Anaheed Al-Hardan

Arcapita Visiting Professor in Modern Arab Studies (Spring 2018)

Anaheed Al-Hardan is an assistant professor of sociology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies at the American University of Beirut.

Her research is concerned with coloniality and resistance in relation to counter-memory, decolonial knowledges and south-south thought in the Arab World, and has appeareed in the Journal of Palestine Studies, Qualitative Inquiry, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and the Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies. She is the author of the award-winning Palestinians in Syria: Nakba Memories of Shattered Communities (Columbia University Press, 2016), joint winner of the 2016 Academic Book Award at the London Palestine Book Awards. See here for a list of selected publications.

Her current book project examines Arab decolonial theory within the context of south-south philosophies of liberation and decolonization. At the MEI she is teaching a graduate course "The Decolonial Turn and West Asia".