Sami Aoun

Sami Aoun is a Québécois political economist. He teaches at the School of policy applied of the Université of Sherbrooke.

Sami Aoun grew with the Lebanon in a climate of relative democratic prosperity and peaceful coexistence between Christians and Moslems. It receives a baccalaureat in Philosophie and Psychologie with the Lebanese Université and it supplements in 1977 at the same university a control on the Arab Rebirth. It obtains in 1980 a doctorate of State de Université Holy Spirit de Kaslik, published under the title “dimensions of the scientific conscience at the Arab elites”. He teaches then full-time at the Lebanese University and in private universities.

In 1990, Sami Aoun becomes part-time lecturer to the UQAM, at the University of Montreal and the University of Sherbrooke. It obtains in 2000 a post of professor at the University of Sherbrooke.

Sami Aoun undertakes research on the topicality international policy, the legitimacy of the political systems in the Middle East, the stakes and the political conflicts of this area, Islam between tradition and modernity, and the contemporary political history of the Arab world.

Professor Aoun is moreover member of the Advisory committee on the national security of Canada and director of the Group of research and study on safety in the Middle East (GRESMO) of the Chaire Raoul-Dandurand (UQAM). He is also analyst for the Télévision of Radio-Canada and is invited regularly by various media to comment on the topicality with the the Middle East.

Selective Bilbiography

Sami Aoun : Islam between tradition and modernity (Varied, coll " Entretiens" , 2007)
Today Islam. Fractures, integrism and modernity (Médiaspaul, 2007)
Reflections on the Palestinian State: dead end with the avenues of peace
To include/understand the terrorist act
Arab Darwinism
the Conflict of the ideologies in the Average Arab East

Quotations

“In a general way, we can affirm to be per hour of the truth in what is called Moslem space. This last is very diverse, pluralist, plural, pluriethnic and plurilinguistic. Indeed, Islam is a civilization which is superimposed on different orders, that it acts of companies, of tribes, clans, languages or of another thing.”
“the first dialectical one is that this Muslim world is in a cultural, political and civilisationnelle dead end, considering its incapacity to recover the tradition, Charia, the law and the glorious history of its past.”

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