Anthropology of the Middle East
Aims & Scope
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
Anthropology of the Middle East, Spring 2011
Volume 6 • Issue 1 • Spring 2011
Editorial: A Body Response to Urban Middle East
Soheila Shahshahani (Editor)
ARTICLES
Istanbul du début du XXe siècle au prisme eurocentrique : l’urbanisme et la Civilisation selon Ebüzziya Tevfik (1849–1913)
Özgür Türesay
‘You Have Car Insurance, We Have Tribes’: Negotiating Everyday Life in Basra and the Re-emergence of Tribalism
Hayder Al-Mohammad
Saudi Patients’ and Healthcare- Providers’ Divergent Perceptions on Illness and Their Symptoms
Mohamed Harakati, Faissal Shaheen, Hani Tamim, Saadi Taher, Adel Al Qublan, Abdulla Al Sayyari
Nose Aesthetics: Rhinoplasty and Identity in Tehran
Sara Lenehan
The Inscrutable Mystery of Why the Qalin Has still Survived – The Example of Uzbekistan
Rasulova Ziyodakhon
Couples in the Global Margins: Sexuality and Marriage between Egyptian Men and Western Women in Dahab, a Touristic Town in South Sinai
Nadeem Karkabi
NOTES FROM THE FIELD
Days in Cairo: Thoughts from the Midan!
Hania Sholkamy
REPORTS
Books
Conceptualizing Iranian Anthropology: Past and Present Perspectives (2009), Shahnaz R. Nadjmabadi (ed.)Shahla Haeri
Films
Kamal, Mariam Nabil (2009), Le bruit des pas, vidéo, Afghanistan, vidéo, couleur, Ateliers Varan, 24 minutes.Sophie Accolas
Conferences
Central Eurasia: Islam, Culture and Conflict, May 2010, University of Amsterdam, NetherlandsBabak Rezvani