Born on March 1984, in Morocco. Hashas holds a PhD in Political Theory from LUISS University in Rome, with a distinguished dissertation on The Idea of European Islam: Voices of Perpetual Modernity (2013). He also holds an MA in European Studies from LUISS, with a grant from the the European Union DG for Education and Culture (2010), and an MA in Literary-Cultural Studies from Mohamed I University in Oujda, Morocco (2008). Hashas was a research fellow at Babylon Center for the Study of the Multicultural Society in Tilburg, the Netherlands (July-October 2010), and at the Center for European Islamic Thought at the University of Copenhagen (Sept 2011-July 2012). He has taken part in the organization of conferences and seminars, and contributed papers and communications in Morocco, Italy, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, the UK, Denmark, Austria, Hungary, Turkey, Cape Verde Republic, Mexico, and India. Hashas is publishing his papers with the Journal of Muslims of Europe, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, and the Journal of Studia Islamica, besides contributions to edited books. He also contributes opinion articles to web magazines and newspapers in Arabic and English. His academic concerns are the emerging European Islamic thought, Arab-Islamic political thought, and the ongoing socio-political and cultural transformations of the Arab societies.
