20 Facts About Farid Hafez

Farid Hafez was born on 23 December 1981 and is an Austrian political scientist and teaches International Relations at William and Mary.

Farid Hafez earned his Habilitation at the University of Salzburg in 2019.

Farid Hafez has published on Islam and the Far-Right for Brookings Institution.

Farid Hafez is a faculty affiliate of the Rutgers University's Center for Security, Rights and Race and a member of the affiliated faculty of the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project at University of California, Berkeley.

Farid Hafez is an affiliated faculty and scholars-member of the Center for Right-Wing Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and the editor of numerous works on Islamophobia.

From 2008 to 2010, Farid Hafez did research at the department of law of religion and culture at the University of Vienna, before he started teaching at the Muslim Teachers Training College in Vienna.

Farid Hafez had taught at the department of Oriental studies at the University of Vienna as well as at the University of Klagenfurt.

Farid Hafez teaches at a number of academic non-universitarian institutions such as the Global Citizenship Alliance.

In 2020, Farid Hafez was awarded the "Islam on the Edges"-price by Shenandoah University's Center for Islam in the Contemporary World.

In 2009, Farid Hafez was awarded was awarded the Bruno Kreisky award of the Karl-Renner-Institute for the political book of the year 2009 for his book 'Islamophobia in Austria'.

Farid Hafez publishes regularly in Austrian and international news media like The Guardian Haaretz, Middle East Eye, Al-Jazeera English, Der Standard and Die Presse.

Farid Hafez is a frequent interview partner for international media, among them BBC, The Washington Post and Democracy Now.

Farid Hafez identifies with what he calls the "racism studies-informed postcolonial approach" in studying Islamophobia.

Farid Hafez's most quoted article is 'Shifting borders: Islamophobia as common ground for building pan-European right-wing unity,' which appeared in the peer-reviewed journal Patterns of Prejudice.

Farid Hafez developed the concept of 'Islamophobic Populism' by synthesizing the concepts of populism, Islamophobia with the help of critical discourse analysis.

The flagship publication, co-edited by Farid Hafez and authored by a collective of more than 40 authors.

Farid Hafez is a dangerous sign of an attempt to silence the free speech and academic freedom of a prominent scholar.

Farid Hafez published two books on Operation Luxor in German, one being an academic anthology that he edited and the other one a memoir-inspired story that contextualized the Operation Luxor in Austria's general atmosphere of Islamophobia.

Shortly after Operation Luxor, Farid Hafez complained about the police search and compared it to the 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom.

Farid Hafez has authored, co-authored or edited over 140 publications, including articles in high-ranking academic journals.