Name: Hisham Aidi

Recipient Year: 2020

Sponsor: ISF Film Grant

Description: A 2020 ISF Film Grantee, Hisham Aidi is a professor who teaches international relations and political economy at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. He has also served as a fellow at Columbia’s Center for Contemporary Black History, editing the journal Souls, and co-directing the University’s second “Muslims in New York” project (2005-2008). He has also worked as a journalist, contributing to various magazines (ColorLines, The New African, Middle East Report), but wrote most regularly for Africana.com, the web magazine of the W.E.B Du Bois Institute for African American Studies at Harvard. He was born in Tangier, Morocco to an Arabic and Berber-speaking family.