CONFERENCES & TALKS

01/07/26 Speaker. “The Individual and the Community in Islamic Contexts: Past and Present,” 9th Annual Conference European Academy of Religion – Religion and (In)equalities, 01 July 2026, Luiss Univerity of Rome.

26/06/26  Invited Speaker. “Inclusive Citizenship, Democracy and Humanism in Contemporary Arab Thought and Societies,” at Notre Dame University Rome Portal, in collaboration with John Cabot University of Rom for Rome Summer Seminars on Religion and Global Politics.

05/05/26  Invited Speaker. “Le Università per Giulio Regeni – Libertà e ricerca nel mondo – Nord Africa in focus,” Roma Tor Vergata.

14/01/26  Guest speaker. “Rabat School: The Western Edge of the Arab-Islamic World,” for the Center for Arab Studies and Islamic Civilization (CASIC), at the American University of Sharjah, UAE.

21/01/26  Research Fellow speaker “Rabat School: Thinking from the Edge of the Arab-Islamic Worlds,” for Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World, at New York University of Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), UAE. (Within two weeks of a won research grant for writing, 12-24 January 2026)

19/11/25 Invited Speaker. “L’islam Europeo: una tipologia delle tendenze intellettuali,” per la conferenza “Islam, Religione d’occidente: il caso italiano,” Centro Interdisciplinare Scienze per la Pace (CISP), Università di Pisa-Gipsoteca di arte antica, Pisa.

06/11/25  Guest speaker. “The Quest for Democracy in Morocco: Insights from Intellectual and Political Dynamics,” for Seminar on “The Quest for Democracy in North Africa,” Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy at Boston College, Boston.

05/11/25  Guest speaker. “Thinking from the Edge of the Islamicate:
Contemporary Rabat School,” for the Middle Eastern Studies Program, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH.

9-10/10/25 Invited Speaker. workshop “Crisis of Islamic Epistemology,” Swiss Center for Islam and Society, University of Freibourg, Switzerland.

3-4/10/25 Speaker. “The Task of Re-Writing the History of Islam and Europe Relations:  Four Narratives,” for the Int. Conference “The Role   of   Muslim  Scholars and Intellectuals in Europe,” organized by the Center for Advanced Studies in Sarajevo, and the Faculty of Islamic Studies in Prishtina, Kosovo.

18/06/25 Guest speaker, “Ethics in Contemporary Arab Thought” (in Arabic – online), Saudi Center of Philosophy and Ethics (SCOPE), part of Tayba University, Saudi Arabia.

14/05/25 Participant. “Ethics in the Realist Idealism of Rabat School: From al-Fassi, to Lahbabi and Taha,” (in Arabic), 51^st commemoration of al-Fassi, Faculty of Letters, Hassan II University in Mohammedia, Morocco.

29/01/25  Invited Speaker. Beyond Protection: Imagining the Places of Worship in Europe – Beyond Protection: Transnational Imagination, PROTONE Project, Tevere Institute and Dialogue Platform, at Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome.

16/06/25 Invited speaker. “European Islamic Thought: Mapping a Challenging Territory,” Rome Summer Seminars on Religion and Global Politics III, John Cabot University, hosted by Gregorian Pontifical University, Rome.

8-9/05/25   “The State in Rabat School: Three Projects,” (in Arabic) for the Int. Conference “Contemporary Arabic Philosophy: Past Heritage and Present Challenges,” Divan Philosophy Forum at the Arabic House in Berlin.

17/04/25    Guest Author. “Y-a-t’-il une pensée marocaine?/ Does Moroccan Thought Exist?” Organized by Moroccan Ministry of Culture and Youth, International Book Fair Seminars, Rabat.

08/02/25    “Thematic and Methodological Guidelines for Researchers in Islamic Issues in Europe and the West,” Ijtihad Center for Islamic and Arabic Studies (online), Ghent, Belgium.

