwriteruniversity teacherchildren's writerliterary scholar
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Maryse Condé was a French novelist, critic, and playwright from the French Overseas department and region of Guadeloupe. She was also an academic, whose teaching career took her to West Africa and North America, as well as the Caribbean and Europe. As a writer, Condé is best known for her novel Ségou (1984–1985).
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Ghassan Salamé
- Enrolled in New Sorbonne University - Paris III
- Graduated with doctorate in France
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- university teacherpolitical scientistpolitician
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Ghassan Salamé is a Lebanese academic who currently serves as the Minister of Culture since February 2025. He previously served in the same position from 2000 to 2003. He was the Dean of the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) and professor of International Relations at Sciences Po. Salamé served as the head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya from 2017 to 2020.
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Arthur Dupont
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- actorfilm actor
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Arthur Dupont is a French actor. He was born in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France.
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Elizabeth Duval
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- novelistwritercriticphilosopherpoet
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Elizabeth Duval is a Spanish novelist, poet, philosopher, philologist, critic, and trans rights activist. She has been current secretary of communication for the electoral alliance Sumar between 2023 and 2025.
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Pedro Paulet
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- diplomatengineerphysicist
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Pedro Eleodoro Paulet Mostajo was a Peruvian diplomat and engineer. Some early rocket experts described him as a pioneer in aeronautics, saying that he was the first person to build a liquid-propellant rocket engine and modern rocket propulsion system, but his experiments were never independently verified.
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Esther Benbassa
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- Judaic scholaruniversity teacherwriterhistorianpolitician
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Esther Benbassa-Dudonney is a Turkish-Israeli-French historian and politician. She specializes in the history of Jews and other minorities. Between 2011 and 2023, Benbassa served as a French senator, representing Paris (2017–2023) and Val-de-Marne (2011–2017).
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Delphine O
- Enrolled in New Sorbonne University - Paris III
- Studied German
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- politicianentrepreneuradministrator
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Delphine O is a French politician and a former member of the French National Assembly, who represented Paris. She is the Secretary General of the Generation Equality Forum 2021.
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Nadine Heredia
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- politiciansociologist
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Nadine Heredia Alarcón de Humala is a Peruvian politician. As the wife of President of Peru Ollanta Humala, she served as the First Lady of Peru from 2011 to 2016. The President of the Peruvian Nationalist Party (PNP), which formed the Peru Wins electoral alliance in 2011, Heredia is seen as a highly influential figure in Peruvian politics. She has headed the PNP since December 2013.
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Marie-Hélène Lafon
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- professeur agrégéwriter
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Marie-Hélène Lafon is a French educator and award-winning writer.
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Elias Khoury
- Enrolled in New Sorbonne University - Paris III
- In 1972 graduated with doctorate in France in social history
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- playwrightwriterediting staffuniversity teacherjournalist
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Elias Khoury was a Lebanese novelist and advocate of the Palestinian cause. His novels and literary criticism have been translated into several languages. In 2000, he won the Prize of Palestine for his book Gate of the Sun, and he won the Al Owais Award for fiction writing in 2007. Khoury also wrote three plays and two screenplays.
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Marie de Hennezel
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- psychoanalystwriternon-fiction writerpsychologistpsychotherapist
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Marie de Hennezel is a French psychologist, psychotherapist and writer. She is known for her commitment to improving conditions at the end of life. Her books, her two reports to the government, and her speeches on the subject have contributed to the evolution of the image of aging and old age in society.
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Candice Parise
- Enrolled in New Sorbonne University - Paris III
- Studied in 2007-2010
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- singeractor
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Candice Parise is a French actress and singer.
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Lilith Verstrynge
- Enrolled in New Sorbonne University - Paris III
- Graduated with postgraduate education
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- politician
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Lilith Verstrynge Revuelta is a Spanish former politician. The daughter of Jorge Verstrynge, with whom she shared membership of Podemos, she served in the Congress of Deputies for six months up to January 2024, and was Secretary of State for the 2030 Agenda from July 2022 to November 2023.
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Burhan Ghalioun
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- university teachersociologistpolitician
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Burhan Ghalioun is a French-Syrian professor of sociology at the Université de Paris III Sorbonne University in Paris, and the first chairman of the Syrian National Council (SNC). He was named chairman on 29 August 2011. His chairmanship was criticized for his perceived closeness to the Muslim Brotherhood, his early reluctance to arm opposition forces, and what opponents called the autocratic nature of his leadership. On 17 May 2012, feeling he had become an increasingly divisive figure for the council, Ghalioun resigned.
