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antoine sfeir beirut , lebanon 200 20px france / 20px lebanon 25 november 1948 portrait antoine sfeir.jpg antoine sfeir
 antoine sfeir journalist professor
antoine sfeir

antoine sfeir , -lrb- born 25 november 1948 in beirut , lebanon -rrb- , is a franco-lebanese journalist and a professor .
he is the editor of the french journal `` les cahiers de l'orient '' -lrb- notebooks from the east , a quarterly devoted to the near east -rrb- , is the president of the cerpo centre d'études et de réflexions sur le proche-orient and a former professor of international relations at the school celsa -lrb- sorbonne university -rrb- .
he is now the president of the ileri international relations school -lrb- institut libre d'etude des relations internationales -rrb- .
in his book `` tunisie , terre de paradoxes '' published in 2006 he was accused of supporting the regime of ben ali in particular by denying its police and authoritarian character .
