Conflict, displacement and normality in the Middle East – Kurdistan and the Kurdish Diaspora
For many years now there has been a constant stream of distressing news coming from the Middle East: authoritarian regimes […]
The New War in Iraq: No Safe Place for the Arabs and the Kurds – Kurdistan and the Kurdish diaspora
The world has been shocked by the “two monumental crisis”, the “twin plagues of Ebola and ISIS”, UN High Commissioner
Lila Abu-Lughod on Colonial Feminism and Muslim Women #ANTHROISLAM
After the success of her article published in American Anthropologist in 2002 under the same title, Lila Abu-Lughod released her
Allie’s reading week: #AnthroIslam
We promised we would do it, and now it is done ! Here are the first glimpses into some of the
Mass-produced Desire and the Doughnut Machine
We conclude our thematic week on #BODY with an AVMoFA entry by Paul Mullins & mass-produced desire via the Doughnut
Dear ‘Older’ Generation’ #UniversityCrisis
Dear ‘Older’ Generation, Yes – You with the permanent posts the faculty members the tenure trackers We simply
Democracy building unraveled
This thematic thread gathers together a series of posts by leading experts and anthropologists of Afghanistan, who analyse the 2014
Elections as domestication of violence and threats of war
The 2014 Afghan presidential election reveals the dual quality Achille Mbembe described in Politics as a Form of Expenditure[i] as,
After Elections: Hope?
Worldwide debates on 2014 Afghan elections condense some of the most influencing myths – one of which certainly being related
Violence, Voting and the Monopolization of Power
The following is based on edited excerpts from the introduction of Derailing Democracy in Afghanistan: Elections in an Unstable Political