Sari HANAFI, Lebanon

Professor of Sociology at the American University of Beirut and editor of Idafat: the Arab Journal of Sociology (Arabic). He is the Vice President for National Associations, of the International Sociological Association 2014-18 and previously member of its Executive Committee 2010-14. Recently he created the “Portal for Social Impact of Scientific Research: Targeting Research in/on the Arab World”. He was the Vice President of the board of the Arab Council of Social Science 2012-16. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France, 1994. He has also 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 a former senior researcher at the Cairo based French research center, Centre d'Etudes et de Documentation Economique, Juridique et Sociale 1994-2000. He is the winner of 2014 Shouman Award and 2015 Kuwait Award for social science. He is the author of numerous books, journal articles and book chapters on the sociology of religion, sociology of (forced) migration; politics of scientific research; civil society, elite formation and transitional justice. Among his recent books are: Knowledge Production in the Arab World: The Impossible Promise (with R. Arvanitis, in Arabic, Beirut: CAUS and in English, Routledge, 2016); From Relief and Works to Human Development: UNRWA and Palestinian Refugees after 60 Years (Edited with L Takkenberg and L Hilal, Routledge, 2014); The Power of Inclusive Exclusion: Anatomy of Israeli Rule in The Occupied Palestinian Territories (Edited with A. Ophir & M. Givoni, 2009, English and Arabic. NY: Zone Book; Beirut: CAUS); The Emergence of A Palestinian Globalized Elite: Donors, International Organizations and Local NGOs (with L. Taber, 2005, Arabic and English); and Pouvoir et Associations dans le Monde Arabe (Edited with S. Bennéfissa, 2002. Paris:CNRS).