22/06/24    Speaker, “Reading Frithjof Schuon’s Metaphysics: Plurality through Orthodoxy,” for Islam and Pluralism Panel, European Academy of Religion Annual Conference, Palermo.

10/06/24    Invited Speaker. “Islam and Contemporary Europe,” for Rome Summer Seminars on Religion and Global Politics II, John Cabot University, hosted by Rome Global Gateway of Notre Dame University.

17/04/24    Guest Speaker, “Rabat School: A Different Reading of Contemporary Arab Thought,” organized by Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies and Atallah Chair in Ethics, at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon.

15/03/24    Invited Speaker. “Reading Taha Abderrahmane: Moral and Political Implications,” for Policy and Area Studies Webinar Series: Islamic Political Philosophy: A Contemporary Perspective, Department of Political Science, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

15/12/23    Invited Speaker, “The Islamic State, democracy, and the post-Islamist society: Insights from Tunisia,” for the Symposium “The Failure of the Arab Democracy: The Tunisian Case,” organized by Reset Dialogues on Civilizations in Milan, the Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme in Paris, and the University of Palermo, in Palermo.

11-12/12/23 Invited Speaker. “Contemporary Islamic Thought and the Question of Reforms,” for the Conference “The Hermeneutics of Change in the Abrahamic Traditions,” organized by McLean Center for the Study of Culture and Values at the Catholic University of America, Washington D.C., and the Faculty of Philosophy of the Gregorian University of Rome, in Rome.

01-02/12/23 Invited Speaker. “Rabat School of Thought: A Prelude to an Intellectual Edge,” for the workshop “Plurality Contested: Moroccan Cultural and Intellectual Production as the New Political,” organized by Religion and Politics Cluster of Excellence, Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies at Munster University, and SARAS Department of Sapienza University of Rome, in Munster.

17-18/11/23 Invited Keynote, “European Islamic Thought: Revisiting Moral Categories,” for the “Being Muslim in Europe: Orienting oneself in the context of good and bad diversity” conference, organized by the Swiss Center for Islam and Society at Freiburg University, and the Academy of Islam in Research and Society (AIWG) at the University of Goethe, Frankfurt, Germany.

05/10/23    Invited Speaker. “Islam, Europe, and the West: Narratives around the Mediterranean,” for Attachment to Place in a World of Nations Symposium, at the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy, Boston College,  Boston, US.

02/10/23    Invited Speake., “Religion, ethics, and politics in Europe,” for Migration, Diversity, and Governance (MiDiGo) Erasmus Mundus Design Measures closing conference, Center for Migration and Urban Studies, Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul.

22/09/23    Invited Speaker. “European Islamic Thought: An Introduction,” for Dal Pluralismo Giuridico allo stato interculturale conference, LUMSA University, Rome.

21/06/23    Invited Keynote. “On Islamic thick and thin ethics and the challenge of modern pluralism,” for the Symposium “Islamic Ethics and Living Together in Ethnic and Cultural Diversity,” Department of Languages and Cultures, Ghent University, Belgium.

07/06/23    Invited Keynote. “Islam and Contemporary Europe,” for “Rome Summer Seminars on Religion and Global Politics,” at University of Notre Dame-Rome Global Gate, and John Cabot (American) University, Rome.

09-11/05/23 Invited Speaker. “From Islam in Europe to European Islamic Thought: Developments and Challenges,” (in Arabic), Faculty of Letters, Sidi Mohammed Benabdellah University Dhar Mehrez of Fes, Morocco.

25/02/23    Invited Speaker. “Islam in a Secular Context,” (in Arabic) for Religion and Society in Europe Conference, Faculty of Arabic Studies, University of Cadi Ayyad, Marrakech, Morocco.

25-27/01/23 Invited Speaker. “On Modern Muslim Personalism: Insights from Moroccan Scholarship,” for Ethics and Contemporary Islam Conference, Department for the Study of Religions, University of Cape Town, South Africa.

