Hatem Bazian
Hatem Bazian | |
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Bazian in 2009 | |
| Born | Jordan |
| Alma mater | San Francisco State University (B.A., M.A.) University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D.) |
| Occupations | Academic, activist |
| Known for | Co-founding Students for Justice in Palestine, founding American Muslims for Palestine, Islamophobia research, founding Islamophobia Studies Journal |
| Title | Teaching Professor, UC Berkeley; Co-founder, Zaytuna College; President, International Islamophobia Studies Research Association |
Hatem Bazian is a Palestinian-American academic and activist. He is a teaching professor in the Departments of Near Eastern and Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and co-founder and Professor of Islamic Law and Theology at Zaytuna College, the first accredited Muslim liberal arts college in the United States.
Bazian is known for his involvement in Palestinian activism on college campuses. He co-founded the first chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine at UC Berkeley in the 1990s and later founded American Muslims for Palestine in 2006.