CURRICULUM VITAE

FADWA EL GUINDI, Ph.D.

 

       University

http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~elguindi/

  

        Research Office

 El Nil Research

elguindi@usc.edu

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DEGREES

BA - The American University in Cairo - Political Science - 1960

Ph.D. - University of Texas, Austin - Anthropology - 1972

LANGUAGES

Written Arabic, Spoken Arabic, English, French, Spanish

ACADEMIC POSITIONS & AFFILIATION

 

   2006 - present    Distinguished Professor of Anthropology & Head, Dept. of Social Sciences,  University of     Qatar,  Doha,  Qatar

   2005-2006        On Research Leave from the Univ of Southern California

   2004-2005        Visiting Professor of Anthropology, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies

                           Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

   2001                Visiting Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara

   1996-present    Adjunct Full Professor, Dept Anthropology, University of Southern California

   1995-96           Center Fellow, Center for Near Eastern Studies, UCLA

   1982-85           Visiting Professor, Anthropology, University of Southern California

   1985                King Faisal Chair in Islamic Studies, School of Religion, University of Southern California (finalist but declined)

   1981-82            Visiting Fulbright Professor,  'Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

   1981-present    Retiree, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles    

   1972--81          Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

 

Fellow, American Anthropological Association; Fellow, Royal Anthropological Institute

Fellow, Middle East Studies Association; Fellow, American Research Center in Egypt

Associate, Current Anthropology; Member, American Ethnological Society

Member, Society for Visual Anthropology; Member, American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies; Member, Middle East Section, American Anthropological Association

 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Elected member, Nomination Committee, Middle East Studies Association of North America, 1985

Member, Editorial Advisory Council, American Anthropologist, 1990-1994

Editor (Film Reviews), American Anthropologist, 1990-1994

Elected Member, Governing Board, Society for Visual Anthropology, 1989-present

President-Elect, Society for Visual Anthropology (American Anthropological Association), 1993-1994

President, Society for Visual Anthropology (American Anthropological Association), 1994-1996

Past President, Society for Visual Anthropology (American Anthropological Association), 1996-1997

Member, Board of Directors, American Anthropological Association 1993-1995

Member, AAA Administrative Advisory Committee, 1994 - 1995

Member, International Organizing Committee, II International Festival of Ethnological Film & Video, Mundos En Contraste - Reflections On the Mediterranean, Granada, Spain, November 1994

Member, Executive Board, American Anthropological Association, 1994-1996

President-elect, Middle East Section (American Anthropological Association) 1996-1998

President, Middle East Section (American Anthropological Association), 1999-2000

Member, International Advisory Board, Commission for Visual Anthropology, International Union for Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences.

Member, Editorial Board, Field Methods (Journal by Altamira, Sage Publications) 1999-present.

Member, Editorial Board, Visual Anthropology Review, 1999-present.

Member, Program Committee, Middle East Studies Association, 2001

Editor-in-Chief (with co-Editor) of Journal, Contemporary Islam: Dynamics of Muslim LIfe. Springer. (2005-2006).

 

  

 

RESEARCH SPECIALIZATION

Islam & Islamic Movements; Field Methods; Zapotec Culture; Arab Islamic Culture & Society; Visual Ethnography; Arab-American Ethnicity.

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS

Ford Foundation Grant (1967; 1978-1981); Grant, National Science Foundation (1969);Grant, National Institute of Mental Health (1970-71); Fulbright Fellowship (1970-71 awarded but declined); Fellowship, National Institute of Mental Health (1970-72); UCLA Academic Senate Faculty Research Grants (1973; 74; 75; 76; 77; 78; with D. Read 1992-93); UCLA Regents' Summer Faculty Fellowship (1976); Fulbright Senior Research Scholarship in Islamic Civilization (1981-82); Jordanian Government Grant for Travel (U.S./Jordan/ U.S.) and Accommodation to participate in international conference, (Anthropology in Jordan: State of the Art), Amman, Jordan, February 25-28, 1984; Smithsonian Travel Grant U.S./India/U.S., to participate in international conference (Women and Household), February 1985; Smithsonian Research & Filming 1986-87; Travel Grant (LAX/Palermo/LAX), University of Palermo, 1989; City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department Grant (#C-80044), 1989-1990; City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, 1992; Travel Grant (LAX/Agrigento (Sicily)/LAX), Academia Di Studi Mediterranei, Agrigento, Sicily, 1992; Travel Grant (Rome/Granada/Rome), Centro De Investigaciones Etnologicas, Granada, Spain, 1992; Grants to develop Arab-American Ethno-Theater: City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Dept, California Community Foundation Brody Arts Fund, NSCP County Music and Performing Arts Commission 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996.

