Dilnur Reyhan, PhD in sociology, teaches at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (Inalco) in Paris. She is the president of the European Uyghur Institute, and director of the bilingual magazine Regard sur les Ouïghour-e-s. Her field of research is mainly identity and nationalism in the Uyghur diaspora, but also gender studies among the Uyghurs.