Lamia Mellal participated in the seminar "Counter-radicalization and living together: assessment, impact and perspectives" organized by Samir Akacha of Coconutwork. She presented how she deconstructed the category of "radicalized" as conceived by the state to document the impact of post-2015 public policies on the daily lives of Muslim students in France.

As part of her research on the impact of post-2015 public policies on the school experiences of Muslim students and their families, Lamia Mellal is currently conducting a participatory research with high school students in Marseille.

On 7 October 2022, Deradicalizing the City hosted its Advisory Board, that is composed of academics, artists and civil society figures.

Muslims in Europe, and more particularly in France, are subject to systematic surveillance procedures. For this reason, researchers and academics are sometimes viewed with suspicion. Some Muslim actors even perceive researchers as collaborators or informants of intelligence services. By Vincent Geisser, CNRS.

Femke Snelting and Seda Gürses’s lecture for Doing Research Otherwise

Marwan Mohammed (CNRS) - Who protects researchers from the state ? This was the meaning of an article I wrote in the Rebonds pages of the newspaper Libération on November 8, 2015. In the context of a post-attacks state of emergency, I questioned the conditions of possibility for research on such sensitive subjects as violent "radicalization" and terrorist involvement.