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ABOUT ME
Trained as a political scientist, I also dabble in music and documentary filmmaking.
My latest film project, A Thousand and One Berber Nights is a documentary chronicling the journey of Hassan Ouakrim - a Moroccan dancer and actor - and his unlikely friendshitp with La Mama Theatre founder Ellen Stewart.
I am a contributing editor of Souffles, the Moroccan-based 1960s pan-African magazine, which we relaunched in September 2023.
I also co-founded the Program on African Social Research (PASR). We recently published our collection of essays on comparative racial formations in Africa and the Middle East, and on race and French colonial legacies.
On this site, you will also find dozens of articles on culture and politics that I wrote in the mid-2000s when I worked as a cultural reporter covering youth culture in Harlem, the Bronx and Paris. I have published books on global hip hop (Rebel Music - Empire and the New Muslim Youth Culture, Pantheon 2015), social movements (Black Routes to Islam - edited with Manning Marable, Palgrave 2009), and on neo-liberalism and labor movements in the Global South (Redeploying the State, Palgrave 2008).