08-09/12/22 Invited Speaker. “Religion in Contemporary Moroccan philosophical Thought,” for the Seminar “Maroc : les enjeux du religieux dans une société en transition “2012-2022”,” organized by Centre Jacques Berque, Rabat (affiliated to MEAE-CNRS, France).

25/10/22    Invited Guest Speaker. “Contemporary Moroccan Thought: Revisiting the Arab-Islamic Intellectual Tradition,” Abusulayman Center for Global Islam Studies, George Mason University, Virginia, US.

20-23/10/22 Invited Speaker. “Islamic Moral Theology and the Future,” Templeton Foundation Granted Project, held at George Mason University, Virginia, US.

16-17/02/22 Invited Speaker. “Islam in the 21^st Century: From the Homo Moralis to Homo Ethicus,” Islam in the 21^st Century Second Conference, held at UNESCO Palace, Paris.

31/01/22    Invited Guest Speaker to deliver Ibn Rushd Lecture. “Contemporary Challenges for Pluralism in the Islamic Context,” organized by Ibn Rushd Fund for Freedom of Thought in Berlin.

09-10/12/21 Invited Speaker. “Religion and the State in Contemporary Moroccan Thought,” for the international workshop “The Relationship between State and Religion in the Arab and Islamicate Contexts,” Multiple Secularities project, Center for Advanced Studies, Leipzig University, Germany.

22/11/21    Invited to deliver the 14^th Pieter Gillis Annual Lecture, on “European Islam: Possibilities and Challenges,” at Antwerp University, Belgium,

02/09/21    Invited Speaker. “Quran, Philosophy, and Change: Reflections from Contemporary Islamic Thought,” for Quran and Philosophy Panel, the European Academy of Religion (EUARE), Munster, Germany. (Online, Covid-19)

20/05/21    Invited Speaker. “Trajectories of European Islam: Facts and Challenges,” (Traiettorie dell’Islam europeo: realtà e sfide), Laboratorio PriMED 2021 (Interuniversity Project-MIUR) ““Paura del diverso, paura del possible,” Roma Tre University. (Online, Covid-19)

28/04/21    Invited Speaker. “The idea of European Islam,” Department of Political Science, Luiss Research Seminars. (Online, Covid-19)

10/11/20    Invited Speaker. L’idea dell’islam europeo: narrative, discorsi e sfide, within the project of “Combating the structural drivers of anti-Muslim Hatred and Intolerance,” organized by Ponte Per and the University of Calabria, Dept. of Political Sciences, Calabria, Italy. (Online, Covid-19)

05/11/20    Invited Speaker. Islam in Europa, Islamofobia, Islam Europeo, organized by Ponte Per and the University of Cagliari, Dept. of Political Sciences, Cagliari, Italy. (Online, Covid-19)

28/10/20    Invited Speaker. Islamic Ethics and the Trusteeship Paradigm, Seminar organized by the Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development (ARDD) in Jordan, Amman. (Online, Covid-19)

1-2/07/20   Conference Introduction (and scientific coordination), “Constitutional Challenges in the Arab World: A Reflective Introduction,” for the 3^rd edition of Reset DOC Seminars in North Africa: “Tolerance: Legal and Constitutional Perspectives from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic,” organized by Reset Dialogues on Civilizations (Milan), Reset Dialogues US, in collaboration with the Tunisian Academy for Sciences, Letters and Arts “Beit al-Hikma” in Carthage, Tunisia. (Held online because of Covid-19 pandemic). The conference is part of Carthage Summer school: 29 June-03 July 2020.

04/12/19    Invited Speaker. “Intellectual and Political Islam in the Mediterranean,” for “Perspectives on the New Centrality of the Mediterranean,” at Luiss University of Rome, in collaboration between MISLAM and CRiSSMA Center of Research on the Southern System and the Wider Mediterranean of the Università Cattolica del S. Cuore of Milan.

