Honorary Doctorate (Doctor Honoris Causa) of the National University of San Marcos, 2019 Research Topics Hanafi has engaged in a wide range of research activities and conducted in-depth research on different topics, including knowledge production, religious discourse and curriculum, migration. Priorly, he focused largely on refugee camps in the Arab world. His current field of expertise encompasses the domains of political sociology, the sociology of knowledge and the sociology of religion. Predominantly ethnographic in nature, Hanafi's research methodology involves participant observation techniques, qualitative interviews, and focus groups, but also more quantitative such as survey and network analysis. His H-Index in Google Scholar is 29 which is considered very high for sociology and his citations are at 5193 (for all years) and 3357 (since 2014). In addition to these longer pieces above, he has published 21 book review (five of which were published in two languages) and 71 op-eds and interviews, mainly in local and regional newspapers, as well as policy reports in Arabic, English and French. Knowledge Production in the Arab World Hanafi has co-authored book with Rigas Arvanitis, Knowledge Production in the Arab World: The Impossible Promise (2015). The book received six reviews and a published debate in al-Mustaqbal al-Arabi between three scholars in the field of knowledge production: Antoun Zahlan, Adnan al-Amin and Mustafa al-Teer. The book addresses the knowledge production crisis in the Arab world, as well as the problem in the translation of knowledge into public awareness and policy. As a result of the book, Hanafi has encouraged the translation of scholarly works into Arabic, in an attempt to revitalize local and regional deliberation on societal issues. Hanafi has observed that Arab Eastern scholars fall into the trap of publishing globally and perishing locally, or publishing locally and perishing globally, thus highlighting the need to bridge the gap between these two trends. Political sociology: Camp governmentality Hanafi's other research interests encompass political philosophy, political sociology, and the sociology of migration, covering different issues related to the Palestinian refugees and diaspora, and beyond. In these fields, Julie Peteet of Louisville University acknowledged in her 2007 article that Hanafi is the first scholar to conceptualize the Palestinians abroad as a Palestinian diaspora. In the same vein, his conceptualization of the camp as a space of exception has been widely cited in academic and policy works. In addition, Hanafi is a research director of the program “Policy and Governance