Full Professor of Sociology at the American University
of Beirut and editor of Idafat: the Arab Journal of Sociology
(Arabic). He is also a member of the Executive Bureau of the
Arab Association of Sociology. He holds a PhD in Sociology
from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
(1994). He has served as a visiting professor at the University
of Poitiers and Migrintern (France), University of Bologna and
Ravenna (Italy) and visiting fellow in CMI (Bergen, Norway).
Hanafi was also the former Director of the Palestinian Refugee
and Diaspora Centre (Shaml) from 2000-2004 and a former senior
research at the Cairo based French research center, Centre
d’études et de documentation économique juridique et sociale
from 1994-2000. He is the author of numerous journal articles
and book chapters on the political and economic sociology of
the Palestinian diaspora and refugees; sociology of migration;
transnationalism; politics of scientific research; civil society and
elite formation and transitional justice. Among his recent books
are: The Power of Inclusive Exclusion: Anatomy of Israeli Rule
in The Occupied Palestinian Territories, edited with A. Ophir
& M. Givoni, 2009, NewYork: Zone Book; The Emergence of a
Palestinian Globalized Elite: Donors, International Organizations
and Local NGOs, edited with L. Taber, 2005; and Pouvoir
et associations dans le monde arabe, edited with S. Bennéfissa,
2002, Paris: CNRS. In addition to his academic work, he has
served as a consultant to the UN, the World Bank, and other
organizations. |
