Fadwa El Guindi

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Personal information

Title: 

Professor of Anthropology

Birthyear: 
1941

Contact information (private)

Personal email address: 
fg77@anthro.ucla.edu

Contact information (work)

Company name: 
University of Qatar
Department: 
Anthropology
Address: 
El Nil Research
Work email address: 
fadwa.elguindi@qu.edu.qa
Work webpage: 
http://www.elnil.org

Education

PhD, Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin, 1972

BA, Political Science, American University in Cairo, 1960

Competences

Arab Islamic Culture and Society

Field Methods

Islam and Islamic Movements

Visual Ethnography

Zapotec Culture

Languages: 

Arabic

English

French

Spanish

Jobs

Work history: 

Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, University of Qatar, 2006-Present

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

Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, University of Southern California, 1996-Present

Honorary office and memberships: 

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

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

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

Member, Middle East Studies Association

Productions and works: 

By Noon Prayer: The Rhythm of Islam. Berg Publishers, 2008.

Veil: Modesty, Privacy, Resistance. Berg Publishers, 1999.

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

Awards

Distinctions: 

Innovated the methodology of “native ethnography”

Widely consulted by the US media on issues of Arab and Islamic culture

Invited frequently in the US and abroad to give public lectures

Awards: 

Finalist, Katherine Briggs Folklore Award, for book Veil: Modesty, Privacy and Resistance, November 2000

Grand Prize, Best Ethnographic Film on Arab-Islamic Culture, International Mediterranean Festival for Visual Anthropology, Palermo, Sicily, November 1989

Fulbright Islamic Civilization Senior Scholar, 1981-1982