Founder and current director of the European Institute for Studies on the Middle East and North Africa (EISMENA), he pays particular attention to Middle Eastern issues within the fields of the social sciences and geopolitics. He specializes in the five areas that make up the MENA region: the Arab, Turkish, Persian, Israeli, and Kurdish spheres. He has published several works, including his latest work, The Disintegration of the Middle East, has also just been released by Tallandier and focuses on the three major events that have impacted the region: 9/11, the Arab Spring, and October 7, 2023, or Iraq: A Century of Failure. From 1921 to the Present Day, published by Tallandier.