The authors

MERMIER FranckMERMIER Franck

A researcher at the CNRS (Institut Interdisciplinaire d'Anthropologie du Contemporain-the Laboratory of Urban Anthropology), Franck Mermier directed the French Centre for Yemen Studies in Sanaa from 1991 to 1997, and the Department for Contemporary Studies at the Institut Français of the Near East in Beirut from 2005 to 2009. His anthropological research bears notably on the worlds of publishing and culture as well as on the urban societies of the Arab world. His publications include Le Cheikh de la nuit. Sanaa, organization des souks et société citadine (Arles: Actes Sud/Sinbad, 1997); Le Yemen contemporain (co-editor, Karthala 1999); Mondialisation et nouveaux medias dans l’espace arabe  (editor, Maisonneuve et Larose, 2003); Le livre et la ville. Beyrouth et l’édition arabe (Arles: Actes Sud/Sinbad, 2005); Liban. Une guerre de 33 jours (co-editor, Paris: La Découverte, 2007); Mémoires de guerres au Liban (1975 – 1990) (co-editor, Arles: Actes Sud/Sinbad, 2010).