Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa: Into the New Millennium

List of Contributors

367 CONTRIBUTORS jon w. anderson is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the Catholic University of America and director of its Islamic World Studies program. He has done research on tribalism in Afghanistan, Islamic cosmology in Pakistan, and Internet pioneering in Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar. He is author of Arabizing the Internet and co-editor of New Media in the MuslimWorld: The Emerging Public Sphere (iup, 2003) and Reformatting Politics: Information Technology and Global Civil Society. pamela chrabieh badine is Associate Research Scholar and Director of International Relations at the University of Montreal (crcipg), and a teaching fellow at Holy Spirit University,Kaslik (Lebanon).She has a doctorate in Sciences of Religions (University of Montreal). She is also an artist, blogger, and author of many publications. dawn chatty is University Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration and Director of the Refugee Studies Centre, Department of International Development,Oxford University.She is the author of Dispossession and Displacement in the Modern Middle East; Dispossession and Forced Migration in the Middle East and North Africa; and Deterritorialized Youth: Sahrawi and Afghan Refugees at the Margins of the Middle East. susanne dahlgren is an Academy of Finland research fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. She is author of Contesting Realities: The Public Sphere and Morality in Southern Yemen, and numerous articles on Islam, law, morality, sexuality, and urban space. 368 Contributors lara deeb is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Scripps College. She is author of An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi'i Lebanon. She is a member of the editorial committee of Middle East Report and the editorial board of the International Journal of Middle East Studies. sherine hafez is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Middle East and Islamic Studies at the University of California, Riverside. She is author of The Terms of Empowerment: Islamic Women’s Activism in Egypt and An Islam of Her Own: Reconsidering Religion and Secularism in Women’s Islamic Movements. sondra hale is Professor Emerita of Anthropology and Women’s Studies and Interim Co-Director of the Center for Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is a founding editor of The Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, author of Gender Politics in Sudan, and co-editor of From Site to Vision: The Woman’s Building in Contemporary Culture. christine hegel-cantarella is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Western Connecticut State University. She contributed an essay to Family Law in Islam: Divorce, Marriage and Women in the Muslim World and has written on legal technologies and kinship in Law, Culture, and the Humanities. cortney l. hughes is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at George Mason University. Her research interests are in medical anthropology, science and technology studies, feminist theory, Islam, and development. She has published articles in Medical Anthropology Quarterly, the Journal of Telemedicine and e-Health, and Military Medicine and through the uc Digital Library. suad joseph is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies and the founding director of the Middle East/South Asia Studies Program at the University of California, Davis. A past president of the Middle East Studies Association, she is general editor of the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures and ewic Online; editor of Intimate Selving in Arab Families: Gender, Self, and Identity and Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East; and coeditor of Women and Power in the Middle East. Contributors 369 charlotte karagueuzian is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (ehess), Paris. Her dissertation focuses on the rise of fine arts in the United Arab Emirates, for which she conducted a qualitative analysis of discourses of local artists, government, and merchants based in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and Sharjah. She is a research associate at the RaoulDandurand Chair in Strategic and Diplomatic Studies at uqam, University of Quebec in Montreal. sebastian maisel is Associate Professor of Arabic and Middle East Studies at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan. His research focuses on social transformation among rural communities and minority groups, for which he conducted field work among the Bedouin tribes in Saudi Arabia, Yezidis in Syria and Iraq, and Dinka slave soldiers from Sudan. He is author of The Customary Law of the Bedouins in Arabia and co-author of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Arab States Today and...