(Informed Comment) – In North Africa, leftovers of “Arab Spring” protests have entered their ninth year. In Morocco, the last few years have been marked by a wave of anti-government protests throughout the country since the “Arab Spring”: the Rif hirak (movement) in the north decrying economic and social injustice; Zagora’s “thirst protests” in the […]
Hsain Ilahiane
Hsain Ilahiane is Professor & Head, Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures at Mississippi State University. As an applied socio-cultural anthropologist, his research endeavors deal with an array of themes from small-scale oasis farming through international migration and resource management to information and communication technologies for development. He has carried out his research in Northern and Sub-Saharan Africa, specifically in Morocco, Uganda, Kenya and South Africa, and his areas of theoretical interest are globalization, development and information and communication technologies, and political ecology.
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