Biography Asef Bayat
Asef Bayat is the Academic Director of the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) and the ISIM Chair at the University of Leiden. He has taught sociology and Middle East studies at the American University in Cairo an has held visiting positions at the University of California, Berkeley, Columbia University and the University of Oxford. He is currently program director of an ISIM research program on socio-religious movements and social change in contemporary Muslim societies.
Witte de With organizes in collaboration with V2_ a symposium focusing on the issues debated in the Under Fire mailing list in the period January – April, 2004. The main speakers are John Armitage, Asef Bayat, Susan Buck-Morss (through internet) …Read more
Under Fire is a year-long project initiated by Jordan Crandall that consists of a series of organized discussions that will occur online and in Rotterdam, throughout the year 2004. Co-editors Under Fire I: Asef Bayat, Susan Buck-Morss, Hamid Dabashi, Brian …Read more
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