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Samir Saul - Michel Seymour

Samir Saul holds a doctorat d’État in history (Paris) and is a professor of international history at the Université de Montréal. His latest book is entitled Imperialism, As Rampant Today as in the Past (2025). He is also the author of L'Impérialisme, passé et présent. Un essai (2023); Intérêts économiques français et décolonisation de l'Afrique du Nord (1945-1962) (2016); La France et l'Égypte de 1882 à 1914. Intérêts économiques et implications politiques (1997). He is also co-editor of Méditerranée, Moyen-Orient : deux siècles de relations internationales (2003). He recently published with Michel Seymour Le conflit mondial au XXIe siècle (2025). Email: samir.saul@umontreal.ca _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Michel Seymour is honorary professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Université de Montréal, where he taught from 1990 to 2019. He is the author of a dozen monographs, including A Liberal Theory of Collective Rights, 2017; La nation pluraliste, co-authored with Jérôme Gosselin-Tapp, for which the authors won the Canadian Philosophical Association Prize; De la tolérance à la reconnaissance, 2008, for which he won the Jean-Charles Falardeau Prize of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. He also won the Richard Arès prize from Action nationale magazine for Le pari de la démesure, published in 2001. He recently published with Samir Saul Le conflit mondial au XXIe siècle (2025). Email : seymour@videotron.ca web site: michelseymour.org

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