 

PROFESSIONAL HONORS & AWARDS

KEYNOTE ADDRESS & DISTINGUISHED LECTURES 

       

     

      INVITED PUBLIC LECTURES (select)

 

Pembroke Center, Brown University, 2003

 

SELECT INVITED INTERNATIONAL LECTURES

Social Organizational Aspects of the Contemporary Islamic Movement in Egypt, Social Research Center, The American University in Cairo; Aspects of the Contemporary Islamic Movement in Egypt, American Research Center in Egypt, Cairo, Egypt; Aspects of the Contemporary Islamic Movement in Egypt, Cultural Affairs Lecture Series, The American Embassy, Cairo, Egypt; al‑Islam al‑Badil wa Thahirat al‑Tahaggub al‑Mu'asira fi Misr (Alternative Islam and the Contemporary Phenomenon of Veiling in Egypt). Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University, Alexandria (in Arabic); al‑Nisa'iyya wal‑Haraka al‑Islamiyya al‑Mu'asira: Ru'ya Tahliliyya (Feminism and the Contemporary Islamic Movement: An Analytical View) Department of Sociology, 'Ain Shams University, Cairo (in Arabic); Dur al‑Mar'a al‑Misriyya wa Makanatuha fi Thil al‑Tahaggub al‑Mu'asir (The Role & Status of the Egyptian Woman in the Context of Contemporary Veiling), Faculty of Arts, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt (in Arabic); El Sebou' As a Rite of Passage in Egyptian Individual Life‑Cycle. Institut fur Volkerkunde, University of Munich, Germany, January 1980; El Sebou' As a Rite of Passage in Egyptian Individual Life-Cycle; American Research Center in Egypt, Cairo, October 1987;

Notions of Identity, Space, and Work in Arab Culture: Implications for Women, Institute of Development Studies, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, October 19, 1988; Visual Ethnography - A Three-Day Seminar, Universita Di Palermo, Laboratorio Antropologico, Sicily, 1991; Museological Assessment from Ethno-Anthropological Perspective, Three-Day Seminar, Accademia Di Studi Mediterranei, Agrigento, Sicily, 1992;

Commentator on Ethnographic Film, Muestra de Cinq Etnologico de America Y Andalcêa, Granada, Spain, September 1992; Womanhood, Feminism, & Islam, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, November 1992; Charting Content, Freezing Structure, Center for Ethnological Research "Angel Ganivet" of the Diputacion Provincial De Granada, Granada, Spain, November 1993; Traditional Culture Series, Filmoteca de Andalucia, Cordoba, Spain, November 1993.

 

SELECT RECENT

 

 

 

INVITED INTERNATIONAL LECTURING TOUR

(Senior Fulbright Fellow in Islamic Civilization)

 

Yemen

Why Islam is Misunderstood in the United States. Shari'a College San'a University,

San'a, Yemen (in Arabic)

Family & Kinship, Department of Sociology, San'a University, San'a, Yemen (in Arabic)

Islam and Women, Shari'a College, San'a University, San'a, Yemen (in Arabic)

Kuwait

Status of Women in Arab‑Islamic Tradition, al‑Fatat Club, Kuwait (in Arabic)

Lahore, Pakistan

Is There An Islamic Alternative? The American Cultural Center

Liberal Feminism vs. Islamic Feminism: A Comparison of Issues, The American Cultural

Center

Islamabad, Pakistan

Status of Women in Egypt and Arab‑Islamic Tradition, Quaid‑i‑Azam University

Status of Women in Egypt and Arab‑Islamic Tradition, Women's Division, Cabinet

Secretariat

Karachi, Pakistan

Liberal Feminism vs. Islamic Feminism: A Comparison of Issues, Holiday Inn

Conference Room

Status of Women in Egypt and Arab‑Islamic Tradition, All Pakistan Women's Association

Headquarters

Is There an Islamic Alternative? Quaid‑i‑Azam Academy

Dacca, Bangladesh

Liberal Feminism vs. Islamic Feminism, USICA Bicentennial Hall

Status of Women in Egypt and Arab‑Islamic Tradition, Dacca University, Department of

