Oasis - Vincent Battesti

10/10/2024

How oases work

Chap. (in French) in the edited book: Déserts, Vivre en milieu extrême, 2024

08/10/2024

Deserts. Living in an Extreme Environment

Vincent Battesti, Maël Crépy, Anthony Herrel, Aude Lalis & Denis Larpin (dirs), 2024 — Déserts. Vivre en milieu extrême, Paris, Muséum (…)

08/10/2024

Deserts. Living in an Extreme Environment

Edited book in French. Oct. 2024

13/08/2024

Book in progress: The living heritage of an undervalued agrobiodiversity : an analytical survey of practices and categorization of date palms in al-‘Ulā oasis, Saudi Arabia

Book of al-‘Ulā DPA project, work in progress.

13/08/2024

The living heritage of an undervalued agrobiodiversity: an analytical survey of practices and categorization of date palms in al-‘Ulā oasis, Saudi Arabia

Book of al-‘Ulā DPA project, work in progress.

13/08/2024

Digging deeper into the impacts of different soil water systems on the date palm root architecture and associated fungal communities

Art. (in English) in progress

13/08/2024

Humans in deserts, Deserts Exhibition

In preparation: exhibition in Paris, from spring 2025

02/07/2024

Research work on Djanet

Articles and conferences.

24/01/2024

Oasis ways of life

Lecture (in French) given for the events series “Tête à tête avec un chercheur”, in the Galerie de l’Homme, at Musée de l’Homme, 24 January 2024, (…)

18/12/2023

Strontium isotope evidence for Pre-Islamic cotton cultivation in Arabia

New! Art. in English. In Frontiers in Earth Science journal.

05/12/2023

Fourth-year Report—Dec. 2023. Anthropological survey of al-‘Ulā community and its oasis system

Annual Report 2023 — Unveiling al-‘Ulā: Deepening Understanding of Anthropological Dynamics

07/11/2023

Emergence and evolution of date palm cultivation in Northwestern Arabia

Lecture (in English) given for the international conference “Human-Environment Interactions in Ancient Arabia” (HEIAA), at the University of (…)

07/11/2023

Emergence and evolution of date palm cultivation in Northwestern Arabia

Lecture (in English) given for the international conference “Human-Environment Interactions in Ancient Arabia” (HEIAA), at the University of (…)

01/11/2023

Job offer at the CNRS: Technician for heritage collections at the Muséum national d’histoire naturelle

Position starting: February 1, 2024. Application deadline: Nov. 23, 2023.

13/10/2023

Perceptions and practices of the environment, oasis and desert contrasts (Sahara and Arabia)

Art. in French. submitted to… Parcours anthropologiques journal.

01/10/2023

The oasis of al-‘Ulā between two waves of change

Ed. book of al-‘Ulā AS project, work in progress.

14/09/2023

Comparison of the agricultural area of Muġayrā’ (al-‘Ulā, KSA) between 1972, 1986 and 2023

Testing the JuxtaposeJS slider tool.

01/07/2023

Bedouins and Sedentaries today in al-‘Ulā (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia): al-diyār and al-Dīra in the rear-view mirror

Art. (in English) in Arabian Humanities journal.

01/07/2023

Bédouins et Sédentaires aujourd’hui à al-‘Ulā (Royaume d’Arabie saoudite), al-diyār et al-Dīra dans le rétroviseur

Art. in French in Arabian Humanities in 2023, Vincent Battesti & Léo Marty

01/07/2023

Publication of the first anthropological and social study on al-‘Ulā

Bedouins and Sedentaries today in al-‘Ulâ (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia): al-diyâr and al-Dîra in the rear-view mirror | Art. in English in Arabian (…)

15/05/2023

Working list of named types of date palms cultivated in al-‘Ulā oasis (KSA)

Research report 2023 (in English).

17/04/2023

Comparison of al-‘Ulā oasis valley (KSA) between 1965 and 2023

Testing the JuxtaposeJS slider tool.

02/01/2023

Position Agricultural Engineer (M/F): 6 months at al-‘Ulā in Saudi Arabia

Start date: February 1, 2023. Application deadline: January 23, 2023.

