Join us on Thursday, November 10, 2005, 14:30–16:00 GMT in a Live Dialogue with Patrick Haenni. He will be talking to us on:
Angry Suburbs in France: Why Now?
It seems that the social divisions in France inspire the rioters there.
Is the current scene a manifestation of the failure to eliminate growing economic inequality?
Does France have new social questions that need new answers?
Is the violence a wake–up call for all of Europe? Do the social divisions in today's France run along ethnic and religious lines?
Patrick Haenniwas born on 1968. He has a PhD in political sciences on youth and politics in Imbaba, Cairo. He received an award for the best PhD thesis in French on the Muslim world, 2001.
He did several studies on institutionalization of Islam in Switzerland; Islamization in Egypt and the development of a new non-Islamist religious discourse (model of Amr Khaled); the state and suburbs in Khartoum, Sudan; and the relationship between the Moroccan bourgeoisie and Sufism.
He has written several books including
Post Islamism, with Olivier Roy (1998)
Non-Submissive Quarters (L'ordre des Caïds, Paris: Karthala, 2005)
Building a Market-Friendly Islam, the Other Conservative Revolution (L'islam de marché, l'autre révolution conservatrice, Paris: Le Seuil, 2005)
He occupied the following positions until 2004:
Journalist in Al-Ahram Hebdo (1995-1996)
Working with the International Committee of the Red Cross on several missions in Bahrain, Algeria, Polisario Front, Yemen (1998- 2000)
Researcher in the French CEDEJ research center in Cairo (2001–2004)
