Farid Hafez

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Farid Hafez at the presentation of the Bruno Kreisky Acknowledgment Prize 2010

Farid Hafez (born December 23, 1981 in Ried im Innkreis ) is an Austrian political scientist .

Life

Hafez spent his childhood and school days in Upper Austria. From 2002 to 2009 he studied political science at the University of Vienna , where he received his doctorate in the same subject. In 2008 he also graduated with a Master of Science degree in political education from the Danube University Krems and the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt .

Hafez did research as a research assistant at the Institute for Legal Philosophy at the University of Vienna. His dissertation with the title “Islamophobic Populism” (supervisor: John Bunzl ) was published in 2010 by the German publishing house for social sciences Wiesbaden. He is an alumnus of Session 440 of the Salzburg Seminar . Hafez has been a researcher and lecturer at the Political Science Department at the University of Salzburg since 2014 and has been a Senior Research Fellow at Georgetown University since 2017 . In 2019, Hafez completed his habilitation in political science at the University of Salzburg.

Hafez was active in Austria's Muslim youth from 1998 to 2007 .

research

Hafez conducts research in politics and Islam. One of his main subjects is Islamophobia research . Hafez is editor of the yearbook for research on Islamophobia , which has been published since 2010, and Wolfgang Benz is a member of its scientific advisory board . In 2014, as part of a research stay at Columbia University in New York City, he investigated hip-hop as a youth culture exchange between Europe and the USA. He conducts research on Muslim youth movements in Europe.

He is a Senior Research Fellow in the research project 'The Bridge Initiative' at Georgetown University, led by political scientist John Esposito , which focuses on Islamophobia and diversity. He is also one of two editors of the European Islamophobia Report, which will appear annually from 2016.

Teaching

Farid Hafez has been teaching since 2008. From 2008 to 2012 he was at the Institute for Oriental Studies at the University of Vienna. He later taught at the University of Klagenfurt. Since 2009 he has been teaching on the private course for teaching Islamic religion at compulsory schools in Vienna.

He also taught in the field of migration management - migration studies (2012–2015) at Danube University Krems. He was also visiting lecturer at the University of Istanbul, the Istanbul 29 Mayıs Üniversitesi, the Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakarta, the Columbia University in New York. He is also a member of the Affiliated Faculty of the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project at the University of California, Berkeley.

His research on hip-hop and American Islam brought him to the University of Chicago, the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota, the Queensborough Community College in New York, the City University of New York and the Amerikahaus in Vienna as a guest lecturer .

He is also a member of various non-university faculties. He teaches at the Global Citizenship Alliance, which emerged from the Salzburg Global Seminar. In 2015 he also taught at The Ariane de Rothschild Fellowship, as well as at other international educational institutions.

Hafez was a Fulbright Professor in the USA in the 2016/17 academic year. He is also an affiliate faculty member at the Center for Right-Wing Studies at the University of California, Berkeley .

Public statements

Hafez speaks regularly in Austrian daily newspapers such as Der Standard and Die Presse and appears as an expert in Austrian TV talk formats such as ATV am Punkt and Puls 4 Talk of Town . He was interviewed several times on ORF and by international media such as The Washington Post . Hafez regularly publishes guest commentary in Al-Jazeera English . He appeared in the television program Im Zentrum on ORF.

Hafez criticizes that Muslims in Austria are a plaything of politics. He emphasizes that women in particular are affected by the discursive focus on Muslims. In the context of the protests in Charlottesville in 2017, for example, in line with the intersectionality of racism, he emphasizes that racism there is directed equally against blacks, Muslims and Jews. In this sense, he also accused Viktor Orbán of using anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in his campaign against George Soros .

In 2013 he defended the Sunni-Islamist Muslim Brotherhood as “democratic”, which caused astonishment. Hafez sharply criticized the Austrian Islamic Law passed in 2015 . Sometimes it represents a form of “institutionalized Islamophobia” for him. When the Integration Act was passed in 2017, he criticized the discourse of the governing parties on the question of the ban on wearing a headscarf for police officers, public prosecutors and judges. He was heard as an expert for the political party NEOS in the constitutional committee. He also positioned himself in the course of the discussion about Islamic kindergartens and accused the integration department of a problem of racism. In a lengthy interview, he describes political Islam as a relic of the 20th century.

Hafez lectured as a scientist at the "Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe" ( OSCE ) and presented the results of the European Islamophobia Report to the European Parliament and the Council of Europe in 2015 and 2019 .

Awards

As co-editor of the interdisciplinary anthology “Islamophobia in Austria”, he and the Middle East expert John Bunzl received the Bruno Kreisky Award for the Political Book of the Year 2009.

The Austrian culture magazine the gap selected Farid Hafez as one of the 100 Austrians “with a special future”.

criticism

On a scientific level, Hafez was criticized by Armin Pfahl-Traughber, among others, for the - from Pfahl-Traughber's point of view - poorly selective use of the term Islamophobia. This would enable immunization against any criticism of Islam. Hafez's concept of Islamophobia was therefore also rated as politically motivated.

