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Sonia Dayan-Herzb (28 January 1940) is a French sociologist, philosopher and professor emeritus at Paris-Diderot University.

Biography
She was born in Rouen at the beginning of the Second World War, into a Central European Jewish family that had fled Nazism. After her studies in philosophy, she was a teacher in high school, then from 1969, she taught sociology at the University of Paris-Nanterre. In 1985, she was appointed assistant professor at the University of Paris-Diderot. In 1987, she defended a thesis on the political investment of the workers' movement, under the direction of Claude Lefort, in which she highlighted the role played by Ferdinand Lassalle. She was appointed professor at the UFR of Social Sciences of the University of Diderot in 1989, where she founded the "Centre de sociologie des pratiques et des représentations politiques" in 1991, which later became a component of the Laboratoire de changement social et politique.

In 1992, she created the magazine "Tumultes", which she directs.

She became a professor emeritus in 2008.

Research activities
Her research focuses on socialist theorists, including her early work on Ferdinand Lassalle and Marx; she has devoted three books to this question, including the presentation and translation of the Marx-Lassalle correspondence (PUF, 1978). She has since published a new translation and a new edition of the Critique of the Gotha Program. She is also interested in feminist studies from a gender perspective. In 1987, she prepared a report for the United Nations on women in the occupied Palestinian territories, and continues to work on gender in the Middle East, particularly in its relationship to politics, from a post-colonial perspective.

She is interested in the relationship between aesthetics, politics and critical theory, in terms of domination, resistance and emancipation.

Since 1999 she has been teaching, in collaboration with the anthropologist Tassadit Yacine, a seminar at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales on gender relations in the Maghreb and the Mashreq.

In 1982, along with other intellectuals and academics, she initiated the Appel des Juifs contre la guerre au Liban, whose president was Pierre Vidal-Naquet and of which she became secretary.

The following year, with Paul Kessler, she created the Center for Cooperation with the University of Beir Zeit and participated in missions to the Palestinian territories (West Bank and Gaza).

She is vice-president of the Association of Academics for the Respect of International Law in Palestine8 and was president of the Islam and Secularism Commission from 2009 to 2015.

She is a contributor to La Quinzaine littéraire and to the online journal En attendant Nadeau.

Public positions
Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun co-signed an op-ed entitled "Nuit de Cologne: Kamel Daoud recycles the most hackneyed Orientalist clichés," published by Le Monde on February 11, 2016.

In the context of the Tariq Ramadan case, she signed an op-ed on February 21, 2018 on Mediapart blog alongside about fifty personalities calling for "impartial and equal justice" for Tariq Ramadan, who has been indicted for rape and remanded in custody, and in which it is requested that he be released immediately due to his health condition.

Distinctions

 * 2016: Frantz Fanon Prize, Caribbean Philosophical Association.

Publications (sélection)

 * Le journalisme au cinéma, Ed. Du Seuil, March 2010
 * Towards a post colonial political thought. From Frantz Fanon, edited by Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun. Tumultes. Edition Kimé, Paris, October 2008.
 * Edward Said critical theorist, edited by Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun and Azadeh Kian, Tumultes September 2012, Editions Kimé, Paris, November 2010
 * Le Moyen-Orient en mouvement, edited by Sonia Dayan-herzbrun and Azadeh Kian, Tumultes September 2012, Editions Kimé.
 * L’Etat: concepts et politiques, edited by Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun, Numa Murray and Étienne Tassin, Tumultes, May 2015, Editions Kimé.
 * Dire les homosexualités d’une rive à l’autre de la Méditerranée, edited by Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun an Tassadit Yacine, Tumultes October 2013, Editions Kimé.
 * Rien qu’une vie, Hémisphère, 2022 (ISBN 978-2-37701-133-9)

Notes et references

 * 1) Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun, « Au risque de la nostalgie », p. 65-83, in Histoires de vie & choix théoriques en sciences sociales - Parcours de femmes, Paris, L'Harmattan, coll. « Changement social », n°10.
 * 2) ↑ Oriane Petteni, « Entretien avec Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun. Théorie critique, sociologie de la domination et perspectives féministes (Moyen-Orient et Afrique du Nord) », Cahiers du GRM, n°10,‎ 2016 (lire en ligne [archive], consulté le 7 novembre 2020).
 * 3) ↑ Liste des membres du LCSP [archive], consultée le 26 avril 2018.
 * 4) ↑ Page de la revue Tumultes sur le site de l'university Paris Diderot [archive], consultée en ligne le 29 février 2016.
 * 5) ↑ « Politique, esthétique, féminisme. Mélanges en l’honneur de Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun », Tumultes, no 37, 2011/2, http://www.cairn.info/revue-tumultes-2011-2.htm [archive] Mélanges en l'honneur de Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun, numéro de la revue Tumultes sur la page de la revue.
 * 6) ↑ Myriam El, La traversée du siècle d'une scientifique rebelle, Paris, L'Harmattan, 1997, p. 96.
 * 7) ↑ « L’étau se resserre sur les territoires occupés », Le Monde diplomatique, mai 1989, [lire en ligne [archive]]
 * 8) ↑ AURDIP http://www.aurdip.fr/ [archive]
 * 9) ↑ http://www.islamlaicite.org/ [archive]
 * 10) ↑ Liste des collaborateurs de la revue En attendant Nadeau [archive], consultée en ligne le 29.02.16.
 * 11) ↑ [lire en ligne [archive]].
 * 12) ↑https://blogs.mediapart.fr/les-invites-de-mediapart/blog/210218/tariq-ramadan-pour-une-justice-impartiale-et-egalitaire [archive], blogs.mediapart.fr, 21 février 2018.
 * 13) ↑ The Frantz Fanon Prize [archive], page consultée en ligne le 18.03.16.