01/01/2023

What lies behind a fruit crop variety name? A case study of the barnī date palm from al-‘Ulā oasis, Saudi Arabia

New ! Art. in Plants, People, Planet journal, vol. 5 (1), Jan. 2023, p. 82-97

09/12/2022

Third-year Report—Dec. 2022. Anthropological survey of al-‘Ulā community and its oasis system

Annual Report 2022

07/11/2022

Investigating the date palms of a three thousand year old oasis

Press review

15/10/2022

What lies behind fruit crops variety names? The date palm as a case study

Lecture (in English) with Muriel Gros-Balthazard given for the EUNOPS (European Network of Palm Scientists) Conference, October 2022, Geneva (…)

30/09/2022

Oasis palm groves, ecosystems designed by humans

Chap. (in French) in La Terre, le vivant, les humains, Petites et grandes découvertes de l’histoire naturelle edited by Jean-Denis Vigne & (…)

23/06/2022

Perceptions and practices of its environment, contrasted in the oases and in the desert (Sahara, Arabia)

Lecture (in French/English) given for the workshop “The contour of the senses. Subjectivities, representations and sensitive experience of (…)

23/05/2022

Project participants to al-‘Ulā AS Project

Addition and convergence of scientific expertise for a research on al-’Ulā oasis in Saudi Arabia.

13/03/2022

On the field for al-‘Ulā-AS: Dr. Joëlle Brochier-Puig

March 2022 Social geography of water and irrigation in al-‘Ulā

03/03/2022

Postdoctoral contract offer: Ecological knowledge and know-how of communities in al-‘Ulā oasis region, Saudi Arabia

Effective date: April 1st, 2022. Application deadline: March 24th, 2022 Date passed, but if interested, contact me.

31/01/2022

The oasis model across the Sahara and the Near East

Lecture (in French) given for the UTL conferences, Université du temps-libre, of Marennes-Oléron, January 31th 2022, Saint-Pierre d’Oléron, île (…)

20/10/2021

Cultivate your anthropology in the field of an enhanced ethnoecology

HDR | Habilitation à diriger des recherches - Paris, 2021.

10/10/2021

A Timelapse Landsat of al-‘Ulā 1985-2020

The changes in exploiting the environment in the region of al-‘Ulā, KSA

30/09/2021

Second-year Report—Sept. 2021. Anthropological survey of al-‘Ulā community and its oasis system

Annual Report 2021

12/02/2021

Thinking oasis history from the present: date palm agrobiodiversity and Saharan insularities

Lecture (in French) given for the research seminar “Saharan worlds: sources, spaces, societies (8th-19th century)”, February 12th 2021, IISMM, (…)

02/02/2021

Is Barnī, a date palm cultivated in the oasis of al-‘Ulā, a true-to-type cultivar or an ethnovariety? Arguments from ethnographic and genetic data

Report (2021) (in English)

05/11/2020

The Mediterranean oases

Art. [in French] On the website of INSU (Institut national des sciences de l’Univers, CNRS), Les oasis méditerranéennes, Nov. 5, 2020

30/09/2020

First-year Report—Sept. 2020. Anthropological survey of al-‘Ulā community and its oasis system

Annual Report 2020

02/09/2020

On the necessity of combining ethnobotany and genetics to assess agrobiodiversity and its evolution in crops: a case study on date palms ({Phoenix dactylifera} L.) in Siwa Oasis, Egypt

Art. (in English): New: published Sept. 2020 Muriel Gros-Balthazard* & Vincent Battesti* et al.. published in Evolutionary Applications (…)

02/08/2020

Tomatoes in the heart of the Sahara

Interview (in French) by Christel Trinquier, Ouest-France, 2 August 2020.

15/05/2020

Anthropological issues of the communities of al-‘Ulā oasis: Scientific and synthesis note

Report: — New —

15/05/2020

Date palm genetic and diversity: The case of al-‘Ulā oasis

Research Report 2020.

05/12/2019

PhD/ CNRS Doctoral contract offer: Origins and diversity of the Date Palm in al-‘Ulā Oasis, Saudi Arabia: a multidisciplinary approach combining Genomics, Ethnobotany and Archaeobiology

Effective date: February 1st, 2020. Application deadline: January 13th, 2020

22/10/2019

A sound from Siwa in Egypt - with RFI

Sound recorded in the oasis of Siwa (Egypt) broadcast on RFI “Écouter le monde”: Correspondances sonores (1/5)

22/10/2019

Dates

Chap. (in French) for the exhibition catalogue Christophe Lavelle & Marie Merlin (dirs), Je mange donc je suis. Petit dictionnaire curieux de (…)

18/09/2019

Doctoral contract offer: Functioning of an oasis community in Saudi Arabia and its relationship to the environment: al-‘Ulā oasis

Effective date: November 1, 2019. Application deadline: October 9, 2019

11/06/2019

Mapping and Interpreting Bibliographic Knowledge, The Oasis of al-‘Ulā in Saudi Arabia

Master thesis 1st year, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, by Doria Bellache (dir. Vincent Battesti)

03/06/2019

Domestication of date palms in Siwa oasis and across the Middle East and North Africa: articulate the scales of ethnography and domestication over the long term

Poster (in English) made for the International Symposium Harlan III, from June 3rd to 7th 2019, Montpellier SupAgro, Montpellier (France).

16/05/2019

Oases, networks nodes

Chap. (in French) for the exhibition catalogue S. Caratini, C. Grémont, C. Lesourd & O. Schinz (dirs), Sahara, mondes connectés, Paris, (…)

02/05/2019

Photographs taken during a first fieldwork reconnaissance mission in al-‘Ulā (KSA). April 2019

See al-‘Ulā oasis, Saudi Arabia.

10/10/2018

What is the use of a geneticist to an anthropologist, and vice versa: date palms in the Sahara

Lecture (in French) given for the Master conference « Agrobiodiversité » (AE/AST - UE 39 M2, coord. by Serge Bahuchet and François Léger), October (…)

22/09/2018

Date palms of the Siwa oasis and the Saharan island network: Status of tested hypotheses

Lecture (in French) given during the WG2 Insularities workshop (BioDivMeX), on 22 September 2018 in the Kerkennah Islands (Tunisia).

12/07/2018

The possibilities of an island: Oasian insularities in the Sahara and Genesis of oases

Chap. (in French) for the book G. Tallet & T. Sauzeau (eds.), Mer et désert de l’Antiquité à nos jours, Approches croisées, Presses (…)

20/06/2018

Date palm agrobiodiversity (Phoenix dactylifera L.) in Siwa oasis, Egypt: combining ethnography, morphometry, and genetics

Art. (in English): Vincent Battesti* & Muriel Gros-Balthazard*, Clémence Ogéron, Sarah Ivorra, Jean-Frédéric Terral, Claire Newton, 2018 — « (…)

07/11/2017

What are the palm trees of the Siwa oasis? Dialogue local and learned responses (morphometry, anthropology, and genetics)

Lecture given (in French) with Muriel Gros-Balthazard as part of the GDR Mosaïque Closing Days, on 7 November 2017, 02:30 pm-3:00 pm, Montpellier (…)

13/07/2017

The Discovery of Wild Date Palms in Oman Reveals a Complex Domestication History Involving Centers in the Middle East and Africa

Art. (in English), Gros-Balthazard, Muriel, et al., 2017 — « The Discovery of Wild Date Palms in Oman Reveals a Complex Domestication History (…)

19/01/2017

Questions raised in ethnoecology? Oasis illustrations

Lecture (in French) given for the seminar “Anthropologie générale — À l’interface des sciences sociales et des sciences naturelles” coord. by (…)

17/10/2016

To shun the sound and the fury: ambiances in the palm groves gardens of Siwa Oasis (Egypt)

Lecture given (in French) in the International Conference: “Quelles ambiances urbaines dans les oasis du sud de la Méditerranée?” (Programme (…)

22/06/2016

Les métiers du Muséum: Ethnoécologue

The Muséum’s jobs: Ethnoecologist Lecture (in French) given for the meetings “Les métiers du Muséum” at the Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, (…)

26/12/2015

CRISIS: ANR Program

Member of the CRISIS Project Team

17/12/2015

al-Dakhla Oasis

OASIS, (Géog. anc.) ville & desert de l’Egypte, aux confins de la Lybie. Il y avoit deux villes nommées Oasis, & que l’on distinguoit par (…)

