Background
Hannoum, Abdelmajid was born on December 25, 1960 in Meknes, Morocco. Arrived in the United States, 1991. Son of Hamani Hannoum and Tamou Adib.
2016
(Under French colonial rule, the region of the Maghreb eme...)
Under French colonial rule, the region of the Maghreb emerged as distinct from two other geographical entities that, too, are colonial inventions: the Middle East and Africa. In this book, Abdelmajid Hannoum demonstrates how the invention of the Maghreb started long before the conquest of Algiers and lasted until the time of independence, and beyond, to our present. Through an interdisciplinary study of French colonial modernity, Hannoum examines how colonialism made extensive use of translations of Greek, Roman, and Arabic texts and harnessed high technologies of power to reconfigure the region and invent it. In the process, he analyzes a variety of forms of colonial knowledge including historiography, anthropology, cartography, literary work, archaeology, linguistics, and racial theories. He shows how local engagement with colonial politics and its modes of knowledge were instrumental in the modern making of the region, including in its postcolonial era, as a single unit divorced from Africa and from the Middle East.
https://www.amazon.com/Invention-Maghreb-Between-Africa-Middle/dp/1108838162/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Hannoum&qid=1618894914&sr=8-1
2021
(This book considers secularism and its narrative expressi...)
This book considers secularism and its narrative expressions. It shows how secularism is articulated and transmitted ubiquitously within state institutions and
https://www.routledge.com/Secular-Narrations-and-Transdisciplinary-Knowledge/Hannoum/p/book/9781032073026
2023
anthropologist educator historian researcher writer
Hannoum, Abdelmajid was born on December 25, 1960 in Meknes, Morocco. Arrived in the United States, 1991. Son of Hamani Hannoum and Tamou Adib.
Bachelor, University Fez, Morocco, 1983. Master of Arts, University Fez, Morocco, 1985. Doctor of Philosophy with honours, University Paris, 1991.
Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, New Jersey, 1995.
Research assistant Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1996—1998. Visiting assistant professor New School for Social Research, New York City, 1998—1999. Fellow Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1999—2000.
Faculty in anthropology, Simon's Rock College, Great Barrington, 2000-2006. Visiting scholar, department of anthropology, Columbia University, New York City, 2003—2004. Professor of anthropology, the University of Kansas since 2006.
(Under French colonial rule, the region of the Maghreb eme...)
2021(This book considers secularism and its narrative expressi...)
2023Author: Colonial Histories, Post-colonial Memories
Member of American Anthropological Association.