Antoine Sfeir

Antoine Sfeir
Antoine Sfeir
Born	November 25, 1948 Beirut, Lebanon
Occupation	journalist Professor
Nationality	France / Lebanon

Antoine Sfeir, (born 25 November 1948 in Beirut, Lebanon), is a Franco-Lebanese journalist and a professor.

He is the editor of the French journal Les Cahiers de l'Orient (Notebooks from the East, a quarterly devoted to the Near East), is the president of the Cerpo Centre d'études et de réflexions sur le Proche-Orient and a former professor of International relations at the school CELSA (Paris-Sorbonne University). He is now the president of the Ileri international relations school (Institut libre d'Etude des Relations internationales).^[1]

In his book "Tunisie, terre de paradoxes" published in 2006 he was accused of supporting the regime of Ben Ali in particular by denying its police and authoritarian character.^[2]

References

1. http://www.capcampus.com/nomination-618/nomination-a-l-ileri-antoine-sfeir-nouveau-president-a31925.htm
2. Blog The Arabist, http://www.arabist.net/blog/2006/9/20/intellectuals-and-dictatorships-the-case-of-antoine-sfeir.html