23/11/19    Invited Speaker. “European Islamic Identity.” For the first edition of EULEMA Forum on European Islamic Thought, organized by COREIS Italiana, KAICIID-Vienna, in partnership with the Municipality of Palermo, and the auspices of Deputy of SG of Council of Europe. At Palazzo delle Aquile, Palermo.

26/10/19    Invited Speaker. “Ethics in European Islamic thought”/ L’etica nel pensiero islamico europeo,” in the programme PRIMED Prevenzione e interazione nello spazio Trans-Mediterraneo, Università degli Studi di Padova.

8-9/10/19   Invited for Opening Keynote. “Challenges and Opportunities for Muslim Religious Leadership in Europe and North America,” for “From CopyPaste to Domestic Training? Muslim Religious Leadership in Europe and North America,” organized by AIWG (Akademie für Islam in Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft/ The Academy for Islam in Research and Society), and Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Berlin.

30/09/19    Invited Guest Speaker: “European Islam: Emerging Geotheologies and the Plurality of Authorities,” Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo.

10-13/07/19 Conference Introduction (and scientific coordination), “On Tolerance in the Mediterranean,” for Casablanca Seminars 2^nd edition, “Tolerance in Mediterranean Societies: History, Ideas, and Institutions,” Reset Doc and King Abdul Aziz Foundation, Casablanca.

16/06/19    Invited Guest Speaker: “European Islam, Imams, and Religious Authority,” Gulen Chair for Intercultral Studies (Lecture Series 2019), Leuven University, Belgium.

05-07/03/19 Speaker: “Religious Pluralism in Contemporary Islamic Thought: Views from the Edge,” for “Panel: Islam and Pluralism,” The European Academy of Religion, 2^nd edition, Bologna (06 March)

Speaker. “The Spiritual Modernity in the Trusteeship Paradigm of Taha Abderrahmane,” for “Panel: The Category of Modernity: A Critical Workshop,” The European Academy of Religion, 2^nd edition, Bologna (07 March)

19/11/18    Invited Speaker. “European Islam: Approaches of Study and Theological Trends,” in Religion in the Innovative Landscape Conference 19-21 November 2018, Bruno Kessler Foundation, in collaboration with the University of Pisa, Trento, Italy.

09-11/07/18 Organizer-Speaker. “On Pluralism and the Islamic Traditions,” for the internal conference of Sources of Pluralism in Islamic Thought, organized by Reset Dialogues on Civilizations, Granada Institute for Higher Studies and Research, and King Abdul Aziz Aal Saoud Fondation in Casablanca, Casablanca.

24-25/04/18 Invited Speaker (in Arabic). “Trust State Instead of Self-Destruction in the Arab World [dawlatu al-thiqa badala al-ihtiraaq al-thaati fi al-´alam al-arabi],” in Arab Renaissance Conference: Renewing The Civilizational Message, organized by Arab Renaissance for Development and Democracy (ARDD), the Jordan University and the American University of Beirut, held in Amman, Jordan.

15-16/12/17 Invited Speaker. “On European Islam,” for Islam and Political Islam in Europe International Conference, organized by Granada Institute, Mominoun Without Borders Foundatuon, Interuniversity Center for Culture, Law and Religions (FIDR), Padua University, at Giorgio Cini Foundation in Venezia, Italy.

29-30/11/17 Invited Speaker. “Mohammed A. al-Jabri between religious reform and critique of Arab reason,” for Forum international des réformes religieuse: religion, pluralité et égalité, Konrad-Adenauer Stiftung & l’Observatoire arabe de religions et de libertés, Tunis.

06/03/17    Visiting Research Fellows’ Seminar-Speaker: “On European Islam: Texts and Their Epistemological Shift,” Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, University of Oxford.

21/02/17    Invited Guest Speaker: “On European Islam: New Pathways beyond Orientalism and Occidentalism,” Centre for Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Birmingham, UK.

