Researcher at the CNRS and a historian of contemporary Shi’ism. She spent about ten years in the Middle East (Syria, the Lebanon) doing research. She is the author of Un réformisme chiite (Karthala, 2000) and she edited Les mondes chiites et l’Iran (Karthala, 2007) and Le Hezbollah, état des lieux (Actes Sud, 2008).
