André Bourgey (9 September 1936,

Saint-Étienne Saint-Étienne (; frp, Sant-Etiève; oc, Sant Estève, ) is a city and the prefecture of the Loire department in eastern-central France, in the Massif Central, southwest of Lyon in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Saint-Étienne is the ...

) is a French geographer, a specialist of the Arab world.

Biography

André Bourgey attended high school in Lyon and Algiers then graduated from

Lyon University The University of Lyon (french: Université de Lyon), located in Lyon and Saint-Étienne, France, is a center for higher education and research comprising 11 members and 24 associated institutions. The three main universities in this center are: C ...

. An agrégé in geography, he became a high school teacher for geography then an assistant in Lyon, before going to a post in Beirut (Centre d'étude et de recherche sur le Moyen-Orient contemporain - "Centre for Study and Research on Contemporary Middle East") where he sojourned from 1968 to 1983. From 1983 until he retired, he taught the geography of the Middle East and North Africa at the

Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales ( en, National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations), abbreviated as INALCO, is a French university specializing in the teaching of languages and cultures from the world. ...

(INALCO or "Langues'O"). He was president of the INALCO from 1993 to 2001, director of the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (Paris III University) from 1989 to 1992, a member of the Board of the

Arab World Institute The ''Institut du Monde Arabe'', French for Arab World Institute, abbreviated ''IMA'', is an organization founded in Paris in 1980 by France with 18 Arab countries to research and disseminate information about the Arab world and its cultural an ...

(from 1993) and that of the

Agence universitaire de la Francophonie The ''Agence universitaire de la Francophonie'' (AUF; en, Association of Francophone Universities) is a global network of French-speaking higher-education and research institutions. Founded in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1961, as the ''Assoc ...

from 1998 to 2001.

External links

André Bourgey
on data.bnf.fr
Publications
on Cairn
''Quelle réalité communautaire chiite au MO ?'' - André Bourgey

''Migrations et changements sociaux dans l'Orient arabe''

''Le barrage de Tabqa et l'aménagement du bassin de l'Euphrate en Syrie''
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