(post in progress) "Strangely, you rarely see anthropologists on the front lines at times like these", anthropologist Maria Teasdale Brodine wrote at anthropology.net on the war in Lebanon nine days ago:
It seems that anthropologists might have the t… more »
Category: "Middle East"
Former professor of anthropology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and peace activist for over 30 years, Jeff Halper has started blogging. In his post "Welcome to an Engaged Anthropologist's Blog" he explains:
My idea for this blog is to to bring… more »
Recent political events have shown an alarming lack of awareness in western countries of life in the Middle East. Anthropologists play an important role in making social and cultural developments in the Middle East more comprehensible to a wider world, s… more »
Security has come to be the overriding issue in every debate about development and immigration issues - and it's part of a worldwide trend which in fact does the complete opposite and helps to create insecurity. That's according to anthropologist Rema H… more »
Priceton University presents a new book which might be an example for good anthropological writing. It's a book about the Hajj-pilgrimage to Mecca by anthropologist Abdellah Hammoudi:
Written in the first person, “A Season in Mecca” reads like a novel… more »
No newspaper in Britain has published the Muhammad-cartoons. "There are some lessons (the British) learned from "The Satanic Verses" that I'm afraid others in Europe still need to learn", anthropologist Pnina Werbner says in an interview with Der Spiegel… more »
No good news: In France, they shut down anthropology, in the US, we see the sell-out of our disciplin: "U.S. analysts are starting to apply anthropological models to trying to understand and fight the Iraq", according to United Press International.
An… more »
by lorenz on Jun 3, 2005 in politics, technology, development empowerment, media, Middle East, internet
Hadi Ansari, OhmyNews International
Only four years have passed since Hossein Derakhshan, Iran's leading blogger and Internet activist, published a guide to making a weblog in Persian. Now the influence of weblogs has spread to every aspect of Iranian… more »
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