17-20/11/16 Organizer-Speaker. “Islamic Religious Authority between the Arab World and Europe: Multi-Tasked and Multi-Tasking Imams,” for Middle East Studies Association MESA 50^th Anniversary in Boston, USA. Paper: “The European Imam: A Nationalized Religious Authority.”

26-28/09/16 Invited Speaker. “On European Islam: The Rise of Modern Muslim Personalism,” International Conference on Shared Sacred Places, organized by Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz, Germany.

24/05/16    Invited Speaker. “Reflections on Civil Society in Islamic Contexts,” for the closing conference of “EUSPRING: Rights and Citizenship in North Africa,” Department of Human and Social Sciences, L’Orientale, Naples, Italy.

05/05/16    Invited. Guest Speaker: “European Islam: Bridging the Mediterranean,” for Pôle Langue Culture et Civilisation, the International University of Rabat (IUR).

3-4/05/16   Invited Speaker. “Practical Ethics for ‘Trust Social Contract’ in Taha Abderrahmane’s Political Philosophy,” for the 3^rd Annual Conference “The Relationship between Ethics and Dialogue in Contemporary Thought: the Moroccan Philosopher Taha Abderrahmane as a Case Study,” Chouaib Doukkali University, El Jadida, Morocco.

4-5/12/15   Invited Speaker. “The Aquatic Identity of Mediterranean Islam: from Cordoba Paradigm to the Emergent Reason”, DE RE Mediterranean 7^th Annual Conference, at Florence University of Arts and SUNY Brook University, Florence, Italy.

25-27/09/15 Speaker: “The Predicament of the Arab Spring: Mohammed Abed Al Jabri’s Project of Renewal and the Way Ahead,” at The Unfinished Propjet of the Arab World Conference, Alberta University, Edmonton, Canada.

11/09/15    Speaker:. “European Islam’s Approach of the Quran,” for “From Revelation to Scripture Symposium.” Cambridge Muslim College, Cambridge, UK.

5-7/11/14   Organizer-Speaker. “Imams in Western European Conference,” Luiss, Rome. Further details in Research Leadership section below.

10-15/12/12 Invited Speaker. “Moroccan Exceptionalism: In What Sense?” Religion and Democracy Conference Week, “The Future of Arab Spring: Local, Regional & International Perspectives,” organized by The International Research Network on Religion and Democracy (IRNRD) and The Indian Council for World Affairs (ICWA), New Delhi.

14-16/06/12 Invited Speaker. “European Islam and the New Heir of God: Overcoming Religion and Atheism,” in “Morocco in Transition” Conference, organized by Centre Jacques Berque in Dhar Mahrez Fes University, Morocco.

10-12/07/11 Speaker.  “Rethinking the Modern: Colonialism, Empire and Slavery Conference,” organized by Warwick University at Birmingham Midland Institute, UK. Paper Presentation: ‘Moroccan Women Writers Revisit the Past, Subvert Subalternity, and Defend the Tradition: Fatema Mernissi and Leila Abu Zaid in Focus.’

28-29/06/11 Organizer-Speaker. “European Islamic Thought in the Making,” Symposium for Global Migration and Multiculturalism conference (CRONEM) in Surrey University, UK. 

19-25/05/11 Participant. Funded by Resetdoc Foundation for Dialogue on Civilizations to participate in “Overcoming the Trap of Resentment” Seminars in Istanbul, Turkey.

21-27/03/11 Speaker. Funded participation by Dutch NISIS Spring school in Rabat, to present “Tariq Ramadan’s Project of European Islam: The Case of the Moroccan-Dutch,” Centre Jacque Berque & the French Institute in Rabat, Morocco.

26-30/10/10 Speaker: “Contemporary Religious Authority in the Islamic Paradigm: between Reform and Control,” NISIS First Autumn School, organized by The Netherlands Interuniversity School of Islamic Studies, Amsterdam.