17/12/2015

al-Kharga Oasis

OASIS, (Géog. anc.) ville & desert de l’Egypte, aux confins de la Lybie. Il y avoit deux villes nommées Oasis, & que l’on distinguoit par (…)

02/10/2015

BioDivMeX Prospective Workshop/ Atelier de prospective BioDivMeX

Conf. (in French & English), participation to the BioDivMeX Prospective Workshop at the Observatoire de Haute Provence (OHP), from Sept. 29th (…)

30/06/2015

Ethnoecology of pollination and pollinators: Knowledge and practice in three societies

Art. (in English) published in Revue d’ethnoécologie journal (2015), vol. 7 with Marie Roué, Nicolas Césard, and Romain Simenel

20/05/2015

Resources and Appropriations: Back to the Jerid Oases (Tunisia) after the Revolution

Art. (in English) translated from an art. published in French in Études rurales (2013)

06/04/2015

Coll. vbat of objects from the Siwa Oasis

Objects: collection vbat — Vincent Battesti, CNRS-Musée de l’Homme Photographies: Jean-Christophe Domenech, Musée de l’Homme, Muséum national (…)

06/01/2015

Categorization of the date palm agrobiodiversity in the oasis of Siwa (Libyan Desert, Egypt): the olive tree categorization should it or can it be similar?

Lecture (in French) given to the Annual Meeting of the GDR Mosaïque at the Institut des Sciences de la Communication of the CNRS, Jan. 6th 2015, (…)

09/10/2014

Why geneticists make mistakes. Talking about the date palms of Siwa oasis (Libyan desert, Egypt)

Lecture (in French) given for the Transversal Axis seminar « Catégories, constructions et hybridations des savoirs » (Categories, constructions (…)

05/05/2014

What does domestication mean for a Saharan oasis date palm?

Art. (in English) in progress

13/02/2014

Resources and appropriations: Return, after the revolution, to the oases of Jerid (Tunisia)

Art. (in French) in Études rurales in 2013. Tarik Dahou, Mohamed Elloumi & François Molle (eds.), EHESS.

13/02/2014

To categorize date palms with no gene and embarrassment in Siwa, oasis of the Libyan Desert

Lecture (in French) given to the seminar Ethnobotanique(s): théories et pratiques, Master “Évolution, patrimoine naturel et sociétés” (EDTS), (…)

11/02/2014

Siwa, Oasis of the Libyan Desert: The secret life of the gardens and their palm trees

Lecture (in French) given to Conférences de La Rahla, Amicale des Sahariens, Paris, Feb. 11th 2014, 7pm

08/01/2014

The Date Palm: Origin and Cultivation in the Middle East and in Egypt

Journal issue (in English and French) edited with Margareta Tengberg, and Claire Newton, Revue d’ethnoécologie, “The Date Palm: Origin and (…)

07/01/2014

The agrobiodiversity of the Date Palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) in Siwa Oasis (Egypt): between what is said, written, and forgotten

Art. (in French) in Revue d’ethnoécologie - vol. 4, 2013, “The Date Palm : Origin and Cultivation in the Middle East and in Egypt” [Siwa #0]

07/01/2014

“The unrivalled tree”. Date palms and palm groves in the Middle East and Egypt, from Prehistory to the present day

Art. (in French) in Revue d’ethnoécologie - vol. 4, 2013 “The Date Palm : Origin and Cultivation in the Middle East and in Egypt”

08/11/2013

The possibilities of an island: Oasian insularities in the Sahara

Lecture (in French) given at the International symposium “Sea and Desert from Antiquity to the Modern Era: Intersecting Perspectives” Limoges, (…)

30/05/2013

TV Broadcast “C’est pas sorcier” — Oasis: les champs du désert

Scientific consultation for popular science TV broadcast.

15/03/2013

Saharan Oasis Gardens: The Beautiful as Sensual Contentment and the Landscape from Below

Lecture given for the seminar “Antropological approaches to landscape”, in the course “Anthropology of Nature” of Philippe Descola, at the Collège (…)

17/12/2012

Scans of children drawings from Siwa oasis on their environment

Scans’ Collection in Open Access on MediHal… – RSS feed: https://media.hal.science/rss.php?r... – Web page: https://media.hal.science/index.php..

13/12/2012

The agrobiodiversity of the date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) in Siwa, an oasis of the Libyan Desert: what is said, written and forgotten

Lecture given at the workshop “Ecological and Anthropological Approaches to Agrobiodiversity and Food systems” from December 6th to 7th 2012 at (…)

16/10/2012

Resource mobilization and models mobilization: a tragic agricultural coexistence in oases of the Jerid (Tunisia)?

Lecture given for the École-chercheurs (researchers-school) “Terroirs et patrimoines ruraux méditerranéens au XXIe siècle: entre idéologie, (…)

17/04/2012

Oasis, gardens in the desert

Lecture given for the exhibition “Les territoires de l’eau, irrigation et partage de l’eau en Méditerranée”  from Feb. 7th to July 13th 2012 at (…)

14/02/2012

The territories of the water, irrigation and water sharing in the Mediterranean

Oases. Exhibition “The territories of the water, irrigation and water sharing in the Mediterranean” Original title: • Oasis. Exposition “Les (…)

10/01/2012

The Saharan oasis put to the test of its Landscape: The Jerid

Chapter (in English) published in Virginie Lefebvre, with Aziza Chaouni (eds.), Desert Tourism: tracing the fragile edges of development, (…)

22/12/2011

The Power of a Disappearance: Water in the Jerid region of Tunisia

Chapter (in English) published in B. R. Johnston & all. (eds.), Water, Cultural Diversity & Global Environmental Change: Emerging Trends, (…)

02/12/2011

In North Africa and the Middle East, To build, to dream and to anticipate his nature ... in order to escape the environment

Seminar Utopias of Nature, Nature of Utopias – MNHN, 2011

28/11/2011

Ownership of resources: a Tunisian update, Back to the oases of the Jerid in 2011

Lecture given at the conference SHS- Méditerranée: “Ownership of natural and heritage resources: Competitions and rights of access in the (…)

18/01/2011

Thirsty or drowned, the strange destinies of hydraulic societies of North African oases (Jerid oases in Tunisia and Siwa oasis in Egypt)

[bg jaune]Cancelled[/bg jaune] Out of Water: Sustaining Development in Arid Climates, a conference taking place on April 1 & 2, 2011, at the (…)

22/12/2009

From Siwa to Cairo, the making of heritage feeds from the Others’ desire

Article (in French) published in Égypte/Monde arabe n°5-6, 2009: Pratiques du patrimoine en Égypte et au Soudan. Issue edited by Omnia Aboukorah, (…)

23/06/2009

Tourism in oasis, Natural and cultural mirages of an encounter?

Art. (in French) in Cahier d’études africaines (2009, éditions de l’EHESS, Paris) Numéro “Tourismes. La quête de soi par la pratique des autres” (…)

18/03/2009

A Garden in the Desert

Lecture given at the Médiathèque François Mitterrand in Argentan (Basse-Normandie) and intervention also at the Secondary school Jean Rostand, (…)

12/02/2009

The reinvention of ruin when you do not appreciate the landscape, and other spatial considerations in the Arab world

Lecture given at the École nationale supérieure du paysage (ENSP) in Versailles (France), February 11st, 2009.

21/11/2008

Overview: The Jerid, governorate of Tozeur

The governorate of Tozeur (ولاية توزر), created on 21 June 1956, is one of Tunisia’s 24 governorates. It is located in the south-west of the (…)

07/08/2008

Earthen architectures. The example of Siwa

Architectures de terre, l’exemple de Siwa Chapter (in French) in the exhibition catalogue “Berbères, de rives en rêves” (2008) at the abbey of (…)

25/05/2008

Presentation of my Research project

Research Project: Production of natures in North Africa and the Middle East. The oasis societies as laboratory, Marseille and Paris, March and May (…)

21/05/2008

Opening of the exhibition Berbères, de rives en rêves (Berbers, from shores to dreams)

Wednesday, May 21st at 5 pm, Abbey of Daoulas

16/05/2008

Berbères, de rives en rêves

• Architectures berbères de terre (Berber earthen architectures). Exhibition “Berbères, de rives en rêves” (Berbers, from shores to dreams) , May (…)

11/04/2008

Socioecological resources: mobilization of natural, ideal and practical resources in urban garden or oasis (Tunisia/ Egypt)

Lecture given at the GREMMO in Lyon (France), seminar “Espaces, pouvoirs et mobilisations sociales dans le monde arabe”, April 2008

13/03/2008

Short definition of the oasis

A short definition of the “oasis”, I wrote for an Encyclopedia.

