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Jaafar Alloul
University of Amsterdam
Occupation
Researcher
Contact
Parkstraat 45
bus 3615
Leuven 3000
Belgium
Discipline
Anthropology
Sub Areas
Arab Studies
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Arabic
Colonialism
Cultural Studies
Current Events
Development
Energy Studies
Ethnic Groups
Ethnography
Globalization
Gulf Studies
Hebrew
Identity/Representation
Iranian Studies
Islamic Studies
Maghreb Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Minorities
Nationalism
Political Economy
State Formation
Theory
Transnationalism
Urban Studies
World History
Zionism
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Europe
Gulf
Islamic World
UAE
Specialties
Middle East Studies; Gulf Studies; Urban Anthropol
Languages
Dutch (native)
French (fluent)
English (fluent)
Arabic (advanced)
Moroccan (fluent)
Spanish (advanced)
Hebrew (elementary)
Education
MA | 2014 | Working Group Migration-Gender-Politics | University of Oldenburg, Germany
MA | 2011 | Arabic and Islamic Studies / Middle East Studies | Ghent University, Belgium
BA | 2009 | Arabic and Islamic Studies / Middle East Studies | Ghent University, Belgium
Abstracts
Dubai as Heterotopia: Liminal Notes on the ‘Status Migration’ of European Maghrebi-Muslim Minority Publics to a ‘Cosmopolitan’ City ‘There is no friction here’: Cosmopolitan homeliness, race-blending, and interstitial fields in Dubai