Fazil MORADI

Member (South Africa)

Fazil MORADI is visiting associate professor at Faculty of Humanities, University of Johannesburg; associate researcher at the Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences; and affiliated scholar at the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes against Humanity at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, Graduate Center—CUNY. He has also been involved in collaborative research with medical scientists at Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, focusing on the long-term effects of chemical weapons, and convened the Actuvirtual Symposium at Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study in Johannesburg, South Africa. Moradi is the author of Being Human: Political Modernity and Hospitality in Kurdistan-Iraq (Rutgers University Press, January 2024) and the co-editor of the edited volume Memory and Genocide: On What Remains and the Possibility of Representation (Routledge 2017, with Maria Six-Hohenbalken and Ralph Buchenhorst). He is also the editor of several special issues in major journals:Tele-Evidence: On the Translatability of Modernity’s Violence (Critical Studies, 2019, with Richard Rottenburg), and In Search of Decolonised Political Futures: Engaging Mahmood Mamdani’s Neither Settler Nor Native (Anthropological Theory, 2023).