Islamic History and Culture

Values Shared by Islam and the West, Islamic Foundation

 

 

INVITED PUBLIC/FOREIGN POLICY-RELATED PARTICIPATION

 

 

 
PUBLICATIONS

 

VISUAL

 

  1. El Sebou': Egyptian Birth Ritual, 27-minute 16mm. color, funded by a Grant from the Smithsonian Institution, and sponsored by the Office of Folklife Programs, Smithsonian Institution. (Egyptian Celebration of Life Series) El Nil Research, 1986

  2.  El Moulid: Egyptian Religious Festival, 38-minute 16mm. color, funded by a Grant from the Smithsonian Institution. (Egyptian Celebration of Life Series 2). El Nil Research, 1990.

  3.  Ghurbal, 30-minute 16mm. color, funded by a Grant from the Smithsonian Institution. (Egyptian Ceremonial Crafts Series 1). El Nil Research, 1995.

  4.  Mahjar, (an experiment in community ethno-theater), project funded by City Of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department and County of Los Angeles Music and Performing Arts. (Ethno-theater Series 1). El Nil Research, in progress.

  5. The Wedding of Nevine (Al-Jaliya Series on Arab-America), in progress.

  6.  Pizza or Kushari (Al-Jaliya Series on Arab America), in progress.

 

PRINT

 

BOOKS (Monographs, not edited volumes)

 

7.                   Life-Crisis Rituals among the Kenuz. Cleveland: Case Western Reserve University Press (with C. Callender), 1971.

8.                  Religion in Culture. Dubuque, Iowa: Wm. C. Brown, 1977.

9.                  Religion in Culture di Fadwa El Guindi, translated into Italian by Loredana Zichichi. UniversitaDegli Studi Di Palermo. Facolta di Lettere e Filosofia, 1990.

10.               The Nature of Belief Systems: A Structural Analysis of Zapotec Ritual. Doctoral Dissertation (1972). HRAF Monographs, New Haven, Connecticut: Human Relations Area Files, 1980.

11.       The Myth of Ritual: A Native's Ethnography of Zapotec Life-Crisis Rituals. Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press, 1986.

12.       Veil: Modesty, Privacy, and Resistance. Berg Publishers. 1999 [2000, 2003].

13.        Veil: Modesty, Privacy, and Resistance.  Indonesian Version, 2003.

14.        Visual Anthropology: Essential Method and Theory. Walnut Creek, California, 2004.

15.       By Noon Prayer:  The Rhythm of Islam. Berg Publishers (in production).

 

 

RESEARCH ARTICLES

 

16.                Ritual and the River in Dahmit, Nubia. In Contemporary Egyptian Nubia: A Symposium of the Social Research Center, the American University in Cairo (Dar el-Thaqafa, Aswan, 1964), Volume II. Robert A. Fernea, editor. New Haven, Connecticut: Human Relations Area Files, pp. 239-256, (1966).

17.               The Internal Structure of the Zapotec Conceptual System. Journal of Symbolic Anthropology l (l): 15-34 (1973).

18.               Dialectics in Zapotec Thinking (with H. Selby). In Meaning in Anthropology. Keith Basso & Henry A. Selby, editors. New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, pp. 181-196 (1976).

19.                 The Structural Correlates of Power in Ritual. In The Anthropology of Power. Raymond Fogelson & Richard N. Adams, editors. New York: Academic Press, pp. 229-307 (1).

22.                 Lore and Structure: Todos Santos in the Zapotec System. Journal of Latin American Lore 3(1): 3-18 (1977).

21.                   Comment on Brideprice Reconsidered, by Gideon M. Kressel. Current Anthropology18 (3): 453-454 (1977).

22.               The Angels in the Nile: A Theme in Nubian Ritual. In Nubian Ceremonial Life: Studies in Islamic Syncretism and Cultural Change. John G. Kennedy, editor. Cairo & Berkeley: The American University in Cairo Press & The University of California Press, pp. 104-501 (1978).

23.               Metaphor, Transformation, and Knowledge: From Mind to Social Use. American Ethnologist 6(1): 149-155 (1979).

24.               Mathematics in Structural Theory. Current Anthropology 20(4): 761-782 (1979) (with D. Read).

25.               Reply to Comments on Mathematics in Structural Theory. Current Anthropology20 (4): 782-790 (1979) (with D. Read).

26.                That Symbols `Mean Or Not Mean` Is Not The Question: Reply to Sapir. American Ethnologist 7(1): 187-190 (1980).

