Hisham Aidi

Hisham Aidi is a lecturer at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. He is author most recently of Rebel Music: Race, Empire and the New Muslim Youth Culture, winner of the 2015 American Book Award.

May 30, 2019

How One Man Survived Syria’s Gulag

Like thousands of others, Omar Alshogre was repeatedly tortured in Bashar al-Assad’s prisons—but unlike so many, he got out. Now he’s telling the world about the regime’s industrial-scale brutality.

Hisham Aidi
AfricaJuly 13, 2017

Is Morocco Headed Toward Insurrection?

The northeastern Rif, Berber heartland and site of the 1920s Rif Republic, is on fire—and the protests are spreading.

Hisham Aidi
HistoryJuly 12, 2016

The Political Uses of Malcolm X’s Image

For Muslim youth, interest in the black freedom movement is part of a larger turn toward an American conception of race—it fills a political void and offers a sense of belonging. But at what cost?

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Hisham Aidi

May 30, 2019

Like thousands of others, Omar Alshogre was repeatedly tortured in Bashar al-Assad’s prisons—but unlike so many, he got out. Now he’s telling the world about the regime’s industrial-scale brutality.

AfricaJuly 13, 2017

The northeastern Rif, Berber heartland and site of the 1920s Rif Republic, is on fire—and the protests are spreading.

HistoryJuly 12, 2016

For Muslim youth, interest in the black freedom movement is part of a larger turn toward an American conception of race—it fills a political void and offers a sense of belonging. But at what cost?