25/02/2008

Candidate for a position at IRD

For a position as 2nd class researcher.

28/11/2007

Living nature: a look of children

• “A Berber oasis, Siwa”/ “The oasis, or the nature in a garden” (Une oasis berbérophone, Siwa/ L’oasis, ou la nature dans un jardin). Author of a (…)

08/10/2007

Gardens of the nature: Berber oasis of Siwa in Egypt

Lecture given at the Musée de l’Homme (Paris) for the exhibition “Natures vivantes”.

11/05/2007

Fieldworks and ethnology

All the research fieldworks on the zone of North Africa (the Maghreb) and the Middle East: fieldworks in oasis and urban fieldworks. On a (…)

30/04/2007

Oasis (among other things)

Contributions to Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia

05/04/2007

Oases as Socio-ecological Landscapes, The Jerid as an Example

Lecture given at Harvard GSD for the conference “Desert Tourism: delineating the fragile edge of development”, Cambridge, USA.

29/01/2007

“Why should I go to see from above things I already know from below?”

Article (in French) in the volume 3/3rd serie of Egypte/Monde arabe, 2006. Original title: “Pourquoi j’irais voir d’en haut ce que je connais déjà (…)

04/10/2006

Dwelling with feet of clay, Trials and tribulations of construction materials and techniques in Siwa (Egypt)

Art. (in French) Journal des Africanistes (2006). Original title: De l’habitation aux pieds d’argile, Les vicissitudes des matériaux et techniques (…)

19/07/2006

The space of a nature: Ethnoecology of the oasis of Siwa (Egypt) [temporary title]

Book (in French) in progress…

14/06/2006

To understand the use of spaces in the oasis of Siwa

09/06/2006

Anthropology of gardens: the gardens of oasis

Lecture given at the seminar Anthropologie des jardins: Jardins historiques, Patrimoine, Paysages, École d’architecture de Versailles, June 2006.

03/06/2006

Small biblio in pictures on Siwa

Some covers of works related to Siwa

03/06/2006

Workshop in Siwa: children’s drawings on nature

Results (in progress) of the experiment of drawings carried out with the children of Siwa

03/06/2006

Biodiversity & agrobiodiversity in Siwa oasis

There are several ways to focus on the biodiversity of a place and I’ve tried several in this fieldwork of Siwa oasis. The first is to identify (…)

03/06/2006

Berber children of Siwa (Egypt) draw their oasis.

Part of an exhibition, Musée de l’Homme (Paris) Exhibition project in the Musée de l’Homme in Paris in 2007/2008. The nature drawn by the children (…)

02/05/2006

Oases gardens

Lecture given at Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Paris, May 2006.

24/02/2006

Project of exhibition: Nature vivante (Living Nature)

The children of the world draw their nature (in Siwa too)

12/02/2006

Researches in the oasis of Siwa

Objectives

09/02/2006

Ambiances of the places: images and sounds of Siwa

In progress.

03/09/2005

The covers you missed

It could have been, but it was not: Proposed titles and covers for the book Jardins au désert (Gardens in the desert, Evolution of oasis (…)

28/08/2005

Already here... pieces of sound ambiances in Siwa.

Already here, sounds of other places.

09/08/2005

The Power of Disappearance, Water and the Jerid in Tunisia

Unpublished chap. of A History of Water, The World of Water: Volume III.

21/06/2005

Gardens in the desert, Evolution of oasis practices and knowledge, Jerid, Tunisia

Vincent Battesti (2005), Jardins au désert, Évolution des pratiques et savoirs oasiens, Jérid tunisien Book (in French) published by Éditions IRD, (…)

23/05/2005

Oasian natures in North Africa

Relationships of oases populations with their environment in North Africa

19/04/2005

Patrimonialization in Siwa: the architecture

In progress.

