Professor of history at EPHE (École Pratique des Hautes Études), Paris Sciences & Lettres University (PSL), Dominique Avon is specialized in contemporary religious history (Christianity, Islam). He taught in France, Egypt, Lebanon, USA, Belgium and Italy. He is currently director of the Institute for the Study of Religions and Laicité (IREL). He worked with Academics in Morocco, Belgium, Switzerland, and Lebanon in order to write free courses online (Arabic, French, English): صفحة الاستقبال – HEMED (univ-lemans.fr). He wrote, edited or coedited twenty books, among them Hezbollah: A History of the « Party of God » (Harvard UP, 2012), La liberté de conscience. Histoire d’une notion et d’un droit (Rennes, PUR, 2020) and L’Histoire religieuse contemporaine en France (Paris, La Découverte, 2022). He has published a hundred articles: https://cv.hal.science/dominique-avon