About

Stéphane Lacroix is an associate professor of political science at Sciences Po Paris (France), a senior researcher at Sciences Po’s Centre de Recherches Internationales (CERI) and the co-director of Sciences Po’s Chair for the study of religion. He is currently on sabbatical as visiting professor at Universitas Islam Internasional Indonesia (UIII). He is the author of “Awakening Islam: The Politics of Religious Dissent in Contemporary Saudi Arabia” (Harvard University Press, 2011), “Saudi Arabia in Transition: Insights on Social, Political, Economic and Religious Change” (Cambridge University Press, 2015, with B.Haykel and T. Hegghammer), “Egypt’s Revolutions: Politics, Religion, Social Movements” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, with B. Rougier), and “Revisiting the Arab Uprisings: The Politics of a Revolutionary Moment” (Oxford University Press, 2018, with J.-P. Filiu). His most recent book, “Twilight of the Saints: The History and Politics of Salafism in Contemporary Egypt”, will come out with Columbia University Press on 5 August 2025