Education
A Syrian-Palestinian, Hanafi studied engineering and got his Bachelor of Science in civil engineering from Damascus University (1984). Hanafi moved to social sciences later on and studied sociology from the same university where he got a Bachelor in 1987. He then attended University of Strasbourg where he received a Master"s degree in 1989 under the supervision of Philippe Breton.
In 1994, Hanafi finally got a Doctor of Philosophy from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, where he wrote his thesis entitled Les ingénieurs en Syrie: Modernisation, technobureaucratie et identité.