27.                Reply to On Mathematics in Structural Theory. Current Anthropology 21(3): 389-391 (1980) (with D. Read).

28.                   Veiling Infitah with Muslim Ethic: Egypt's Contemporary Islamic Movement. Social Problems 28(4): 465-485(1981).

29.                   Some Methodological Uses of Structural Analysis for Ethnography: Concrete Fieldwork Illustrations. In Proceedings of the Symposium 'The Future of Structuralism'. IUAES Intercongress, April 23-25, 1981, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (1981).

30.                   Internal and External Constraints on Structure. In The Logic of Culture: Advances in Structural Theory and Methods. Editor, Ino Rossi. New York: J. F. Bergin Pubs., Inc. pp. 176-195 (1982).

31.                The Emerging Islamic Order: The Case of Egypt's Contemporary Islamic Movement. Journal of Arab Affairs 1(2): 245-262 (1982).

32.                   Veiled Activism: Egyptian Women in the Islamic Movement. Peuples Mediterraneans (Special Issue: Femmes de la Mediterranee 22-23: 79-89 (1983).

33.                   Some Methodological Considerations for Ethnography: Concrete Fieldwork Illustrations. In The Future of Structuralism. Jarich Oosten & Arie de Ruijter, editors. Germany: Edition Herodot, pp. 95-125 (1983).

34.                   The Emerging Islamic Order: The Case of Egypt's Contemporary Islamic Movement. Reprinted in Political Behavior in the Arab States. Editor, Tawfic Farah. Colorado: Westview Press, pp. 55-65 (1983).

35.                   The Status of Women in Bahrain: Social and Cultural Considerations. In Bahrain and the Gulf: Past Perspectives and Alternative Futures. J. B. Nugent and T. H. Thomas, editors. Sydney: Croom Helm Ltd., pp. 75-95 (1985).

35.                   The Egyptian Woman: Trends Today Alternatives Tomorrow. In Women in the World: 1975-1985 The Women's Decade. L. Iglitzin and R. Ross, editors. Santa Barbara, California: Clio Press, pp. 225-242 (1986).

36.                From `Syrian Peddler` to Arab-American: Assimilation vs. Ethnic Consciousness. Journal of American Ethnic History 7 (2): 69-71, 1988.

37.                   Das islamische Kleid 'al-hidschab'. In Pracht und Geheimnis: Kleidung und Schmuck aus Palastina und Jordanie. G. Volger, K. v. Welck, & K. Hackstein, editors. Koln: Rautenstrauch- Joest-Museum der Stadt Koln, pp.164 -167, 1987.

38.                   The Making of El Sebou'. Visual Anthropology I(4): 499-507, 1988.

39.                   El Sebou': Film Study Guide. El Nil Research Publication Series 1. Los Angeles: El Nil Research, 1990.

40.                   On Making An Ethnographic Film On Egypt: El Sebou': Egyptian Birth Ritual. MERA Forum XIII (1): 11-17, 1990.

41.               Aspects of Arab Gulf Culture and Society. Placentia Library Project: Gulf Arab States, Beyond Camels, Oil, and Sand Dunes. California Council for the Humanities & El Nil Research Publication Series 2. Los Angeles: El Nil Research, 1991.

42.               Images of Domination, Voices of Control. International Documentary: Journal of nonfiction film and video, Spring 1991.

43.                   _________. Reprinted in MERA Forum XIV (1): 3, 1991.

44.                   _________. Reprinted in CVA Review: Revue de la Commission d'anthropologie visuelle, Spring 1991.

45.                _________. Reprinted in The Arab American Magazine (The Publication of Arab American TV) I(5), 1991.

46.                _________. Reprinted as War 'Game' Casts Iraqis as Losers in Media and Values, Fall 1991.

47.                   Charting Content, Freezing Structure: A Methodological Base for Visual Ethnography. Anthropological Film and Video in the 1990s. Jack R. Rollwagen, editor. Brockport, NY: The Institute, Inc., 1993.

48.                   El Sebou': Film Study Guide. El Nil Research Publication Series 1. Los Angeles: El Nil Research, revised 1994, 1996.

49.                   Mawlids. The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, 1995.

50.                   Hijab. The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, 108-111,1995.

51.                Voice of Islam, Experience of Muslims: The Television Series, Review of Living Islam. Anthropology Today 11:1 pp. 24-26, 1995.

