{{Short description|French writer}} {{Infobox person | name = Nabil Ennasri | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1982|2|13}} | birth_place = Laval, France | occupation = Writer, activist, specialist in the geopolitics of Islam and the Middle East | education = Doctorate in Political Science from the Institute of Political Studies (IEP) in Aix-en-Provence }}
'''Nabil Ennasri''' is a French writer, association actor and specialist in the geopolitics of Islam and the Middle East (particularly the countries of the Arab-Persian Gulf).<ref>{{Cite journal |date=2017-06-16 |title=Nabil Ennasri : " Les monarchies voisines de l'Arabie saoudite n'ont d'autre choix que de suivre ses directives " |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2017/06/16/nabil-ennasri-les-monarchies-voisines-de-l-arabie-saoudite-n-ont-d-autre-choix-que-de-suivre-ses-directives_5145936_3232.html |journal=Le Monde.fr |language=fr |access-date=2021-02-14}}.</ref>
== Early life and education== He was born and raised in Laval.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nabil Ennasri, un Lavallois spécialiste du Qatar |url=https://actu.fr/pays-de-la-loire/laval_53130/nabil-ennasri-un-lavallois-specialiste-du-qatar_25403437.html |access-date=2021-02-12 |website=actu.fr |language=fr |archive-date=2020-08-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810031419/https://actu.fr/pays-de-la-loire/laval_53130/nabil-ennasri-un-lavallois-specialiste-du-qatar_25403437.html |url-status=dead }}.</ref> He studied political science at the Institute of Political Studies (IEP) in Aix-en-Provence, where he obtained a doctorate on Qatar's foreign policy.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Yûsuf al-Qaradhâwî et la politique étrangère du Qatar : une diplomatie "religieuse" ? : 2003–2013 |url=https://www.theses.fr/111086787 |access-date=2021-02-14 |website=www.theses.fr}}.</ref>
Ennasri is a political scientist<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nabil Ennasri, politologue : " Le partenariat entre la France et le Maroc s'assombrit " |url=https://www.lequipe.fr/Football/Actualites/Nabil-ennasri-politologue-le-partenariat-entre-la-france-et-le-maroc-s-assombrit/1369813 |access-date=2023-02-06 |website=L'Équipe |language=fr}}</ref> and researcher specializing in Islamist movements.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=2022-09-26 |title=Youssef Al-Qaradawi, prédicateur sunnite et guide spirituel des Frères musulmans, est mort |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2022/09/26/youssef-al-qaradawi-predicateur-sunnite-et-guide-spirituel-des-freres-musulmans-est-mort_6143276_3210.html |journal=Le Monde.fr |language=fr |access-date=2022-11-10}}</ref> As part of the World Cup in Qatar organized in November–December 2022, he is asked by several French and foreign media to deliver his critical expertise on the event and its repercussions for the organizing country.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=2022-11-24 |title=Coupe du monde 2022 : « Les appels au boycott du Mondial n'ont trouvé d'écho qu'en Europe, pas en Amérique latine, en Asie et encore moins dans le monde arabe » |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/coupe-du-monde-2022/live/2022/11/24/coupe-du-monde-2022-le-qatar-petit-pays-aux-grandes-ambitions-posez-vos-questions-a-nabil-ennasri-specialiste-de-l-emirat_6151382_6101826.html |journal=Le Monde |language=fr-FR |access-date=2023-02-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-12-23 |title=Coupe du Monde : " Le Qatar a pu redorer son blason, et ce n'était pas gagné " |url=https://www.nouvelobs.com/coupe-du-monde-2022/20221223.OBS67474/coupe-du-monde-le-qatar-a-pu-redorer-son-blason-et-ce-n-etait-pas-gagne.html |access-date=2023-02-06 |website=L'Obs |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title="La Coupe du monde de tous les Arabes" : comment le Qatar voit son Mondial | website=YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SykIf1hg8RM |access-date=2023-02-06 |language=fr-FR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Nabil Ennasri, co-auteur de "L'empire du Qatar, le nouveau maître du jeu ?" : "Les critiques contre le Qatar sont hypocrites" |url=https://www.maroc-hebdo.press.ma/nabil-ennasri-directeur-observatoire-qatar-critiques-contre-qatar-hypocrites |access-date=2023-02-06 |website=www.maroc-hebdo.press.ma |language=fr}}</ref>
From 2008 to 2010, he studied Muslim theology at the European Institute of Human Sciences in Château-Chinon. According to the Liberation newspaper, in a 2013 article,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Devin |first=Willy Le |title=Ramadan, VRP de luxe |url=https://www.liberation.fr/societe/2013/04/26/ramadan-vrp-de-luxe_899409/ |access-date=2023-03-17 |website=Libération |language=fr}}</ref> Nabil Ennasri "is above all a Muslim Brotherhood, a disciple of Yusuf al-Qaradawi". However, in a 2017 article,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sauvaget |first=Bernadette |title=Face aux accusations, l'embarras des soutiens de Tariq Ramadan |url=https://www.liberation.fr/france/2017/10/29/face-aux-accusations-l-embarras-des-soutiens-de-tariq-ramadan_1606670/ |access-date=2023-03-17 |website=Libération |language=fr}}</ref> the same newspaper Liberation reports a distance taken by Nabil Ennasri with Tariq Ramadan, grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, recorded since 2014. The political scientist has since been invited by the same newspaper Liberation as "Qatar Specialist" (April 17–18, 2021 issue, page 3).
