German Institute for Global and Area Studies | Leibniz-Institut für Globale und Regionale Studien

Massensen Cherbi

Associate

Short CV

Since 09/2024: Associate at the GIGA Institute for Middle East Studies
Fellow of the Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM) – 2023/2026; Université de Tunis
Temporary teaching assistant in public law (LRU) – Université Le Havre Normandie (2022-2023)
Temporary teaching and research assistant in public law (ATER) – Sciences Po Grenoble (2021-2022)
Temporary teaching and research assistant in public law (ATER) – Sciences Po Toulouse (2018-2019)
Adjunct professor (vacataire) – École Supérieure Algérienne des Affaires (2019-2021) – INSEEC Business School (2018-2019) – Sciences Po (2020-2023) – Télécom SudParis (2015-2016) – Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (2017-2018 & 2019-2021) – Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas (2017-2018) – Université Paris X Nanterre (2017-2018 & 2021-2022) – Université Paris XII Paris-Est-Créteil (2016-2017) – Université de Picardie Jules Verne (2022-2023)

Current Research

Nonconstitutionalist constitutions & authoritarianism
Democratization, claims & experiences
Civil-military relations in constitutional law
Human rights, rule of law & rule by law
State religion, secularism & status of women
Cultural pluralism

Countries and Regions

Algeria
Maghreb

Research Programmes

Accountability and Participation

Massensen Cherbi

Associate

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Journal of North African Studies | 05/2025

Ferhat Abbas’s Draft of Algeria’s 1963 Constitution: Visions of a Muslim Democrat

Ferhat Abbas’s draft of the Algerian Constitution (April 1963) has long remained unknown. The document sheds light on the personality of Abbas, who was one of the pillars of the Algerian national movement and one of the first opponents of the post-independence regime.

Massensen Cherbi

Associate

Conference | 08/09/2025 - 12/09/2025

Deutscher Orientalistentag 2025

Deutscher Orientalistentag 2025, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen Organisers: Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft Dr. Clara-Auguste Süß (Organiser), Benjamin Heidrich (Chair), Ph.D. Christian Thuselt (Panelist), Ph.D. Imad Alsoos (Panelist), PD Dr. Nora Lafi (Panelist), Massensen Cherbi (Panelist), Dr. André Bank (Discussant)

The panel “The State and Its Antagonisms: Contingency and Fragmentation of Political Order in the MENA Region”, organized by MECAM, explored how statehood is constituted, its internal dissonances, and tensions between imagined orders and practices across the Maghreb, Mashriq, and Germany.

Dr. Clara-Auguste Süß

Benjamin Heidrich

Ph.D. Christian Thuselt