Armin Messager

Armin Messager is a French researcher in sociohistory and political science, and a journalist. His work focuses on Islamism, post-war rural transformations, and religious authority in the Middle East (Kurdistan, Iraq, Syria, Iran). He conducted extensive fieldwork in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, where he examined the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood and later Salafism in peripheral and rural areas after the Iran–Iraq War, exploring their social and territorial roots.