Dr. Laurent Bonnefoy
Political Anthropology
Laurent Bonnefoy, born in
1980, holds a PhD in Political science from
Sciences Po Paris. His research focuses on contemporary religious
transnational relations in the Arabian Peninsula and more precisely on
the question and narratives of the ‘importation’ of salafi Islam in
Yemen. He is currently based in Sanaa doing more fieldwork for a
CNRS/ANR post-doctoral fellowship at the IREMAM (Aix-en-Provence) and
collaborates with the Centre Français d’Archéologie et de Sciences
Sociales de Sanaa (CEFAS). His publications include different articles
in English and French on political Yemen and on the issue of religious
identities.