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Katerina Moutsatsou
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- activistfilm directorfilm produceractor
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Katerina Moutsatsou or Moutsatsos is a Los Angeles-based Greek actress, producer, writer, and activist. She is the author and producer of experimental films, videos, and animation series, which focus mainly on subjects related to her country of origin, Greece. She is vocal on the area of politics, and cultural identity. Her political animation series Sara and Mara Greek: Η Σάρα και η Μάρα was published by the Greek newspaper Eleftherotypia.
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Youssef Seddik
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- anthropologistjournalistphilosopherhistorian
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Youssef Seddik is a noted Tunisian philosopher and anthropologist specializing in Ancient Greece and the anthropology of the Qur'an.
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Mariem Ben Chaabane
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- actor
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Mariem Ben Chaabane is a Tunisian actress. She is especially known for her roles in the Tunisian series Casting and Machair.
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Laïla Marrakchi
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- film directorscreenwriter
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Laila Marrakchi is a Moroccan film maker most famous for the film Marock. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. She is married to film director Alexandre Aja. She grew up in the upper class Casablanca milieu that is portrayed in Marock.
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Predrag Matvejević
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- opinion journalistuniversity teacherliterary historianessayisttranslator
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Predrag Matvejević was a Bosnian and Croatian writer and scholar. A literature scholar who taught at universities in Zagreb, Paris and Rome, he is best known for his 1987 non-fiction book Mediterranean: A Cultural Landscape, a seminal work of cultural history of the Mediterranean region which has been translated into more than 20 languages.
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Agnès Hurstel
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France - Occupations
- screenwriterfilm directoractorcomedian
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Agnès Hurstel is a French actress, comedian and radio columnist. She is co-creator, co-writer and lead actress of the series Jeune et Golri (2021–present), which won the award for best French series at Series Mania in August 2021.
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Dina Bousselham
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- political adviserpolitical scientistassociation football playerpolitician
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Dina Bousselham is a Moroccan political advisor, candidate, and political scientist affiliated with the Spanish political party Podemos, and the director of the online newspaper La Última Hora! As a political science student at the Complutense University of Madrid she took classes with Pablo Iglesias Turrión, who was a lecturer there. When Iglesias founded Podemos in 2014 and won election as a Member of the European Parliament, he chose Bousselham as the head of his cabinet of advisors. Bousselham was later named as a manager of the Podemos party apparatus in Madrid, and she was chosen in a primary election as a Podemos candidate for the regional citizens council in 2019. However, after her application for Spanish citizenship was denied, she was not able to contest the general election. In 2020, she left Podemos to head the digital news service La Última Hora!
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Meherzia Labidi Maïza
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- teachertranslatorpolitician
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Meherzia Labidi Maïza was a Tunisian politician and professional translator and interpreter. She became the first deputy speaker of the Constituent Assembly of Tunisia.
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Nedim Gürsel
- Enrolled in New Sorbonne University - Paris III
- In 1979 graduated with doctorate in France
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- writeruniversity teacher
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Nedim Gürsel is a Turkish writer. In the late 1960s, he published novellas and essays in Turkish magazines. After graduating from Galatasaray High School in 1970, he studied at the Sorbonne. In 1974, he graduated from the Sorbonne's Department of Modern French Literature. In 1979, he received his doctorate in comparative literature after completing his dissertation on Louis Aragon and Nazim Hikmet. He returned to Turkey, but the unrest there in 1980 persuaded him to go back to France.
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Miro Kovač
- Enrolled in New Sorbonne University - Paris III
- In 1999 graduated with doctorate in France
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- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Miro Kovač is a Croatian historian, diplomat and politician who served as the Minister of Foreign and European Affairs in the Cabinet of Tihomir Orešković from 22 January 2016 until 19 October 2016. He is member of the conservative Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) party.
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Jean-Christophe Attias
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- historianHebraistphilosopherdirector of studies
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Jean-Christophe Attias is a French Jewish historian and scholar.
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Mathieu Riboulet
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- screenwriterdirectorfilm directorwriteractor
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Mathieu Riboulet was a French writer and film director.
