- 1) Morocco, Casa Blanca, 2002, Jan,

 A member of the research group “Islam and Modernity in a Maghribi context”, Foundation of the King Abdulaziz Aal Saud for Islamic studies and Human Sciences. 

 - 2)  Morocco, Casa Blanca & Rabat, 2003, Jan,

 "Comparative Religion in Modern Islamic Educational Systems in the Maghrib”

 - 3) Germany, Berlin, 2003, Aug, 

     (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin),

Summer Academy: THE HERMENEUTICS OF BORDER: CANON AND COMMUNITY IN JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM, as a theme of the JEWISH AND ISLAMIC HERMENEUTICS AS CULTURAL CRITIQUE proposed by the “WORKING GROUP MODERNITY AND ISLAM”    

My participation was “Hermeneutic and Modernity in Islamic Thought: the    Global, the local and the Marginal”

 Under the direction of Prof. Dr. Daniel Boyarin, (University of California at Berkeley) and PD. Dr. Brigit Krawietz, (Orientalishes Seminar, der Universität Tübingen), Prof. Dr. Galit Hasan Rokem, (Hebrew University) .

-         Participation in the working group “Allegorical Reading and the Construction of Identity” directed by Prof. Dr. Nasr Hamid Abu Zaid (Universiteit Leiden, Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World) and Prof. Dr. Daniel Boyarin, (University of California at Berkeley)

- 4) Morocco, Tanjier, Jun 22- 25, 2004,

    Tanjier American Legation Museum,

 AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR MAGHRIB STUDIES (AIMS)- 2004 Conference “Rethinking Jewish Culture and Society in North Africa”, Co sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies- University of California at Berkley and the University of California, Irvine, Directed by Prof Daniel Schroeter and Prof. Emily Gottreich.

“Self-image created by others: Imazighen Jews in Ibadhi contexts, the examples of Jabal Nefusa (Libya), Jerba (Tunisia) and Wargilan (Algeria) in the middle ages”.

- 5) Hungary, Budapest, July, 2004,

   Central European University,

Summer University “Jews and Muslims in the Middle ages”, under the direction of Prof. Mark Cohen.

- 6) Morocco, (whole country), September 2004,

 Center for Middle Eastern Studies, THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR MAGHRIB STUDIES, Tanjier American Legation,  Aims, Cemat & Talm Fellows 2004- Maghribi Scholars, Tunisian Scholars to Morocco,

Imazighen Islam and “Mimetic Religions” in the Maghrib: Local Prophets and Mahdists in the Middle ages, a Post-Doc research project.

 7) United States of America, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, Atlanta & Washington D. C., Juin- July 2005, University of California, Santa Barbara,

 Institute of Religion; Religion in the United States; Pluralism and Public Presence. Course Director: W. Clark Roof,

8) Sousse, Tunisia, Dec 2006

  - - العقلانيّة العربيّة المعاصرة: النّموذج الرّشدي: أعمال ندوة تفاعل العلوم: اتّصال العلوم وانفصالها في الثّقافة العربيّة.

كليّة الآداب والعلوم الإنسانيّة بسوسة، تونس، ديسمبر 2006

09) Sousse, Tunisia, Mai- Juin 2007,

International Symposium on 'The Challenge of Religious Pluralism and Dialogue; the West, the Middle East and Japan.

"The Study of Religion in the Arab World: Comparative Religion and Modernization Tendencies".

10) Sousse, Nov 2007

Tunisia- Japan Symposium on Society, Sciences and Technology, 8th Ed. of Kantaoui Forum

"Religion and Identity in Tunisia an Japan; A comparative study with special focus on Islam and Shinto".

11), University of Tsukuba, Tokyo, Japan, Jul-August 2008.

- Visiting Scholar