Anthropology of the Middle East

Editor: Soheila Shahshahani, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran

Call for Papers: Art in the Middle East

Anthropology of the Middle East is available online

Recent political events have shown an alarming lack of awareness in western countries of life in the Middle East. Anthropologists, trained in analysing local discourses and social actions and their socio-political and historical contexts, play an important role in making social and cultural developments in the Middle East more comprehensible to a wider world.

This peer-reviewed journal provides a forum for scholarly exchange between anthropologists and other social scientists working in and on the Middle East. The journal's aim is to disseminate, on the basis of informed analysis and insight, a better understanding of Middle Eastern cultures and thereby to achieve a greater appreciation of Middle Eastern contributions to our culturally diverse world.

Anthropology of the Middle East is published twice a year, in the spring and autumn. Issues are often themed and on occasion guest edited. Each issue contains articles on specific research projects and outcomes on Middle Eastern topics. A section titled ‘Notes from the Field’ features research in progress. Book reviews and shorter reports on books, films and conferences are also included.

Subjects: Anthropology, Middle Eastern Studies

Current Issue

Volume 6 • Issue 2 • Winter 2011

Editorial: Rural Anthropology of the Middle East
Soheila Shahshahani and Christian Bromberger, co-editors

ARTICLES

The Ethos of Progress in a Village in Iran
Reinhold Loeffler

La cage et le site web: De quelques transformations contemporaines
des villages
Benoît Fliche

Aliabad of Shiraz: Transformation from Village to Suburban Town
Mary Elaine Hegland

The Reshaping of Cairo’s City of the Dead: Rural Identity versus Urban Arena in the Cairene Cultural Narrative and Public Discourse
Anna Tozzi Di Marco