Sari Hanafi

Sari Hanafi is currently a professor of sociology and Chair of Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Media Studies at the American University of Beirut, and the editor of Idafat: the Arab Journal of Sociology (Arabic). He is also the 19th president (2018-2022) of the International Sociological Association and Vice-President of the Arab Sociological Association.[1]

Education

A Syrian-Palestinian, Hanafi studied engineering and got his BS in civil engineering from Damascus University (1984). Hanafi moved to social sciences later on and studied sociology from the same university where he got a BA in 1987. He then attended University of Strasbourg where he received a Master's degree in 1989 under the supervision of Philippe Breton. In 1994, Hanafi finally got a PhD from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, where he wrote his thesis entitled Les ingénieurs en Syrie: Modernisation, technobureaucratie et identité.

Career

He has served as a visiting professor at the University of Poitiers and Migrintern, France, University of Bologna and Ravenna, Italy, and a visiting fellow in CMI, Bergen, Norway. Hanafi was also the former Director of the Palestinian Refugee and Diaspora Centre (Shaml)[2] 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 (CEDEJ) from 1994-2000.

In addition to his academic work, Hanafi has served as a consultant to the UN, the World Bank, and other organizations.

Works

Hanafi 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.

Selected books
  • Bayna ‘alamayn. Rijal al-a’mal al falastiniyyin fi al-shatat wa bina al qayan al falastini (Between Two Worlds: Palestinian Businessmen in the Diaspora and the Construction of a Palestinian Entity) (1996) two editions: Cairo, Dar al-Mostaqbal al-arabi, & Ramallah: Muwatin (Palestinian Institute for the Study of Democracy), January (Arabic).
  • La Syrie des ingénieurs. Perspective comparée avec l'Egypte (1997) Paris : Karthala.
  • Entre Deux Mondes. Les hommes d’affaires palestiniens et la construction de l’entité palestinienne (1997) Cairo : CEDEJ.
  • Business Directory of Palestinian in the Diaspora (1998) Jerusalem: Biladi (In English, French and Arabic).
  • Hona wa honaq : nahwa tahlil lil ‘alaqa bin al-shatat al-falastini wa al markaz (Here and There: Towards an Analysis of the Relationship between the Palestinian Diaspora and the Center) (2001) Ramallah : Muwatin, Jerusalem : Institute of Jerusalem Studies (distribution Beirut : Institute of Palestine Studies)
  • (Ed.) Crossing borders, shifting boundaries: Palestinian Dilemmas (2008) American University in Cairo Press.
  • Adi Ophir and Michal Giovanni and S. Hanafi (Ed.) The Power of Inclusive Exclusion: Anatomy of Israeli Rule in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (2009) New York: Zone Books. This book caused some troubles in AUB since he broke with it the red lines of boycotting-Israel policy adopted by the Lebanese state.
  • Are Knudsen and S. Hanafi (Eds.) Palestinian Refugees: Identity, Space and Place in the Levant (2010) Routledge

Selected journal articles
  • Hanafi, Sari (March 2013). "Explaining spacio-cide in Palestinian territory: Colonization, separation, and state of exception". Current Sociology. 61 (2): 190–205. doi:10.1177/0011392112456505.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

References
  1. "ISA Presidents". International Sociological Association. Retrieved 2012-07-25.
  2. Brynen, Rex; El-Rifai, Roula (2007). Palestinian Refugees: Challenges of Repatriation and Development. IDRC. p. xiii. ISBN 9781552502310. Retrieved 8 October 2014.
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