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Louis-Philippe Dalembert
- Enrolled in New Sorbonne University - Paris III
- In 1996 graduated with doctorate in France in comparative literature
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- novelistshort story writerwriternon-fiction writerpoet
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Louis-Philippe Dalembert is a Haitian poet and novelist. He writes in both French and Haitian creole. His works have been translated into several languages. He was awarded the Goncourt Prize for poetry for his body of work. He now divides his home between Paris, France, and Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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Mireille Guiliano
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- writerinterpreternon-fiction writeropinion journalist
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Mireille Guiliano is a French-American author, painter, and former corporate executive at LVMH.
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Fawzia Zouari
- Enrolled in New Sorbonne University - Paris III
- Graduated with diplôme d'études approfondies in theatre studies
- Graduated with doctorate in France in French literature and comparative literature
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- novelistnon-fiction writerjournalist
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Fawzia Zouari, born 10 September 1955 in Dahmani, is a Tunisian writer and journalist.
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Jacques Aumont
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- university teacherfilm theoristfilm critic
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Jacques Aumont is a French academic and writer on film theory.
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Léonor Serraille
- Enrolled in New Sorbonne University - Paris III
- Graduated with French masters degree
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- film directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Léonor Serraille is a French screenwriter and director.
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Julie Wolkenstein
- Enrolled in New Sorbonne University - Paris III
- In 1996 graduated with doctorate in France in comparative literature
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- novelisttranslatornon-fiction writer
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Julie Wolkenstein is a French writer born in 1968 in Paris. She is the daughter of academician Bertrand Poirot-Delpech and, by her mother, the granddaughter of French industrialist Maurice Jordan.
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Mirela Kumbaro
- Enrolled in New Sorbonne University - Paris III
- 1993-1994 studied translation studies and interpretation
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- translatorromanistuniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Mirela Kumbaro Furxhi, is an Albanian politician currently serving as the Minister of Education of Albania since 19 September 2025. Previously she has served as the Minister of Tourism and Environment from 2021 to 2025 and as the Minister of Culture from 2013 to 2019.
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Hind Meddeb
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- film directordocumentarianjournalist
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Hind Meddeb is a French journalist and documentary film director with a North African family background. Based in Paris, France, she works both in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. In her films and journalistic writing, she has presented social protests of young people and their culture in Morocco, Tunisia, Sudan and Egypt. Documenting their social situation and political expressions in the context of the Arab revolutions, she has further focussed on rap music or other kinds of counter-culture and protest in these countries.
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Pierre Lory
- Enrolled in New Sorbonne University - Paris III
- In 1982 graduated with doctorate in France
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- university teacherdiplomatjournalistarabistIslamicist
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Pierre Lory is director of studies emeritus at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, and a former holder of the chair of Islamic mysticism.
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Yair Auron
- Years
- 1945-.. (age 81)
- Enrolled in New Sorbonne University - Paris III
- Studied in 1980
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- historian
- Biography
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Yair Auron is an Israeli historian, scholar and expert specializing in Holocaust and genocide studies, racism and contemporary Jewry. Since 2005, he has served as the head of the Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication of the Open University of Israel and an associate professor.
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Amor Ben Salem
- Enrolled in New Sorbonne University - Paris III
- Graduated with doctorate in France
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- translator
- Biography
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Amor Ben Salem is a Tunisian Arabic writer.
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Alain Bergala
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- screenwriterfilm directorfilm critic
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Alain Bergala, is a French film critic, essayist, screenwriter and director.
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Per Aage Brandt
- Enrolled in New Sorbonne University - Paris III
- In 1987 graduated with doctorate in France
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- romanistlinguistfilm actorpoetjazz musician
- Biography
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Per Aage Brandt was a Danish writer, poet, linguist and musician, born in Buenos Aires. He got his Master of Arts in Romance Philology from the University of Copenhagen (1971) & held a Doctorate of Semiotics from the Sorbonne University (1987).
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André Gattolin
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- docentecologistpolitician
- Biography
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André Gattolin is a French ecologist politician and Senator for Hauts-de-Seine from 2011 to 2023.
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Christine Jordis
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- writerliterary criticjournalistpublisher
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Christine Jordis real name Marie-Christine Morel de Foucaucourt is a French writer, journalist and editor, a specialist in English literature.