17/04/2005

Satellite pictures

Satellite images of oasian regions

05/04/2005

Siwi botanical vocabulary: cultivated plants in Siwa

This vocabulary in Jlan n Isiwan (language of Siwan people) is in progress. It presents links between words in French and in Siwi (and in Latin (…)

02/04/2005

“Environment needs clay!”, Evolutions of the habitat in the oasis of Siwa

Lecture given at the Conference Habitat, habitation et urbanisme en Corse et en Méditerranée, Calvi, April 2005.

31/08/2004

Ecological and social geneses of oasis agriculture

Art. refused by World Archaeology

04/05/2004

Anthropological investigations in Siwa: some data

Lecture given at the Weekly Seminar in the CEDEJ, May 2004, Cairo, Egypt.

31/01/2003

Smell Sui Generis: Subterfuge in the Domestication of the Date Palm (Tassili n’Ajjer, Algeria)

Odeur sui generis, Le subterfuge dans la domestication du palmier dattier (Tassili n’Ajjer, Algérie) Art.(in French) in Anthropozoologica journal

16/01/2003

The oases of the Sahara: socio-natural constructions

Lecture given at the CFCC in Héliopolis (Egypt), Jan. 16th, 2003.

25/12/2002

The relationship to the environment in two regions of oases in Tunisia: Jerid and Nefzaoua

Art. (in French) in progress ... [temporary title]

21/11/2002

Subterfuge in the Domestication of the Date Palm (Tassili n’Ajjer, Algeria)

Lecture given at the Conference Animal Domestications: social and symbolic dimensions, Maison de l’Orient méditerranéen, Lyon, 2002

08/09/2002

The inventions of the Arabic-Muslim gardening natures

Lecture given at the Conference WOCMES, Sept. 2002, Mainz, Germany.

31/05/2002

The oasis gardens: natures in construction

Chap. Ethnohistoire des jardins - abandon of the project by its scientific editor.

07/02/2002

The oasis gardens: Natures in construction

Lecture given at the Seminar Ethnohistoire des jardins, MHHN, Paris, 2002.

31/08/2001

The oases of Jerid, natural and ideal resources

Les oasis du Jérid, des ressources naturelles et idéelles Chap. (in French) in Environnement et sociétés rurales en mutation, Approches (…)

10/08/2001

The Power of Disappearance, Water and Jerid in Tunisia

Lecture given at the Conference of IWHA The Role of Water in History and Development,10th-12th Aug. 2001, Bergen, Norway.

31/10/2000

Les relations équivoques, approches circonspectes pour une socioécologie des oasis sahariennes

French abstract of the Doctorate Thesis, Saharan Studies Association Newsletter

25/10/2000

The oases’ natures of Jerid (Tunisia), some resources also conceptual

Lecture given at the Conference MEDENPOP 2000, October 25th-28th, 2000, Jerba (Tunisia).

31/08/2000

The temporal scales in the Jerid oases (Tunisia)

Les échelles temporelles des oasis du Jérid tunisien Art. (in French) in Anthropos journal

31/05/1999

The equivocal relations and the oases

Les relations équivoques et les oasis Art.(in French) in Sécheresse, Science et changements planétaires journal

30/11/1998

The sense of the places, Spaces and pratices in the palm groves of the Jerid (Southwest Tunisia)

Le sens des lieux, Espaces et pratiques dans les palmeraies du Jérid (Sud-ouest tunisien) Art. (in French) in JATBA, revue d’ethnobiologie journal

28/09/1998

The equivocal relations, Circumspect approaches for a socio-ecology of Saharan oases.

Doctorate Thesis. (PhD) - Paris, 1998.

16/11/1996

The conception of the labour and the appreciation of the landscape in the Saharan oases

Lecture given at Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, Nov. 1996.

20/09/1996

The oases of Jerid: permanent revolutions?

Les oasis du Jérid: des révolutions permanentes? Book/report (in French) published by Cirad, Montpellier, 1997.

30/11/1995

ِEthnobotanical approach of a Saharan Oasis: Djanet (Algeria)

Main DEA thesis (Social Sciences) - Paris, 1993.