== Qatar specialist == In March 2013, he published with IRIS (Institute for International and Strategic Research) L'énigme du Qatar.<ref>{{Cite web |title=L'énigme du Qatar {{!}} IRIS |url=https://www.iris-france.org/publications/lenigme-du-qatar/ |access-date=2021-02-12 |website=www.iris-france.org}}.</ref> This essay, prefaced by the geopolitical scientist Pascal Boniface, is part of a series of essays devoted to the small emirate and written by journalists and academics whose review Cairn has made several reviews.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Denis Bauchard |date=Autumn 2013 |title=Le Qatar : un micro-état aux ambitions planétaires |url=https://www.cairn.info/revue-politique-etrangere-2013-3-page-190.htm |journal=Politique étrangère |language=French |pages=190–194 |issn=0032-342X}}.</ref><ref>Boniface Pascal, « L'intérêt littéraire suscité par le Qatar », ''Revue internationale et stratégique'', 2013/3 ({{Numero|91}}), {{P.|193-198}}. DOI : 10.3917/ris.091.0193. URL : <nowiki>https://www.cairn.info/revue-internationale-et-strategique-2013-3-page-193.htm</nowiki></ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=BFM Story: Le Qatar finance-t-il le terrorisme ? – 19/01 |url=https://www.bfmtv.com/replay-emissions/bfm-story/bfm-story-le-qatar-finance-t-il-le-terrorisme-19-01_VN-201501190036.html |access-date=2021-02-14 |language=fr}}.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-06-14 |title=Débat du jour – La France doit-elle revoir ses relations avec le Qatar? |url=https://www.rfi.fr/fr/emission/20170614-france-doit-elle-revoir-relations-le-qatar |access-date=2021-02-17 |website=RFI |language=fr}}.</ref>
In October 2013, he published another book entitled Qatar (Editions De Boeck), which is a booklet presenting the country.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-02-12 |title=Qatar |url=https://www.deboecksuperieur.com/ouvrage/9782804181420-qatar |access-date=2021-02-14 |website=De Boeck Supérieur |language=fr}}.</ref>
In November 2017, he became a doctor in political science after having defended a doctoral thesis on the religious diplomacy of Qatar within the IEP of Aix-en-Provence.<ref>{{Cite web |title=scanR {{!}} Moteur de la Recherche et de l'Innovation |url=https://scanr.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/publication/these2017AIXM0421 |access-date=2021-02-14 |website=scanr.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr |language=fr}}.</ref> The jury, made up of academics specializing in the Gulf countries (such as Stéphane Lacroix) is chaired by Baudouin Dupret, whose academic research focuses on Islamic law.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Iremam – Soutenance de thèse (ED 67) |url=https://iremam.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article4532&lang=en |access-date=2021-02-12 |website=iremam.cnrs.fr }}{{Dead link|date=July 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-02-21 |title=Chercheur {{!}} Sciences Po CERI |url=http://sciencespo.fr/ceri/fr/cerispire-user/7204/2511 |access-date=2021-02-14 |website=sciencespo.fr |language=fr}}.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Iremam – Soutenance de thèse (ED 67) |url=https://iremam.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article4532&lang=en |access-date=2021-02-14 |website=iremam.cnrs.fr }}{{Dead link|date=July 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Enseignements de Baudouin Dupret, directeur de recherche au CNRS, en 2018–2019 : HABU |url=https://enseignements-2018.ehess.fr/2018/enseignant/596/ |access-date=2021-02-12 |website=enseignements-2018.ehess.fr}}.</ref>
In October 2022, he published a book "The Empire of Qatar, the new master of the game?"<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.placedeslibraires.fr/livre/9782359302523-l-empire-du-qatar-le-nouveau-maitre-du-jeu-raphael-le-magoariec-nabil-ennasri/ |title=L'empire du Qatar : le nouveau maître du jeu? – Raphaël Le Magoariec, Nabil Ennasri – Les Points Sur Les I – Grand format – Place des Libraires |language=fr |access-date=2022-11-10}}</ref> co-written with Raphaël Le Magoariec,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Magoariec |first=Raphaël Le |title=PSG–Manchester City : si loin du Golfe, si proche du Golfe |url=http://theconversation.com/psg-manchester-city-si-loin-du-golfe-si-proche-du-golfe-168728 |access-date=2022-11-10 |website=The Conversation |date=27 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref> doctoral student in geopolitics at the University of Tours.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Raphaël Le Magoariec |url=https://afterfoot.media/o/Author/raphael-le-magoariec_au6722 |access-date=2022-11-10 |website=afterfoot.media |language=fr}}</ref> In a column in the Journal du Dimanche,<ref name="+h1">{{Cite web |title=TRIBUNE. " Mondial au Qatar : la fausse bonne idée du boycott " |url=https://www.lejdd.fr/Sport/tribune-mondial-au-qatar-la-fausse-bonne-idee-du-boycott-4137925 |access-date=2022-11-10 |website=lejdd.fr |date=October 2022 |language=fr}}</ref> they denounce the calls for a boycott of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar while supporting the approach of human rights NGOs such as Amnesty International to make this world a lever to wrest more rights. benefits for workers employed in the Gulf emirate.<ref name="+h1" />
