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Hakim El Karoui

Senior Fellow - Arab World, Islam

Hakim El Karoui is head of the Paris office of Brunswick, a UK-based communications consultancy.

He has authored the report on Islam in France, Un islam français est possible, and Nouveau monde arabe, nouvelle politique arabe pour la France (the New Arab world, a new "Arab policy" for France).

He taught at the University of Lyon II before joining the Prime Minister's office in 2002. After working at the Ministry of the Economy and Finance, he joined the Rothschild bank in 2006. In 2011, he joined the strategy consulting firm Roland Berger, where he co-directs the Africa department while also consulting the French government. He is also the head of Volentia, a strategic consulting firm that he founded 5 years ago. He is also an author, analyst and social entrepreneur (he created the 21st Century Club and the Young Mediterranean Leaders).

Hakim El Karoui is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and holds a degree in geography.

Publications

Stability in the Maghreb: an Imperative for Europe

Publication - May 2021

Europe has to contribute to the economic recovery of the Maghreb after Covid-19. ...

The Islamist Factory

Publication - September 2018

“The Islamist ideology generates fear. But we should be driven by reason rather than fear. It is by understanding the machinery of the Islamist engine that we will be able to...

A New Strategy for France in a New Arab World

Publication - August 2017

This report suggests a new strategy, around four goals: prioritizing the Maghreb, containing the spread of Islamism, preventing future migration crises and adopting a mediating...

A French Islam is Possible

Publication - September 2016

“It is because distrust, ignorance, and the growing hostility of part of the population are threatening our national unity, that the Muslims of France must use knowledge to...

Analyses

The Politics of Macron’s Commemoration of the Algerian War

18 March 2022 | Hakim El Karoui | Mahaut de Fougières

The "duty to remember" is a cause dear to Emmanuel Macron’s heart, as it was to his mentor, the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur. Memory and remembrance have been important issues since the beginning of the French President’s term: in November 2018, a week of "itinérance mémorielle" was...

Bataclan 6 Years On: The Attacks That Changed France

18 November 2021 | Mahaut de Fougières | Hakim El Karoui

November 13 marked the 6th anniversary of the Paris attacks - a series of simultaneous jihadist terrorist attacks that took place in 2015 outside the Stade de France during an international football match, in the Bataclan theatre during a concert, and in a crowded area of cafés and restaurants in...

Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia: North Africa Gripped by Turmoil

6 September 2021 | Hakim El Karoui

This summer was marked by instability for the Maghreb states. The pandemic has exacerbated pre-existing structural challenges of the region, rooted in the 2019 Algerian hirak, the Moroccan Rif revolt of 2017 and the political and social instability that has plagued Tunisia since 2011. Corruption,...

A Light at the End of the Libyan Tunnel?

Interview with Youssef Chahed

2 June 2021 | Youssef Chahed | Hakim El Karoui

A decade ago, Tunisia’s "Jasmine Revolution" opened the way for the Arab Spring in the region, creating both new opportunities and raising new challenges. In the midst of this democratic wave, the Libyan people found new political aspirations. But among the countries that attempted to reach...

Tunisia At A Crossroads

Interview with Youssef Chahed

25 May 2021 | Youssef Chahed | Hakim El Karoui

This year marks the 10th anniversary of Tunisia’s "Jasmine Revolution," the precursor of the Arab Spring. It led to the removal of Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali and set Tunisia on the path to democracy. But today, the Tunisian state must tackle worsening public finances, rising migration issues and a...

The French Brief - Reinforcing the Principles of the Republic: A French Paradox?

Three questions to Hakim El Karoui

10 March 2021 | Hakim El Karoui

2 October 2020, Les Mureaux, north-west of Paris, President Emmanuel Macron gave a speech on the fight against separatism: the French Republic (is) in action. In his words, France has "created neighborhoods where the promise of the Republic has no longer been kept". To answer such shortcoming,...

The French Brief - Finding Answers to Islamic Separatism

9 November 2020 | Hakim El Karoui

The issue of Islamic separatism has been at the heart of French political debate in recent weeks. On October 2, President Emmanuel Macron gave a speech on the fight against separatism, in which he announced a set of laws that he intended to pass, including stricter monitoring of schooling and of...

The French Brief - The Overdue Task of Understanding France's Poor Districts

30 October 2020 | Hakim El Karoui

At the beginning of October, Emmanuel Macron outlined measures to tackle and combat "Islamist separatism" in France. While the public polarizes around the opposing sides of the debate, and in light of recent tragic attacks calling attention to France’s crisis of secularism, a number of questions...

Covid-19: No, the West Is Not Doomed

5 May 2020 | Hakim El Karoui

As the Covid-19 epidemic progresses, numerous analyses point out to the winners and losers of the crisis. Everywhere, a consensus is growing that China will emerge stronger, the United States weaker, and Europe more fragile than ever. In my opinion, such analyses are making three major mistakes,...

Is Covid-19 a Game-Changer for the Middle East and the Maghreb?

23 April 2020 | Michel Duclos | Hakim El Karoui

The region stretching from the Persian Gulf to the Maghreb is vital to both French and European interests. Home to the world’s largest hydrocarbon reserves, it has been affected by multiple crises for several decades. Its stability is essential to the balance of the globalized world, both...

The Muslim Veil in France: Why so Controversial?

Three questions to Hakim El Karoui

18 November 2019 | Hakim El Karoui

In recent weeks, the French debate on the Muslim veil - or headscarf - has resurfaced. Hakim El Karoui, Senior Fellow at Institut Montaigne, and author of the report A French islam is possible, answers our questions about the significance of this controversy - and the relationship between...

Demography and Society: Overcoming Fantasies - The Perspectives of Hakim El Karoui and Bruno Tertrais

10 October 2018 | Hakim El Karoui | Bruno Tertrais

Hakim El Karoui, Senior Fellow at Institut Montaigne and author for Institut Montaigne of the report The Islamist Factory, and Bruno Tertrais, Deputy Director of the Foundation for Strategic Research and author for Institut Montaigne of the note The Demographic Challenge: Myths and Realities,...

“Our Priority Is to Have a Real France-Maghreb Policy”

1 February 2018 | Institut Montaigne

On 31 January and 1 February 2018, the French President is on an official visit to Tunis, accompanied by some members of government and representatives from the business world. Hakim El Karoui, author of Institut Montaigne’s report “A New Strategy for France in a New Arab World”, shares...

Saudi Arabia: Curing the Dutch disease

27 November 2017 | Institut Montaigne

The crown prince Mohammad bin Salman’s recent announcements during his opening speech at the Future Investment Initiative aim at acutely reforming Saudi Arabia. As part of his program “Saudi Vision 2030” displayed in April 2016, MBS’s declarations appear in a climate of increasing tensions...

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