Hammoudi, Abdellah

Abdellah Hammoudi was born in El Kelaa des Sraghna, Morocco. Educated at the University of Rabat and the Sorbonne, he joined the faculty of Princeton University in 1991 as a professor of anthropology; in 1995-2004 he was also director of Princeton's Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia. there. His books include "The Victim and Its Masks" (1993) and "Master and Disciple "(1997). He and his wife, Miriam Lowi, and their two children divide their time between Princeton and his native Morocco.