Raphaël Lefèvre is a Visiting Fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre where he is currently co-leading the project Whose Revolution? Re-assessing the Impact of the 1979 Iranian Revolution on Sunni Islamism in collaboration with Toby Matthiesen. He is also a Research Associate with Aarhus University's The Other Islamists programme as well as a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations of Oxford University. His research is concerned with political, social and security developments in Lebanon and Syria, and more broadly with Sunni as well as Shia Islamist movements and armed groups in the Middle East. 

In 2012-16, he was a Research Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Beirut, where he published extensively on the Syrian Civil War and on Lebanese politics. His PhD thesis which he completed at the University of Cambridge was awarded the Bill Gates Sr Prize and the Best Dissertation Prize of the Syrian Studies Association. He is author of Ashes of Hama: The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria (2013) and Jihad in the City: Militant Islamism and Contentious Politics in Tripoli (2021).