Farhad Khosrokhavar

Franco-Iranian sociologist, director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS). His research interests include the sociology of contemporary Iran and the social and anthropological problems of Islam in France. Last published work: La Radicalisation, éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, coll “Interventions”, 2014.

A Censured Debate Farhad Khosrokhavar · November 2020 On 29 October 2020, a journalist from Politico got in touch with me to ask me to do an article on secularism and the debate around it in English. The next day I sent her an article respecting the limited number of words she had set for me. On October 31, she let me know that the article had (…)
The Dangerous Religion of Secularism Farhad Khosrokhavar · November 2020 Another string of jihadist attacks has shaken France. The most recent, at a church in Nice, left three people dead, only two weeks after a teacher was beheaded on the outskirts of Paris after he displayed cartoons of the prophet Mohammed in his classroom. Why is France targeted, over and over (…)