# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gilles-kepel
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:23:53.709Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gilles-kepel"
name: "Gilles Kepel"
slug: "gilles-kepel"
description: "Gilles Kepel is a French political scientist and Arabist, specialized in the contemporary Middle East and Muslims in the West. He was a professor at Sciences Po Paris, and Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) university, where he was the director of the Middle East and Mediterranean Program. His book Away from Chaos: The Middle East and the Challenge to the West was reviewed by The New York Times as \"an excellent primer for anyone wanting to get up to speed on the region.\" His essay Le Prophète et la Pandémie / du Moyen-Orient au jihadisme d'atmosphère topped the best-seller lists, and was translated into English as well as several other languages."
tagline: "French political scientist and Arabist (born 1955)"
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country:
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  isoCode: "FR"
birthDate: "1955-06-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  trendDirection:       "RISING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump