Mohamed Amer Meziane Author

Mohamed Amer Meziane is a philosopher, historian and performer based in New York. Born in London to Algerian parents, he spent his early childhood in the Middle East and North Africa before settling in France. He then grew up near Paris, thorned between a Muslim Algerian upbringing nurtured by the legacy of Third World Revolutions and the French secular school system in which Arabs were systematically racialized. Initially a musician, he decided to become a philosopher to inquire on the roots of this racial conflict. As a result, he defended a PhD at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and criticized the Western canon from his own perspective. In the aftermath of the Parisian attacks of 2015, his work became a target of the far right and he moved to New York, where he taught for 4 years at Columbia University before joining Brown University as an Assistant Professor.