Zaydoun Hajjar

Zaydoun Hajjar is a Palestinian researcher and PhD candidate in Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, alongside his work at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS). With a background in Migration Studies and Sociology, his research focuses on cultural production, music, and migration within the context of colonial relations, structures, and capitalist markets. His current PhD research is rooted in the experiences of Mashriqi musicians from Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, and Jordan who are currently based in Berlin, and explores how the cultural structures around them shape their cultural agency.