Hatem Bazian - IISRA President

Hatim Bazian

  • (IISRA President)

    Dr. Hatem Bazian is a Decolonial scholar who centers Islam's epistemology in all his work and examines the contemporary world through a global south lens.  Dr. Bazian is the leading scholar in the Islamophobia Studies field, having founded the Islamophobia Studies Center, Editor-in-Chief of the Islamophobia Studies Journal, co-founder and current President of the International Islamophobia Studies Research Association (IISRA); advised on the 2021, UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief report on Countering Islamophobia/Anti-Muslim Hatred to Eliminate Discrimination and Intolerance Based on Religion or Belief, and contributed to the Carter Center 2018 report, Countering the Islamophobia Industry Toward More Effective Strategies

  • Dr. Bazian authored five books, the latest being Erasing the Human: Collapse of the Postcolonial World and the Refugee-Immigration Crisis, edited 8 volumes of the Islamophobia Studies Journal and hundreds of published articles.

    Dr. Bazian is a senior lecturer in the Departments of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures and Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Bazian is co-founder and former Professor at Zaytuna College, the 1st Accredited Muslim Liberal Arts College in the United States and a senior lecturer in the Departments of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures and Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

    Dr. Bazian between 2002-2007, also served as an adjunct professor of law at Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley.  In addition to Berkeley, Prof. Bazian served as a visiting Professor in Religious Studies at Saint Mary’s College of California 2001-2007 and adviser to the Religion, Politics and Globalization Center at UC Berkeley.

    At the community level, Dr. Bazian is the President of the Northern California Islamic Council, co-founder, and National Chair of American Muslims for Palestine, Chairman of the Board of Muslim Legal Fund for America, and founder and President of Palestine Center for Public Policy.