Hafez was personally associated with the political Islam of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Turkish President Erdogan by Heiko Heinisch and Efgani Dönmez . Hafez won a lawsuit against statements by Michael Ley in the first instance. Hafez, for his part, had accused the former Greens and later temporary ÖVP politician Dönmez several times since 2009 with “racism” and “sexism”. Heiko Heinisch, in turn, was criticized by Hafez for his "Islamophobic attitude". Hafez describes Heinisch's criticism of individual Muslim persons and institutions as a "criminalization strategy". Hafez 'book "Feindbild Islam: About the salon ability of racism", published in 2019, was sharply criticized by Heinisch for his "tunnel vision" and as an "ideologically colored book", "which is particularly noticeable through historical errors and omissions".

In October 2019, the European Islamophobia Report published by Farid Hafez and Enes Bayrakli came under heavy criticism. On the one hand, the report was held to be co-edited by the “Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research” (Seta) in Ankara , which has close ties to the Turkish ruling party AKP and “expressly wants to influence public opinion formation and political debates”. On the other hand, it was criticized that the report also denounced many theologically reform-oriented Muslims such as Seyran Ates , Saïda Keller-Messahli or the Münster theologian Mouhanad Khorchide, as well as secular critics of political Islam in Europe such as the Frankfurt professor Susanne Schröter because of their " Islamophobia " and put them into one Row with racists and right-wing extremists. The EU was ultimately accused of contributing around 126,000 euros to the creation and publication of this publication, which Amer Albayati , the president of the Liberal Muslim Initiative Austria, called “propaganda work for Erdoğan”. On November 12, 2019, Saïda Keller-Messahli filed a lawsuit against the authors of the study against their mention in the “European Islamophobia Report”.

The " Wiener Zeitung " gave Farid Hafez the opportunity to speak out against the allegations made against him in connection with the European Islamophobia Report . He did this on December 13, 2019 in a detailed statement, which led to the counter-accusation to the address of his critics: "You stage yourself as a victim to silence criticism of racism".

Thomas Thiel accused Hafez in an article for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , in his "hagiographic writing" about the thought leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood Islamic-political thinkers: An introduction to the history of Islamic-political ideas "[...] not a critical word about anti-Semitism and the Adoration of Hitler by Sayyid Qutb . And neither about Yusuf Al-Qaradawi ... who calls Hitler a just punishment for the Jews “having lost. This can also be explained by the fact that the Seta Foundation , which is close to the AKP, is one of the sponsors of the European Islamophobia Report . Thiel described this report as a "work of art" that renounces reliable empiricism and yet believes it can make reliable statements about Islamophobia.

Fonts

Hafez has published more than 80 fonts.

author

  • Islamophobic populism: mosque and minaret building bans by Austrian parliamentary parties. Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2010 ( dissertation , University of Vienna, 2009).
  • Anas Schakfeh: The Austrian face of Islam. Braumüller, Vienna 2012.
  • Islamic Political Thinkers: An Introduction to the History of Islamic Political Ideas. Peter Lang Verlag, New York / Oxford / Frankfurt / Vienna 2014.
  • My name is Malcolm X: The Life of a Revolutionary. Al Hamra, Vienna 2015.
  • Enemy Islam. About the salon ability of racism. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2019.

editor

  • Islamophobia in Austria. Studienverlag, Innsbruck 2009 (with John Bunzl ).
  • Yearbook for Islamophobia Research. New Academic Press, Vienna since 2010.
  • From the Far Right to the Mainstream: Islamophobia in Party Politics and the Media. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2012 (with Humayun Ansari ).
  • European Islamophobia Report. Since 2016 (with Enes Bayrakli)
  • Young, Muslim, Austrian. New Academic Press / Alhamra, Vienna 2016 (with Reinhard C. Heinisch , Raoul Kneucker and Regina Polak ).
  • Islamophobia in Muslim Majority Societies . Routledge. Francis and Taylor (with Enes Bayrakli).