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Jean-Yves Mollier
- Enrolled in New Sorbonne University - Paris III
- Graduated with doctorate in France
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- historiandocentuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Jean-Yves Mollier is a French contemporary history teacher.
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André Gaudreault
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- university teacher
- Biography
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André Gaudreault OC FRSC is a Canadian film historian and theorist who holds the Canada Research Chair in Film and Media Studies.
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Athina Coustenis
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- astrophysicist
- Biography
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Athena Coustenis is an astrophysicist specializing in planetology. Coustenis, a French national, is director of research, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, at LESIA (Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique), at the Paris Observatory, Meudon. She is involved in several space mission projects for the European Space Agency (ESA) and for NASA. Her focus is on gas giant planets Saturn, Jupiter and their moons, and she is considered a foremost expert on Saturn's moon Titan.
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Pascal-Alex Vincent
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- film directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Pascal-Alex Vincent is a French director, author of original work, screenwriter, and voice-over.
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Mike Downey
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- writertheatre managerfilm producerscreenwriter
- Biography
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Michael Downey OBE is an Irish-British film producer. He is the co-founder and CEO of Film and Music Entertainment and as of 2020 the Chairman of the European Film Academy.
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Jacques Lafaye
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- anthropologistwriterethnologisthistorian
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Jacques Lafaye was a French historian who wrote on cultural and religious Spanish and Latin American history. His most popular work is Quetzalcoatl and Guadalupe written in 1974 regarding the formation of the Mexican National Consciousness and includes a prologue by Octavio Paz and is regarded as a keystone for the understanding of the contemporary Mexican culture and is regarded as one of the most comprehensive analyses of the colonial period in Mexico.
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Nicolas Tournadre
- Years
- 1959-.. (age 67)
- Enrolled in New Sorbonne University - Paris III
- In 1992 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- linguistresearch fellowtranslatoruniversity teacherTibetologist
- Biography
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Nicolas Tournadre is a professor at the University of Provence specializing in morphosyntax and typology. He is a member of the LACITO lab of the CNRS.
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Alexandre François
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- linguistresearcher
- Biography
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Alexandre François is a French linguist specialising in the description and study of the indigenous languages of Melanesia. He belongs to Lattice, a research centre of the CNRS and École Normale Supérieure dedicated to linguistics.
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Laurence Gavron
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- film directorfilmmakerwriterfilm screenwriterphotographer
- Biography
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Laurence Gavron was a French-Senegalese film director, writer, and photographer.
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Kalthoum Bornaz
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- film producerscreenwriterfilm director
- Biography
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Kalthoum Bornaz was a Tunisian screenwriter, film editor, and director who belonged to the first generation of women filmmakers in Tunisia. She was born in Tunisia on 24 August 1945 and moved to France in order to continue her education abroad. She worked both in Tunisia and overseas on the development of many feature-length films as an editor and director.
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Yann Richard
- Enrolled in New Sorbonne University - Paris III
- In 1973 graduated with doctorate in France in Islamic studies and Arabic studies
- Occupations
- iranologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Yann Richard, born in 1948 in Joncy, France, professor emeritus of the Sorbonne nouvelle (Paris) is a specialist of modern Shiʿism, the history of contemporary Iran as well as Persian literature.
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Isabel Wiseler-Santos Lima
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- secondary school teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Isabel Wiseler-Santos Lima is a Portuguese-born Luxembourgish politician of the Christian Social People's Party (part of the European People's Party group) who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since the 2019 European elections.
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Divina Frau-Meigs
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- university teachersociologist
- Biography
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Divina Frau-Meigs is a Moroccan-born sociologist of media and professor at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University Paris III (Paris III) in France where her areas of research include, cultural diversity, dynamic identities, human/children's rights, internet governance, media education, media matrices, media in English-speaking countries, and risky content. Her research has also included media content and risk behaviors, the reception and use of Information and communications technology, and American studies. She is the chair of "Savoir-devenir in sustainable digital development" for UNESCO and coordinator of "TRANSLIT" for the Agence nationale de la recherche.
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René Gutman
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- rabbi
- Biography
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René Gutman was Chief Rabbi of Strasbourg from 1987 to 2017.
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Claudine Lepage
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- politician
- Biography
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Claudine Lepage is a member of the Senate of France, representing the constituency of French citizens living abroad. She is a member of the Socialist Party.
