Lecturer at the Foundation for Strategic Research, consultant specialising in the Middle East and lecturer at Sciences Po Paris. She has served as a Middle East analyst at the General Secretariat for National Defence and then as head of the Arab and Persian World Office at the Strategic Affairs Delegation at the Ministry of Defence. She was also a journalist at Nord Sud Export, part of the Le Monde group, and a contributor to Le Monde de l'économie before becoming director of news and programmes at RMC MO – the Arabic-language subsidiary of RFI – and then deputy editor-in-chief at France 24, responsible for Arabic-language content. She is also a member of the editorial board of the journal Confluences-Méditerranée.