In the grey zone of humanitarian honors: ‘Heroines of solidarity’ in the European ‘refugee crisis’
This article explores the interplay between morality and power in the conferral of humanitarian honors during the European “refugee crisis”.
The Dictator’s New Clothes: Syrian Drama’s Prescience
On the morning of December 8, 2024, just hours after the fall of the Al-Asad regime was officially declared, Syrians
Recalibrating Syria: New Openings for Anthropological Engagement
Joyful crowds toppling statues, unsealing torture prisons, defacing regime iconography, ordinary people roaming freely through Al-Asad’s Presidential Palace . .
Syria in transition: Impressions from Damascus after the toppling of the Assad regime
This post was written in February 2025. In late January 2025, just under two months after the toppling of the
Regulating Underwater Worlds: Anthropology, experts & thinking cross culturally about the sea
Thinking about the sea Figure 1: The Sea is Not Empty’, the Women Dreaming emerging from the sea in Marra
Ethics without the Ethics: The Institutionalized Committees and the Question of Integrity
I would like to use this opportunity to reflect on the long journey of ethics that I, as the PI
Street Books in Tehran: Collective Mentality and Decolonizing Research Engagement
Wandering through the central streets of Tehran, you will invariably come across the ubiquitous street booksellers and their stalls. As
The Ethics of Researching the Far-Right in the Global South
It was a hot sweltering Sunday afternoon in the bustling city of Karachi. I had come to the Bahar-e-Shariat mosque
An audio note on Commitment
‘We have to sit with the structural inequality of our work, and not try to dance around the obligation of
The Transformative Potential of Intimacy: Turkish Coffee Talk and Ethnographic Listening
Until the fairly recent turn towards therapy and mental health of educated middle classes in Turkey, talking with one’s neighbor,