== Commitment to ecology == Involved in the French associative fabric since his post-baccalaureate studies, Nabil Ennasri is also committed to the theme of ecology and awareness of the environmental cause. Alongside certain specialists such as Hervé Kempf, and through various colloquiums,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Colloque musulman sur l'écologie | website=YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W8yYDe80K8 |access-date=2023-02-14 |language=fr-FR}}</ref> forums,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Reporterre |title=Contre le terrorisme et pour la planète : paroles d'un musulman écologiste |url=https://reporterre.net/Contre-le-terrorisme-et-pour-la-planete-paroles-d-un-musulman-ecologiste |access-date=2023-02-14 |website=Reporterre, le média de l'écologie |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Reporterre |title=Quelle rencontre entre l'Islam et l'écologie ? |url=https://reporterre.net/Quelle-rencontre-entre-l-Islam-et-l-ecologie |access-date=2023-02-14 |website=Reporterre, le média de l'écologie |language=fr}}</ref> and conferences since 2011<ref>{{Cite web |title=Islam et ecologie Nabil Ennasri 1.rm | website=YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx_DkaibGhI |access-date=2023-02-14 |language=fr-FR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Ecologie et Islam RAMF 2018 avec Nabil ENNASRI | website=YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI_2BOeRypU |access-date=2023-02-14 |language=fr-FR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Écologie et sources islamiques | website=YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ2WixH8_jM |access-date=2023-02-14 |language=fr-FR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Nabil ENNASRI- Mosquée de Massy- 02/05/2014 Le plaidoyer de l'ethique écologique | website=YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TF7hDn__Qs |access-date=2023-02-14 |language=fr-FR}}</ref> he has held a discourse of accountability and a call to action around what he calls the "duty to environmental solidarity".<ref>{{Cite web |title=L'Ecologie, ou en sommes nous? – Nabil Ennasri | website=YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoHBUV5ZKng |access-date=2023-02-14 |language=fr-FR}}</ref> He also makes it a major theme of his book entitled "Les 7 Défis capitals" published in 2014,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nabil Ennasri : présentation de son livre "Les 7 défis capitaux" | website=YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsPqJr9WgmQ |access-date=2023-02-14 |language=fr-FR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Nabil Ennasri lance " Sept défis capitaux " {{!}} LeJSD |url=https://www.lejsd.com/content/nabil-ennasri-lance-%C2%AB-sept-d%C3%A9fis-capitaux-%C2%BB |access-date=2023-02-14 |website=www.lejsd.com |archive-date=2023-04-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230402021327/https://www.lejsd.com/content/nabil-ennasri-lance-%C2%AB-sept-d%C3%A9fis-capitaux-%C2%BB |url-status=dead }}</ref> which earned him an invitation to the program "Les grandes questions"<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=13 novembre : la faute au communautarisme ? | website=YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNA6TZYNaBE |access-date=2023-02-14 |language=fr-FR}}</ref> broadcast on France 5 and presented by Franz-Olivier Giesbert.
== Publications == He publishes two self-published books:
* ''Les 7 Défis capitaux''<ref name=":0"/> * ''Et maintenant que fait-on ?''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nabil Ennasri lance "Sept défis capitaux" |url=https://www.lejsd.com/content/nabil-ennasri-lance-%C2%AB-sept-d%C3%A9fis-capitaux-%C2%BB |access-date=2021-02-14 |website=lejsd.com |archive-date=2022-06-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220629072445/https://www.lejsd.com/content/nabil-ennasri-lance-%C2%AB-sept-d%C3%A9fis-capitaux-%C2%BB |url-status=dead }}.</ref>
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