Agnès Levallois, a graduate of the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations – INALCO (literary and dialectal Arabic), and holder of a DEA from Sciences Po on the contemporary Arab world, is a lecturer at Sciences Po Paris and the INSP, president of the Institute for Research and Studies on the Mediterranean and the Middle East (iReMMO) and a member of the editorial board of the journal Confluences Méditerranée. 

She has served as a senior research fellow at the Foundation for Strategic Research (FRS), a project officer at the International Diplomatic Academy, director of news and programmes at RMC-MO (the Arabic-language subsidiary of RFI), and deputy editor-in-chief at France 24, responsible for the Arabic service. She served as a Middle East expert at the Secretariat of National Defence (SGDN) before becoming head of the Arab and Persian World Office at the Strategic Affairs Directorate (DAS) of the Ministry of Defence.

She is a specialist in political and social developments in the contemporary Arab world and in the analysis of conflicts in the Middle East.

She has written books and numerous articles on the Middle East, including: Jerusalem: From Division to Partition? (Michalon), The Middle East: A Guide (Stock); co-author of Lebanon: A 33-Day War (La Découverte), Syria Today (Actes Sud) and Mediterranean: 30 Voices to Build a Common Future, Ipemed, ‘Building the Mediterranean’ collection, and The Black Book of Gaza (Le Seuil, 2024).

She has spent a great deal of time in the Middle East, including two years in Syria at the Institute of Arab Studies in Damascus.