HAMZA ESMILI
حمزة الصميلي
Dia al-Azzawi, My Broken Dream, 2016
I’m an anthropologist of religion based somewhere between Brussels and Casablanca. My work evolves around the themes of collective consciousness, salvation, and the feeling of history. I defended my PhD at the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences in 2021. I am currently a Chargé de recherches F.R.S-FNRS at Université libre de Bruxelles. See more here.
I'm pleased to announce the publication of my book with Éditions Amsterdam on April 18th, 2025. It traces the genealogy of the Muslim problem in France — from the rhetoric of the “banlieues of Islam” to the paradigm of “Islamist separatism” and the policies of counter-radicalization.
