Our Team

Samia Ait Ali Yahia

Maître de Conférences at the Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi-Ouzou

Specialist in Libyan epigraphy of Mauretania Caesariensis

Lhoucine Ait Bahcine

Former researcher of the Centre d'études anthropologiques et sociologiques of the Institut royal de la culture amazighe au Maroc in Rabat and member of the Association marocaine de recherche et d'échanges culturels

Specialist in toponymy of Mauretania Tingitana

Vermondo Brugnatelli

Associate Professor at the University of Milano-Bicocca

Specialist in Eastern Amazigh dialects and in diachronic study and edition of medieval Ibadi texts from Jerba, Nafusa and Zwara

Mansour Ghaki

Directeur de recherches at the Institut national du Patrimoine of Tunisia and Associate Professor at the University of Naples « l'Orientale »

Specialist in Eastern Libyan (or Numidian) epigraphy

Maarten Kossmann

Professor of Berber Studies at Leiden University Centre for Linguistics

Specialist in Amazigh historical-comparative linguistics, in Amazigh-Hausa and Amazigh-Arabic linguistic contacts and in synchronic studies of Figuig, Rif, Tashelhit, Tuareg and Ghadames dialects

Grigori Lazarev

Former Professor at the Institut de Sociologie of Rabat and founder of the Association de Recherche Al Idrissi

Specialist in geohistory, anthropology and historical sociology of Northern African populations in Byzantine and medieval periods

Ahmed M'Charek

Emeritus Professor at Tunis University

Specialist in the archaeology of Mauri settlements of Zeugitana, Byzacena and Numidia in transition between antiquity and middle ages

Kamal Naït-Zerrad

Professeur des Universités at the Centre de Recherche Berbère of the INALCO and director of the research unit LACNAD in Paris

Specialist in Amazigh comparative lexicography, kabyle and Arabic philological sources of medieval Amazigh

Marijn van Putten

Visiting scholar at the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton

Specialist in Awjila dialect and Amazigh historical-comparative linguistics

Lameen Souag

CR1 researcher at the LACITO laboratory of the CNRS in France

Specialist in Amazigh historical-comparative linguistics and in contacts between Amazigh and the languages spoken in the oases of the Sahara and in the Sahel

Stefano Struffolino

Teaching assistant at the chair of Greek history of the Università "G. D'Annunzio" Chieti-Pescara / Université Télématique Pegaso

Epigraphist, archaeologist and ancient historian, specialist in toponymic studies based on epigraphic and papyrological documents of Western Egypt, Cyranaica and Libyan oases

Vincent Zarini

Professeur des Universités in Latin Literature of Late Antiquity at the Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne and director of the Institut d'études augustiniennes

Specialist in Latin authors of Roman, Vandal and Byzantine Africa, particularly Corippus and African Christian Latin authors

Carles Múrcia

Professor of Latin Philology at the Universitat de Barcelona

Specialist in Latin and Greek literary and epigraphic sources from North Africa and in Amazigh historical-comparative linguistics