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The collaboration between the U.S. military and anthropologists has been criticized for both political and ethical reasons. According to a recent article in Newsweek, the whole project could end as a fiasco: The implementation of the $40 million project… more »

For Jews, not only food needs to be kosher, the New York Times explains in an interesting article about Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox. There are even kosher mobile phones. You cannot send text messages with them, take photographs or connect to the Internet… more »

I've finished reading Talal Asad's new book On Suicide Bombing. It belongs to the category of books I like most: It challenges common assumptions, makes us think (not so important if you agree with him all the time or not). By showing that the world is m… more »

Voices: Palestinian Women Narrate Displacement is a collection of oral histories recorded by Beirut-based anthropologist and oral historian Rosemary Sayigh. It was published as e-book, devoted to men and women living in Gaza, the West Bank, Jerusalem and… more »

Some weeks ago I wrote a few lines about the book On Suicide Bombing by anthropologist Talal Asad. Among other things, he questions our notions about legitimate violence. On Sunday, the book was reviewed in the New York Times: Asad (...) takes aim… more »

The first Interdisciplinary Conference on the Visual Anthropology of Iran entitled “Images of Culture, Culture of Images” is to be held in Oxford University in September 2007, according to a press release. The two-day conference on the Visual Anthropo… more »

Visual anthropologist Kameel Ahmady has published several new articles at KurdishMedia.com. It looks like he is about to publish a whole book there. It started four weeks ago with part one of Media consumption, conformity and resistance: A visual ethnog… more »

(via Alexandre Enkerli at Disparate) "Excellent", a reader comments Lila Abu-Lughod's article: The Muslim woman. The power of images and the danger of pity and adds: Why do Anthropologists so seldom speak up when it's more important than ever to under… more »