Hisham Aidi

Hisham Aidi is a Moroccan-American political scientist, author, music critic, filmmaker, and senior lecturer in international relations at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. His research interests include comparative race politics, art and social movements, and the political economy of development.

His book Rebel Music: Race, Empire, and the New Muslim Youth Culture on global hip hop was a 2015 winner of the American Book Award.

Biography Aidi was born in Tangier and grew up in its old city.

In 1993, he began his doctoral studies at Columbia University, where he studied under and interacted with scholars such as Manning Marable, Robin Kelley, Mahmoud Mamdani, Edward Said, and Lisa Anderson. While studying at Columbia, Aidi lived in Harlem and worked in journalism and political analysis. After completing his PhD in 2002, he worked at the United Nations. He then lectured at University of Maryland.

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