Farid Hafez
Austrian political scientist
Farid Hafez (born 23 December 1981) is an Austrian political scientist and teaches International Relations at William and Mary. He was previously the Class of 1955 Distinguished Visiting Professor of International Studies at Williams College. Since 2017, he has also been a senior researcher at Georgetown University's The Bridge Initiative.
Early life and education
Hafez was born in Ried im Innkreis, Austria on 23 December 1981. After moving to Austria's capital, Vienna, and taking his first degree in political science, he finished his studies and earned his PhD at the University of Vienna in 2009. He earned his Habilitation at the University of Salzburg in 2019.
Academic career
Shortly before submitting his dissertation, in which he analyzed parliamentary debates on the ban of mosques and minarets in two Austrian counties, Hafez and Middle East scholar John Bunzl co-edited the collection Islamophobie in Österreich, published by StudienVerlag in 2009.
Since then, Hafez published widely on Islamophobia. In 2010, he founded the Islamophobia Studies Yearbook In 2015, he created the European Islamophobia Report, which he now edits along with political scientist Enes Bayrakli for the Leopold Weiss Institute, LWI, based in Vienna, Austria. Hafez has also published on Islam and the Far-Right for Brookings Institution.
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