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Hisham Aidi

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Hisham Aidi
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هشام العايدي
Alma materFranklin & Marshall College (BA)
Columbia University (PhD)

Hisham Aidi is a Moroccan-American political scientist, author, music critic, filmmaker, and senior lecturer in international relations at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.[1][2][3][4][5] His research interests include comparative race politics, art and social movements, and the political economy of development.[6]

His book Rebel Music: Race, Empire, and the New Muslim Youth Culture on global hip hop was a 2015 winner of the American Book Award.[7]

Biography

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Aidi was born in Tangier and grew up in its old city.[3][5] His formative years also included time in Spain, where his father worked.[3] As a teenager, he would frequent Tangier's Dar Gnawa, or the House of Gnawa, where he might see guests such as the saxophonist Archie Shepp or the jazz poet Ted Joans.[5]

When he was 15, he earned a scholarship to study at a boarding school in New Mexico in the United States.[1][2] He then attended Franklin & Marshall College outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the early 1990s, studying political theory and economics.[1][2] He also worked in college radio, where he played raï music and recordings by Abdessadiq Cheqara and Samy Elmaghribi.[2] He wrote an undergraduate thesis entitled "Is Paul Bowles an Orientalist?" about the American writer in Tangier, and gave literary walking tours of Tangier over the summer.[8]

In 1993, he began his doctoral studies at Columbia University, where he studied under and interacted with scholars such as Manning Marable, Robin Kelley, Mahmoud Mamdani, Edward Said, and Lisa Anderson.[2] While studying at Columbia, Aidi lived in Harlem and worked in journalism and political analysis.[2] After completing his PhD in 2002, he worked at the United Nations.[2] He then lectured at University of Maryland.[2]

Publications

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Author

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  • Aidi, Hisham (2014). Rebel music: race, empire, and the new Muslim youth culture. Islamic studies music. New York: Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC. ISBN 978-0-307-27997-2.
  • Aidi, Hisham (2009). Redeploying the state: corporatism, neoliberalism, and coalition politics. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-61159-7. OCLC 226357085.

Editor

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  • Marable, Manning; Aidi, Hisham, eds. (2009). Black routes to Islam. New York, N.Y: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-4039-7781-6.

References

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  1. ^ a b c Mohareb, Esraa (2017-01-16). "A Moroccan Scholar Uncovers Hidden, Connected Histories". Al-Fanar Media. Retrieved 2024-05-15.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Yabiladi.com. "Diaspo #162 : Moroccan academic Hisham Aidi... between art and politics". en.yabiladi.com. Retrieved 2024-05-15.
  3. ^ a b c "Hisham Aidi dépiste le péril jeune". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2015-09-16. Retrieved 2024-05-15.
  4. ^ Maslin, Janet (2014-04-23). "Music Mix: Spirituality and Protest". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-05-15.
  5. ^ a b c Alami, Aida (2021-08-21). "The Struggle to Save a House of Music, and Its Legacy". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-05-15.
  6. ^ "Hisham Aidi". sipa.columbia.edu.
  7. ^ "2015 American Book Awards | Before Columbus Foundation". 2015-07-23. Archived from the original on 2015-07-23. Retrieved 2024-05-15.
  8. ^ Aidi, Hisham (2019-12-20). "So Why Did I Defend Paul Bowles?". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 2024-10-02.