Articles in professional journals

  • From Jewification to Islamization: Political anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in Austrian politics then and now. In: ReOrient , Volume 4, No. 2, Spring 2019, pp. 197–220.
  • with Rijad Dautovic: Institutionalizing Islam in Contemporary Austria: A Comparative Analysis of the Austrian Islam Act of 2015 and Austrian Religion Acts with Special Emphasis on the Israelite Act of 2012. In: Oxford Journal of Law and Religion , Volume 8, No. 1, February 2019, pp. 28–50 (first published June 11, 2018).
  • Schools of Thought in Islamophobia Studies: Prejudice, Racism, and Decoloniality. In: Islamophobia Studies Journal 4.2 (2018), pp. 210–225.
  • Street-level and government-level Islamophobia in the Visegrád Four countries. In: Patterns of Prejudice , Volume 52, 2018, No. 5, pp. 436-447.
  • with Enes Bayraklı and Léonard Faytre: Engineering a European Islam: An Analysis of Attempts to Domesticate European Muslims in Austria, France, and Germany. In: Insight Turkey , Volume 20, No. 3, Summer 2018, pp. 131–156.
  • with Reinhard Heinisch: Breaking with Austrian Consociationalism: How the Rise of Rightwing Populism and Party Competition have changed Austria's Islam Politics. In: Politics and Religion , Volume 11, No. 3, September 2018, pp. 649-678.
  • Old new Islam politics in Austria? A Post-Colonial Analysis of Austria's Islamic Policy. In: ZfP - Zeitschrift für Politik , 65th volume, 1/2018, pp. 22–44.
  • Between fundamentalism and emancipation. The question of the Muslim subject against the background of anti-Muslim racism / Islamophobia. In: New Practice - Journal for Social Work, Social Pedagogy and Social Policy (special edition: Racism in social work and criticism of racism as a cross-sectional task), special issue 15, 2018, pp. 70-77.
  • The Islam Law in the Context of Islamophobic Discourses: A Policy Frame Analysis of the Policy- Making Process of the Islam Law 2015. In: Juridikum, (2), 2015, pp. 160-165.
  • Disciplining the “Muslim Subject”: The Role of Security Agencies in Establishing Islamic Theology within the State's Academia. In: Islamophobia Studies Journal, Volume 2 (2), 2014, pp. 43–57.
  • with Rijad Dautović: Muslims as second class citizens? A comparative analysis of the draft of a new Islam law 2014 to the remaining religious law. In: Yearbook for Islamophobia Research 2015. 2015, pp. 26–54.
  • Shifting borders: Islamophobia as the cornerstone for buildingpan-European right-wing unity. In: Patterns of Prejudice, Volume 48, No. 5, December 2014, pp. 1–21.
  • Commemoration in the “Islamic year of thought”. On the discursive construction of Austrian Islam as part of the 100th anniversary celebration of the Islamic Law. In: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlands, No. 104 (2014), self-published, Institute for Oriental Studies, Vienna 2014, pp. 63–84.
  • The Essad-Bey State of God. A biography of Muhammad from the perspective of a Jewish convert to Islam with a special focus on the political dimension. In: Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, 13 (2013), pp. 1–21.
  • Islamophobic world conspiracy theories ... and how Obama went from Muslim to Muslim Brother. In: Journal für Psychologie, Vol. 21 (2013), Issue 1, pp. 1–22.

Web links

Commons : Farid Hafez  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  7. ↑ Farid Hafez, Reinhard Heinisch, Raoul Kneucker, Regina Polak: Introduction . In: Farid Hafez, Reinhard Heinisch, Raoul Kneucker, Regina Polak (eds.): Young, Muslim, Austrian. 20 years of Muslim youth in Austria . New Academic Press, Vienna 2016, p. (26-32) 29 .
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  25. ^ Farid Hafez: Ban on minarets: In Austria one is one step further. The Swiss vote for the ban on minarets appalled the elites. In: derStandard.at (comments from others) of November 30, 2009, accessed on July 28, 2011
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  28. ↑ Alexei Korolyov: Austrian bill would ban foreign funding for mosques, imams. In: Washington Post . November 20, 2014, accessed December 2, 2014 .
  29. ^ Farid Hafez: In Austria, the problem is not the far-right party. Al-Jazeera, October 15, 2017, accessed October 24, 2017 .
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  44. ^ OSCE: Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting. OSCE, June 22, 2017, accessed on August 22, 2017 .
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  56. ↑ Process of defamation: Muslim Brotherhood and “mainstream media” . Der Standard, April 24, 2019.
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  59. ↑ wochenblick.at: "Wochenblick" interview with Efgani Dönmez. October 19, 2016. Retrieved September 14, 2017 .
  60. ↑ Farid Hafez: The MJÖ as a projection surface for conspiracy theories . In: Farid Hafez, Reinhard Heinisch, Raoul Kneucker, Regina Polak (eds.): Young, Muslim, Austrian . New Academic Press, Vienna 2016.
  61. ↑ Heiko Heinisch: “Ideological tunnel vision of the 'enemy of Islam'” , mena-watch.com, 10 Dec. 2019
  62. ↑ See for the following: Report sponsored by the EU denounces critics of Islam. Die Welt , Oct. 24, 2019
  63. ↑ Turkish Institute Erdogan's defense unit against liberal Muslims in Berlin. Tagesspiegel , Apr. 4, 2019
  64. ↑ Swiss human rights activist Keller-Messahli is denounced as Islamophobic. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , October 26, 2019
  65. ↑ ILMÖ-Amer Albayati on the so-called Islamophobia Report: “Farid Hafez's work is a propaganda work by Erdogan”. In: ots.at. Initiative Liberal Muslims Austria - ILMÖ, October 24, 2019, accessed on October 28, 2019 .
  66. ↑ "With right-wing extremists in one pot - the Swiss critic of Islam, Saïda Keller-Messahli, is suing a report funded by the EU that describes her as an Islamophobic. She is right ” , Tagesanzeiger , Nov. 13, 2019
  67. ↑ Farid Hafez: “ Discussing racism is necessary in terms of democratic politics ”, Wiener Zeitung, December 13, 2019
  68. ↑ Thomas Thiel: The change of course is an act of strength . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of December 17, 2019, p. 11
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personal data
SURNAME Hafez, Farid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Ried im Innkreis