Centre for Global Societies, Cultures, Cities and Arts      

Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Policy   

2020-2022 

22 October 2020, 21 October 2021, 6 October 2022, 12 October 2023. Master's seminar "History of the Arab World and the Middle East", Sorbonne Université, Paris. Paper: "Digital Humanities Applied to the Study of the Contemporary Middle East".  

30 June 2021. 4th Congress of the GIS Middle East and Muslim Worlds, Aix-Marseille University (online). Panel: "Armies and Military Personnel in the Maghreb and the Middle East: New Corpora and Historiographical Perspectives (20th-21st Centuries)". Paper: "The Memory of the Martyred Soldier in Contemporary Iran through Museums". 

20 January 2022. Workshop "History and the Historian Faced with the Quantitative", École Normale Supérieure (Ulm), Paris. Paper: "The Dematerialised Memory of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1994-2021, through Social Media and Web Archives". 

2023 

15 February. Lecture for final-year secondary school students (HGGSP), Lycée Joliot-Curie, Nanterre. Paper: "Iran: Politics and Geopolitics of a Regional Power in the Middle East". 

7 June. Round table, Doctoral School Meetings, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris. Paper: "The Screen in Conflict: Images of War and the War of Images". 

28 September. Master's seminar "History of the Arab World and the Middle East", Sorbonne Université, Paris. Paper: "Digital Humanities Applied to the Study of the Contemporary Middle East". 

16 October (postponed). IHEDN-iReMMO conference: "The Middle East: New Strategies of the Powers and Their Repercussions on Regional Crises", École Militaire, Paris. Paper: "Heading East: A Strategic Turning Point for the Islamic Republic of Iran?". 

13 November. 14th Historical Network Research Workshop, University of Lausanne, Lausanne. 

16 November. Study day, CRHXIX, Sorbonne Université / CERI, Sciences Po Paris: "States, Institutions and Societies in Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia and Pakistan since the 1970s", Sorbonne Université, Paris. Paper: "The Making of the Sepah's Historiography in Iran: Historians of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (1981-1989)". 

 8 December. Study day "Narrative Identities of the Contemporary Iranian World: Life-Writing, Life Histories and Prosopography, 1848-2005", Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris. Paper: "Lives Dedicated to the Defence of the Revolution: Memoirs and Writing the History of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps". 

2024 

28 May. Seminar "Information Warfare and Foreign Interference", IRSEM Europe, Brussels. Paper: "Is Iran Waging an Information Warfare? Understanding the Iranian 'Soft Defence' on French-Speaking Audiences". 

1st October. Centre Internet & Société Annual Days 2024, CNRS, Paris. Paper: "An Intranet in Iran? Between Nationalisation Projects and Informational Propagation in Cyberspace". 

7 November. International conference of the Observatory of American Foreign Policy (OPEXAM), IRSEM, Paris. Paper: "Iran, the Revolutionary Guards and the American 'Great Satan': Ruptures and Political Alliances since 1979". 

8 November. 7th Study Day on Contemporary Shi'ism, École Pratique des Hautes Études – Paris Sciences & Lettres, Paris. Paper: "The 'Scientific Jihād' of the Sepāh: Anatomy of a Historiographical School in the Islamic Republic since 1981". 

2025 

14 March. Research seminar "Women and Fieldwork: Towards the Creation of Methodological Tools", IRSEM Europe, University of Lille, TVES Laboratory (online). 

16 March. Institut du Monde Arabe History Days (11th edition), "The Figure of the Martyr in Contemporary Shi'ism", Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris. 

26 March. Round table "Setbacks of the Axis of Resistance: What Future for the Islamic Republic of Iran?", Institute for Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Research and Studies (iReMMO), Paris. 

23 May. International conference "New Diplomatic History" (6th edition), Sciences Po Aix, Aix-en-Provence. 

14 November. IranLab study day "Iran: Issues and Challenges of Research in a Constrained Field", GIS MOMM/GSRL. Paper: "Debates and Controversies of the Revolutionary Guards Online", Season 1, Campus Condorcet (online). 

15 December. Mètis Seminar, "The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps", Season 34, Sciences Po Paris. 

2026 

11 March. IranLab seminar: "The Sacred Defence of the Revolutionary Guards through Digital Sources" (online). 

14 May. Europe Week International Conference, Jean Monnet Chair – Bridging Horizons: "War in Iran: What is the Role of Europe?" (online) 

Media conferences 

Mahroug, S., « Iran : qui conduit la guerre ? », Le monde selon l'Ifri, Institut français des relations internationales, 7 août 2026. 

Mahroug, S., « Moyen-Orient : le régime iranien a-t-il intérêt à une guerre au long cours ? », Les Enjeux internationaux, France Culture, 22 juillet 2026. 

Mahroug, S., « Les paradigmes de civilisation à la lumière du Moyen-Orient », Géopolitique, RFI, 18 avril 2026. 

Mahroug, S., « Iran : autopsie d'un régime qui bouge encore », Le monde selon l'Ifri, Institut français des relations internationales, 23 mars 2026. 

Mahroug, S., « Iran : comment l'État a-t-il fait main basse sur l'information ? », La Fabrique de l'information, France Culture, 30 janvier 2026. 

Mahroug, S., « En Iran, les gardiens de la Révolution assurent à la fois le maintien des principes de la République islamique et celui d'un système népotique », Le Monde, 22 janvier 2026.  

Mahroug, S., « Iran, l'engrenage sanglant », Affaires étrangères, France Culture, 17 janvier 2026.

Mahroug, S., « Table ronde — Iran : les Gardiens de la Révolution à l'épreuve de la guerre », Cultures Monde, France Culture, 20 juin 2025. 

Mahroug, S., « Guerre informationnelle : quand l'Iran tente d'influencer la politique française », Le Figaro, 17 avril 2024.