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“Rethinking Multiculturalism, Human Rights, and Social Movements in the Post-Arab Spring Context”

October 24, 2019 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT

A talk by Dr. Taieb Belghazi, Academic Director of the SIT Study Abroad Program – Morocco: Multiculturalism and Human Rights

Taieb BelghaziTaieb earned his PhD in 1993 from the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University, where he was a Chevening scholar. He held a Fulbright postdoctoral scholarship at Duke University and was a member of the UNESCO-sponsored International Panel on Reading for All. He was director of the Centre for Doctoral Studies: The Human and Space in the Mediterranean, and professor of cultural studies and history of the present at the Faculty of Letters in Rabat. He has been visiting professor at universities including Duke; the University of California, Irvine; and the Ferguson Centre for African Studies and Asian Studies at the Open University, England.

Taeb has consulted for projects including the Diaspora as a Social and Cultural Practice and the UNESCO project on reconceptualizing Mediterranean dialogues. He is a member of the editorial boards of Time and Society (England), Current Writing (South Africa), and Al Azmina Al Haditha (Morocco). He has researched and published on the politics of recent uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East and on experiential learning. His publications include Time and Postmodernism; Dialogues Khatibi Weber (editor); and International Education and Global Justice: Rethinking the Politics of Sustainability (co-editor with Said Graiouid).

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Date:
October 24, 2019
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT
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York Room