Habib Tawa

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Habib Tawa (born 31 October 1945) [1] in Tripoli, Lebanon is a French historian, journalist and mathematician.

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His doctoral thesis in history, under the joint supervision of the EHESS and the Paris-Sorbonne University, focused on contemporary Egypt, while his thesis in mathematics, argued at the University of Paris-Sud, was devoted to linear algebra.[ citation needed ] Thereafter, he turned his research and publications on the history of religion (Samaritans, Yezidis  [ fr ] [2] etc.), on contemporary Middle East and Central and East Asia. He is known to be a great connoisseur on issues related to the Syrian-Lebanese emigration in Egypt that occurred from the middle of the 19th. [3]

In 2001 he was entrusted the responsibility of chronicling geopolitics in the monthly Afrique-Asie. [4]

Habib Tawa is secretary to several scientific societies (Société d'études samaritaines 1995–2008, Société des amis des manuscrits et études karaïtes since 1995) and member of the Société Asiatique [5] and the Société mathématique de France.

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  1. Tawa, Habib. "BnF Catalogue général". catalogue.bnf.fr.
  2. "Read online" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-01-14. Retrieved 2016-10-14.
  3. Cf. Article on « Alexandrie à Beyrouth, d'une société multiculturelle à une société multiconfessionnelle », in Alexandrie et la Méditerranée : entre histoire et mémoire
  4. Formerly entitled Le Nouvel Afrique-Asie.
  5. "Journal asiatique". Société asiatique. 20 November 1994 via Google Books.
  6. Colloque intitulé Traces de l'autre: mythes de l'antiquité et peuples du livre dans la construction des nations méditerranéennes, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, le 19-21 avril 2003.
  7. "Le Nouvel Afrique Asie". Société d'éditions Afrasial. 20 November 2018 via Google Books.
  8. "Cultures et développement". Université catholique de Louvain. 20 November 1983 via Google Books.
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