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Abderrahman Beggar

Professor, Religion and Culture; Fellow at the Tshepo Institute for the Study of Contemporary Africa
abeggar@wlu.ca
Waterloo, Ontario
Faculty of Arts
Abderrahman Beggar is an expert in immigration and mobility, life stories and oral narratives, literature and religion, Muslim minorities, penal colonies and colonial history and transcultural memory and identity.

Areas of Expertise

  • Folklore and Oral Traditions
  • Immigration, Migration and Refugees
  • Islam, Islamophobia

Biography

I hold a PhD in Romance Studies, specializing in Media Discourse, from the University of Paris–Sorbonne. I am also a graduate of the International Academy of Diplomacy and the Centre of Diplomatic and Strategic Studies.

My scholarly work has been translated into Arabic, English, and Spanish, and has been widely reviewed in both academic and public venues. Reviews and critiques of my books and contributions have appeared in journals such as Voix Plurielles. Journal of the Association of French Professors in Canadian Universities and Colleges, The French Review, University of Toronto Quarterly, New Zealand Journal of French Studies, Revista de crítica literaria latinoamericana, International Journal of Francophone Studies, Points: Langues, littératures, civilisations des pays francophones, Research in African Literatures, Postcolonial Text, Symposium, Studi Canadese, Peace Review, Third World Quarterly, Contemporary Sociology, and the Ivorian Journal of Comparative Studies.

Languages

  • Arabic
  • English
  • French
  • Spanish

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