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ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

Titles of PhD Dissertation and MA Thesis

RESEARCH INTERESTS / EXPERTISE

Fieldwork Research Experience

2008–present: Research on heritage and nation building in the UAE

2006–2008: Research on Shi’i religious life and rituals in Bahrain

2007- 2008: Research on the British expatriates’ social and cultural life in Bahrain

1998–2007:  Research on migrant workers in the Arab Gulf (UAE)

1991–present: Research on global culture and its effects on Arab Gulf society (UAE)

Summer 1992:  Fieldwork interviews on Alexandria School of Social Anthropologists, Egypt

1981–1990:  Research on numerous social and cultural topics in contemporary Kuwaiti society

Summer 1974:  Research on Hawi al-Hawa village on the Euphrates River, Raqqa region, Syria

Summers 1972–73:   On tribal leadership among the Afadla and Fedan tribes of the Jazira, Northern Syria

HONORS AND AWARDS

WORK EXPERIENCE

SUBJECTS TAUGHT

University of Bahrain, 2006–2008

University of Sharjah, 2001–2006

American University in Dubai, 2000

Heritage Revival in the Gulf

UAE University, 1991–1999

Kuwait University, 1981–1990

Stockholm University, 1991

The Middle East

University of California, Los Angeles, 1978–1979

Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

American University of Beirut, 1972–1974 & 1976–1977

Work with Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (2008–2015)

I worked as an expert/consultant on heritage and culture in Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH, now the Department of Culture and Tourism, Abu Dhabi). My work involved:

·     Supervising junior researchers, who conduct research on heritage topics,

·     Organizing research training seminars and workshops.

·     Organizing and participating in conferences on heritage related issues and topics.

·     Preparing nomination files of UAE’s elements of intangible cultural heritage that were submitted for inscription on the UNESCO list for safeguarding as part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

·     Worked for two years (2008–2010) as heritage expert in the UNESCO Subsidiary Body for evaluating Intangible Cultural Heritage nomination.

·       Participated as a member of the UAE delegation in five UNESCO major meetings

PUBLICATIONS

Books:

Approaches and Trends in Political Anthropology: A Critical Study (in Arabic)

Faculty of Arts, Kuwait University publications, 1993

Articles:  

1.     2017 “An emirate goes global: the cultural making of Abu Dhabi”, in Small Countries: Structures and Sensibilities, editors: U. Hannerz and A. Gingrich, ch. 13, pp. 267-282. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia.

2.     2010 “Dubai camel market transnational workers: an ethnographic portrait”, in City and Society Journal, USA, Vol. 22 (1), pp. 97–118. Download from: https://www.academia.edu/attachments/4527369/download_file?st=MTUxNDQwMjYyNCw3OC4xNTEuNzIuMTI4LDQzMT...

3.     2008 “The nationalization of culture: Kuwait’s invention of pearl diving heritage” in Popular Culture and Political Identity in the Arab Gulf States, Edited by: Alsharekh, A and Springborg, R. Saqi Books, London  

4.     2006 “Ethnography and the culture of tolerance in Al-Andalus”, Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic Review, co-authored with John Fox and Nada Mourtada-Sabbah.Vol. 7, pp. 146–171. Download from: https://www.academia.edu/attachments/4527843/download_file?st=MTUxNDQwMjYyNCw3OC4xNTEuNzIuMTI4LDQzMT...

5.     2006 “Shaikhly authority in the pre-oil Gulf: a historical-anthropological study”, co-authored with James Onley. History and Anthropology, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 189–208. Download from: https://www.academia.edu/attachments/4528001/download_file?st=MTUxNDQwMjYyNCw3OC4xNTEuNzIuMTI4LDQzMT...

6.     2006 “The evolution of the Gulf city type, oil and globalization”, in Globalization and the Gulf, editors: J. Fox, N. Mourtada-Sabbah and M. al-Mutawa, ch. 14, pp. 244-265. Routledge, London. Download from: https://www.academia.edu/attachments/4353899/download_file?st=MTUxNDQwMjYyNCw3OC4xNTEuNzIuMTI4LDQzMT...

7.     2005 “National dress and the construction of Emirati cultural identity”, Journal of Human Sciences (Bahrain University), Issue 11 (Winter), pp. 230–267. Download from: https://www.academia.edu/attachments/9732390/download_file?st=MTUxNDQwMjYyNCw3OC4xNTEuNzIuMTI4LDQzMT...

8.     2002 “Globalization and heritage revival in the Gulf: An anthropological look at Dubai Heritage Village” Journal of Social Affairs (UAE), Vol. 19, No. 75 (Fall), pp 277–306. Download from: https://www.academia.edu/attachments/9732304/download_file?st=MTUxNDQwMjYyNCw3OC4xNTEuNzIuMTI4LDQzMT...