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Jean Bessière
- Years
- 1943-.. (age 83)
- Occupations
- university teacherliterary critic
- Biography
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Jean Bessière is professor of Comparative Literature at the Sorbonne, and was educated at the École Normale Supérieure and holds a PhD (docteur d'Etat) from the Sorbonne as well as being agrégé in Modern Letters. He is the author of numerous books on Comparative Literature and is the president emeritus of the International Comparative Literature Association. His most recent works include La littérature et sa rhétorique (PUF, 1999), Quel statut pour la littérature? (PUF, 2001), Principes de la theorie littéraire (PUF, 2005) and Le roman contemporain ou la problématicité du monde (PUF 2010). Jean Bessière has been on the faculty of numerous universities including Indiana University, Stanford, McGill and several French universities. In 2008 the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature dedicated an entire issue to him entitled: "Jean Bessière - Literature and Comparative Literature Revisited." Jean Bessière frequently lectures at universities throughout the world.
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Christophe Cognet
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- documentary filmmakerscreenwriterfilm director
- Biography
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Christophe Cognet is a French film director and documentary filmmaker.
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Aminata Aidara
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- journalistnovelist
- Biography
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Aminata Aidara is an Italian-Senegalese journalist, short story writer and novelist.
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Alexis Michaud
- Years
- 1975-.. (age 51)
- Occupations
- linguist
- Biography
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Alexis Michaud is a French linguist specialising in the study of Southeast Asian languages, especially Naic languages and Vietnamese. He is also known for his work on the typology of tonal languages and as a foremost proponent of Panchronic phonology. He is one of the main editors of the Pangloss Collection. He works at the LACITO research centre within Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.
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Corinne Maury
- Occupations
- film criticfilm directorfilm historianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Corinne Maury is a professor in film studies at University of Poitiers as well as a film director.
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Rama Thiaw
- Enrolled in New Sorbonne University - Paris III
- Graduated with French university master
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Rama Thiaw is a Senegalese filmmaker and screenwriter. She is known for her 2009 documentary Boul Fallé, la Voie de la lutte and her most recent documentary The Revolution Won’t be Televised (2016).
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Nayla Tamraz
- Born in
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Lebanon - Occupations
- university teacherexhibition curatorwriter
- Biography
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Nayla Tamraz is a Lebanese writer, art critic, curator, researcher and professor of Literature and Art History at Saint Joseph University of Beirut. She obtained her PhD in Comparative Literature from the New Sorbonne University (Paris III) in 2004.
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Marie-Pascale Huglo
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- children's writernovelistuniversity teacherliterary criticessayist
- Biography
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Marie-Pascale Huglo is a French-born writer and educator living in Quebec.
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András István Türke
- Occupations
- historiansecurity policy expertpolitical scientist
- Biography
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András István Türke is a Hungarian historian, political scientist and diplomacy & security policy expert. He is assistant professor at the University of Szeged, where he teaches contemporary history and international relations. He is also Director of the Europa Varietas Institute (EUVI, Switzerland) where his focus is on European and African security issues. His prior teaching positions include the University of Pannonia (Veszprém, Hungary 2013–2015) and the National University of Public Service (Budapest, Hungary, 2015–2016). He is also a member of the CÉRIUM ROP (Réseau de Recherche sur les opérations de paix, University of Montreal, Canada).
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Dalit Lahav-Durst
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- translatorart historian
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Dalit L. Durst is an author, translator, curator and art historian of both Israeli and French nationalities. Former chief curator at the M.T. Abraham Foundation and head of the Cultural Exchange and Academic Department at the Hermitage Foundation Israel, she has curated exhibitions in Europe (Greece, Bulgaria, Croatia), dedicated to the sculpture of Edgar Degas. In December 2013 she co-curated the exhibition "Edgar Degas: Figures in Motion" at The State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia. In 2016 she curated an exhibition of Degas' 74 bronze sculptures at MGM Art Space in Macau. Lahav-Durst works with a broad range of artists. Fluent in multiple languages, she has co-authored and translated over 15 books.
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Léopold Fakambi
- Enrolled in New Sorbonne University - Paris III
- Studied in 1970
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- engineerresearch fellownutritionistagronomist
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Léopold Kocou Fakambi was a Beninese agronomist, engineer, nutritionist, and academic.
