During his stay, he will participate in a roundtable as part of the Research "in Action" Seminar Series. On March 24th, GRITIM-UPF will also host the book launch of his work recently translated into Spanish, Against Symbolic Liberalism: A Plea for Dialogical Sociology. (Preface: Michael Burawoy) (عربي), (Persian), (Turkish), (Spanish) ). He will additionally take part in training activities of the EuroMedMig project.

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Sari Hanafi is a Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies at the American University of Beirut. He served as President of the International Sociological Association (2018–23) and Vice President of the Arab Council for Social Sciences (2015–16). An International Fellow of the British Academy, he was also the Editor of Idafat: The Arab Journal of Sociology (2007–22). His contributions to the field have been recognized with some of the Arab world’s most prestigious academic awards, including the Abdelhamid Shouman Award (2014) and the Kuwait Award for Social Science (2015). In 2019, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the National University of San Marcos, Peru.