9.     2001 “Culture of the United Arab Emirates”, Encyclopedia of Countries and Their Cultures (Macmillan References) New York, Vol. 4, pp. 2325 –2331. Download from: https://www.academia.edu/attachments/9732143/download_file?st=MTUxNDQwNDEwMiw3OC4xNTEuNzIuMTI4LDQzMT...

10. 2000 “Poetics and politics of newly invented traditions in the Gulf: Camel racing in the United Arab Emirates” Ethnology, Vol. 39, No. 3 (summer), pp. 243–261. Download from: https://www.academia.edu/attachments/9731529/download_file?st=MTUxNDQwNDEwMiw3OC4xNTEuNzIuMTI4LDQzMT...

11. 1999: “Culture of camel racing in the Arab Gulf” (in Arabic), Al-Bahrain Al-Thaqafia Journal (Bahrain), May, pp. 46–56.

12. 1999  “Local and global dimensions of heritage revival: The case of camel racing in the Gulf”, (in Arabic) Proceedings of Emirati Society within the Context of Local and Global Transformations [conference] (UAE University Publications).

13. 1999 “Migrants' strategies of coping and patterns of accommodation in the oil-rich Gulf societies: Evidence from the UAE”, co-authored with Saad Alkobaisi, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, No. 26 (November), pp. 271–299.

14. 1999 “Camel racing in the Arab Gulf: Notes on the evolution of a traditional cultural sport”, Anthropos (Germany), March, pp.85–106.

15. 1998 “Globalization and cultural identity: A theoretical conceptualization for the study of Gulf and Arabian Peninsula society” (in Arabic), The Arab Journal for the Humanities (Kuwait), No. 61 (winter), pp. 52–93.

16. 1997 “Shaykhs, peasants and party comrades: political change in northern Syria” in The Transformation of Nomadic Society in the Arab East, editors: M. Mundy and B. Mussalam, ch.10, pp.110-122, Cambridge University Press. This chapter is also published as a contribution in a book on ‘Arab Society: Class, Gender, Power and Development’, Editors: Nicholas Hopkins and Saad Eddin Ibrahim. The American University in Cairo Press. Download from: https://www.academia.edu/attachments/9731885/download_file?st=MTUxNDQwNDEwMiw3OC4xNTEuNzIuMTI4LDQzMT...

17. 1997 “Dialogues with an Arab anthropologist: The journey of Hussein Fahim” (in Arabic), Al-Bahrain Al-Thaqafia Journal, Vol. 14 (October), 12 pages.

18. 1996 “Characteristics of urbanization in the Gulf city” (in Arabic), Kitab al-Rafid (Al-Rafid Books Series, Sharjah, UAE), No. 5, pp. 39–51. (The book contains the proceedings of a specialized conference on The City and its Peripheries in the Arab Gulf: Cultural Development in Rural and Urban Communities, held in Sharjah on 22 November 1995.)

19. 1993 “Cheikhs, paysans et members du parti Ba'th: Changements politiques en Syrie du nord”, Steppes d'Arabies — Etats, pasteurs, agriculteurs et commercaurs: Le Devinir des Zones Seches (Presses Universitaries de France, Paris), edited by R. Bocco, R. Jaubert, and F. Metral, pp. 178–194. Download from: https://www.academia.edu/attachments/9730882/download_file?st=MTUxNDQwNDEwMyw3OC4xNTEuNzIuMTI4LDQzMT...

20. 1991 “Land reform and social classes in rural Syria”, Syria: The society, polity, and culture of a modern nation (SUNY University Press, Albany NY), edited by R. Antoun and D. Quataert, pp. 63–78. Download from: https://www.academia.edu/attachments/9730444/download_file?st=MTUxNDQwNDIyOSw3OC4xNTEuNzIuMTI4LDQzMT...

21. 1992 “Gulf society and the image of unlimited good”, Dialectical Anthropology,(New York) Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 53–84. Download from: https://www.academia.edu/attachments/13694396/download_file?st=MTUxNDQwNDEwMyw3OC4xNTEuNzIuMTI4LDQzM...

22. 1990 “Settlement of violence in Bedouin society”, Ethnology, Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 225–243. Download from:  https://www.academia.edu/attachments/9730338/download_file?st=MTUxNDQwNDIyOSw3OC4xNTEuNzIuMTI4LDQzMT...

23. 1987 “The emergence of the oil welfare state: The case of Kuwait”, co-authored with Hassan Hammoud, Dialectical Anthropology, (New York) Vol. 12, pp. 343–357. Download from: https://www.academia.edu/attachments/9732665/download_file?st=MTUxNDQwNDIyOSw3OC4xNTEuNzIuMTI4LDQzMT...

24. 1985 “A critique of typologies and their uses in the anthropology of Middle Eastern societies” (in Arabic), Journal of the Social Sciences (Kuwait), