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Research Director specializing in Political Philosophy and the Social Sciences at CRASC. He has led several major socio-historical research projects, notably serving as the Principal Investigator for studies on local business elites and their relationship with power, women's political representation in Algeria, and a project (2023–2026) focusing on charities and social work in colonial Oran (1900–1950). His work also includes collaborative research on university systems, social change, and the critical mapping of Algerian history and memory.

Karim Ouaras is a Professor of Sociolinguistics and Discourse analysis at the University of Oran 2. He is also the Associate-Director of the Centre d’Études Maghrébines en Algérie (CEMA),

Abu El Kassim Saadallah University of Algiers 2

Historian, researcher and Research Director at the CRASC (Oran) , ‘Socio-anthropology of History and Memory division, and deputy editor-in-chief of the journal Insaniyat.

Karim Ouaras is a Professor of Sociolinguistics and Discourse analysis at the University of Oran 2. He is also the Associate-Director of the Centre d’Études Maghrébines en Algérie (CEMA),

Abu El Kassim Saadallah University of Algiers 2

Historian, researcher and Research Director at the CRASC (Oran) , ‘Socio-anthropology of History and Memory division, and deputy editor-in-chief of the journal Insaniyat.

A Research Director at the Center for Research in Social and Cultural Anthropology (CRASC) in Oran, Algeria, he specializes in religious philosophy. He also served as director of the same center from 2017 to 2021, and as director of the National Institute for Research in Education under the Ministry of National Education from 2016 to 2017. Additionally, he worked as a research expert for a knowledge transfer project with the Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities from 2014 to 2015. His research focuses primarily on religious discourse, education, and citizenship in Algeria. He has authored around thirty scientific articles published in international and Algerian journals, as well as in collective volumes, and has participated in over eighty national and international conferences and seminars. He is a member and consultant for several national and international bodies, including the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA, Dakar, Senegal), the Arab Council for the Social Sciences, and the International Network for the Study of Arab Societies (Beirut, Lebanon).