Education:
Ph.D. in Social Anthropology, The University of Texas at Austin,
1997
M.A. in Social Anthropology, Yarmouk University, Jordan, 1988.
B.A. in Journalism and Mass Communication (graduation with honor),
Yarmouk University, Jordan, 1984.
Selected Publications and Activities:
Remaking the Modern: Space, Relocation, and the Politics of Identity
in a Global Cairo. (Spring 2002) Berkeley: The University of California
Press.
Co-editor (with Hania Sholkamy) Creating Identity and Well-Being:
Studies on health, fertility, and the body from Egypt. (forthcoming)
Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press (forthcoming).
"Keeping Him Connected: Labor Migration and the Production
of Locality in Cairo, Egypt," City and Society, 1999.
"The Visual Re-Making of Urban Space: Relocation and the
Use of Public Housing in `Modern' Cairo," Visual Anthropology,
Vol. 10, 1998.
"Re-Imagining the Global: Relocation and Local Identities
in Cairo," Space, Culture and Power: New Identities in Globalizing
Cities, ed. by Ayse Oncu and Petra Weyland. London: ZED Books,
1997.
Teaching and Research Interests:
Globalization/transnationalism; displacement and relocation;
the social construction of space; urban anthropology; anthropological
theories; history of ethnography; contemporary Islamic practices;
religious identity; gender inequalities; anthropology of the body;
Middle East and North Africa, Egypt and Jordan.
Courses and Seminars Taught:
Ethnography: Theory and Practice
Cultures of the Middle East
Islam in Global Context.
Gender and Sexuality in Islam
Comparative Perspectives on the Body
Globalization and the Production of Locality
Globalization and Culture
Urban Ethnographies
Cities, Spaces, and Power
Culture, Power, Islam
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