52.               Shades of Los Angeles: From Albums to Archives - The Middle Eastern Project. The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs XV (1): 61,104, 1996

53.               From Pictorializing to Visual Anthropology. In Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology. H. Russell Bernard, editor. Altamira Press, Sage Publications, 459-511,1998.

54.                Veiling Resistance. Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture 3(1): 51-80, 1999.

55.                   Veiled Men Private Women in Arabo-Islamic Culture. ISIM Newsletter 4, 1999.56.                   Review Essay of Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East, Lila Abu-Lughod, ed., Princeton: Princeton University Press (1998), ix, 300 pp. Journal of Political Ecology: Case Studies in History and Society, Volume 6, 1999.

57.               Cultural Anthropology. 2001 Britannica Book of the Year, 153-154, 200158.               Beyond Picturing Culture: A Critique of a Critique. American Anthropologist 103(2):1-6, 2001

59.               Cultural Anthropology. 2002 Britannica Book of the Year, 159-160, 2002.

60.               Arab & Muslim America: Emergent Scholarship, New Visibility, Conspicuous Gap in Academe. American Anthropologist, September 2003.

61.                 U.N. Should Act to Protect Muslim Women?. In Anthropologists In the Public Sphere: Speaking Out on War, Peace, and American Power. Roberto J. Gonzalez, editor. University of Texas Press, 2004.

62.                   Djellaba. Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion. Steele, Valerie, editor. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons. 2005

63.                   Kaffiyeh. Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion. Steele, Valerie, editor. .  Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons. 2005.

64.                   Hijab. Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion. Steele, Valerie.  editor. Detroit: Charles Scribners Sons. 2005.

65.               Confronting Hegemony, Resisting Occupation. In Resisting Racism & Xenophobia: Global Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Human Rights. Harrison, Faye, editor. Walnut Creek: Altamira Press, 251-168, 2005.

66.                   Regreso al futuro de la Antropolog’a Visual. In Culturas, Poder y Mercado, Juan Agudo Turrico, editor. Sevilla: Fundaci—n El Monte,  59-88, 2005.

67.        An Enduring International "Gendered Resistance, Feminist Veiling, Islamic Feminism".  The Ahfad Journal, Women and Change 22 (1): 53-78, 2005.

68.                   Had it been your face would you leave it as is? Female circumcision among the Nubians of Egypt. In Female Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives. Rogaia, A, M. ed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 27-46, 2006.

69.        Shared Knowledge, Embodied Structure, Mediated Process: The Case of the Zapotec of Oaxaca.  Conference Proceedings, Cognitive Science 2006,  28th Annual Conference of Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada,  July 26-29, 2006.

            http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/CSJarchive/Proceedings/2006/docs/p2646.pdf

70.       Private Reflections.  IJMES (International Journal of Middle East Studies), 39, 172-173, 2007.

71.        Back to the Future of Visual Anthropology: From Rock Art, to Visual Ethnography, to PowerPoint In Memories of the Origins of Ethnographic Film. Engelbrecht, Beate, editor. Frankfurt, M., et. al. Peter Lang Verlag 437-458, 2007.

72.        Beyond Private-Public: A Critique. Proceedings Arab Women: Past and Present: Participation and Democratization, Doha, Qatar,  March 3-5, 2006. (in production)

 

 

REVIEW ARTICLES (Books/Films)

 

73.                  Review of Kinship and Modernization in Mediterranean Society, edited by J. G. Peristiany. The Center for Mediterranean Studies, 1976. American Anthropologist 7(3): 68-688 (1977).

74.                  Review of Beyond the Veil: Male and Female Dynamics in a Modern Muslim Society, Fatima Mernissi. Massachusetts: Schenkman Publishing Company, 1975. Sociology and Social Research 62(3): 499-501 (1978).

75.                   Review of Aith Waryaghar of the Moroccan Rif: An Ethnography and History, David M. Hart. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology (55), edited by Colin M. Turnbull. Arizona: The University of Arizona Press, 1976. American Anthropologist 81(4): 936-938 (1979).

76.                  Review of Le Prophete et Pharaon: Les Mouvements Islamistes dans l'Egypte Contemporaine, Gilles Kepel. Paris: Editions La Decouverte, 1984. International Journal of Middle East Studies 18 (1): 100-104 (1986).

77.                  Review of Family in Contemporary Egypt, Andrea B. Rugh. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1984.American Ethnologist.

78.