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Jaafar Alloul
University of Amsterdam
Occupation
Researcher
Contact
Parkstraat 45
bus 3615
Leuven 3000
Belgium
Discipline
Anthropology
Sub Areas
Middle East/Near East Studies
Gulf Studies
Minorities
Urban Studies
Political Economy
Globalization
Transnationalism
State Formation
Nationalism
Cultural Studies
Colonialism
Ethnic Groups
Ethnography
Arab Studies
Identity/Representation
Energy Studies
Development
Current Events
Islamic Studies
Maghreb Studies
Iranian Studies
Zionism
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Arabic
Hebrew
Theory
World History
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