About the Speaker
Ali Benmakhlouf is a professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnique University, Rabat (UM6P), where he also directs the African Studies Centre and co-directs the Centre for Arabic Classical Philosophy and Philosophy of Science. He is a professor emeritus at Paris Est Val de Marne University, an honorary member of the Institut Universitaire de France, and a resident member of the Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco. His work with UNESCO includes serving as an expert on philosophical dialogue between the Arab and Asian worlds (2004-2011) and coordinating the South/South philosophical dialogue (2013). Benmakhlouf’s research focuses on medical sciences, the philosophy of logic, and the legacies of classical Arabic philosophy, including the works of Al Fârâbi, Ibn Tufayl, and Averroès. He has contributed to bioethics, serving as vice-chairman of the French National Consultative Ethics Committee (2008-2016). His latest book, L’humanité des autres (2023), has been translated into Arabic and will soon be translated by Stanford University Press.
Sponsor(s): Center for Near Eastern Studies, Islamic Studies, UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies