16 Facts About Ghassan Hage

Ghassan Hage has published several books on immigration, race and refugees in Australia.

Ghassan Hage's mother, born in Santo Domingo, was an Australian citizen and thirty years old when she moved to Lebanon and married Hage's father, Lt Colonel Hamid Hage.

Ghassan Hage obtained his Baccalaureat 2eme Partie as a student of the International College.

Ghassan Hage had enrolled at the American University of Beirut as a pre-med student when the Lebanese civil war erupted.

Ghassan Hage left Lebanon in 1976 and joined the maternal side of the family in Australia.

Ghassan Hage completed a Bachelor of Arts at Macquarie University in 1982, a Diplome de 3eme Cycle and a PhD in anthropology.

Ghassan Hage was at the University of Sydney from 1994 to 2008 before moving to the University of Melbourne.

Ghassan Hage has held a post-doctoral research position and a visiting professorship at Pierre Bourdieu's research centre in Paris at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales which has been of particular importance in his intellectual formation.

On 7 February 2024, Ghassan Hage was laid off by the Max Planck Society due to his comments on the Gaza war.

Ghassan Hage's hearing declined considerably in the 1980s and 1990s.

Ghassan Hage has had one cochlear implant fitted in 2004 and another in 2012.

Ghassan Hage has written and conducted fieldwork on the Lebanese transnational diaspora in Australia, the US, Europe, Canada and Venezuela.

The follow-up Against Paranoid Nationalism is an analysis of certain themes in Australian politics that Ghassan Hage believed were prominent under the government of John Howard.

Ghassan Hage has written on the political dimensions of critical anthropology.

Ghassan Hage was terminated by the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology on 7 February 2024 over his comments on the Gaza war and the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel.

Ghassan Hage had previously expressed support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel.