Oussama Cherribi, Date of Birth

Oussama Cherribi

Moroccan-Dutch sociologist and former politician for the right-of-centre VVD party

Date of Birth: 04-Sep-1959

Profession: politician, sociologist

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Oussama (Sam) Cherribi (4 September 1959 in Kenitra, Morocco) is a Moroccan-Dutch sociologist and former politician for the right-of-centre VVD party.
He was member of the Dutch House of Representatives from 1994 to 2002. Cherribi studied literature in his town of birth and philosophy and sociology at the University of Rabat, sociology at the University of Nancy in France and, from 1983 onwards, philosophy and sociology at the University of Amsterdam.
He graduated in 1991, and in 2000, while in office as a Member of the Dutch Parliament, he received his PhD in the social sciences.
His dissertation, "Imams d'Amsterdam.
A travers l'exemple des imans de la diaspora marocaine", received unexpected criticism.Cherribi is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Middle East and South Asian Studies (MESAS) and Associate Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
He also directs the Emory Development Initiative (EDI), which promotes development in low-income countries and works with faculty in Emory's Institute of Human Rights.
Cherribi is often interviewed by news organizations on developments in European and Middle East and North African (MENA) regions, and is an often-invited public speaker. Cherribi’s book In the House of War: Dutch Islam Observed was published in paperback in 2013 by Oxford University Press.
His most recent book is Fridays of Rage: Al Jazeera and the Arab Spring, was published by Oxford University Press in 2017.