Stephane LaCroix

Stéphane Lacroix is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Sciences Po, Paris and a research fellow at the Centre d'Études et de Recherches Internationales. Since 2010, he has also been an associate researcher at the Centre d'Études et de Documentation Economiques, Juridiques et Sociales, in Cairo. He is the author of Awakening Islam: The Politics of Religious Dissent in Contemporary Saudi Arabia (2011), named book of the year in 2011 on Foreign Policy's Middle East Channel. He also co...See more

Stéphane Lacroix is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Sciences Po, Paris and a research fellow at the Centre d'Études et de Recherches Internationales. Since 2010, he has also been an associate researcher at the Centre d'Études et de Documentation Economiques, Juridiques et Sociales, in Cairo. He is the author of Awakening Islam: The Politics of Religious Dissent in Contemporary Saudi Arabia (2011), named book of the year in 2011 on Foreign Policy's Middle East Channel. He also co-authored Al-Qaida in its Own Words (2008) and The Meccan Rebellion (2011). His articles have appeared in journals such as the Middle East Journal and the International Journal of Middle East Studies. See less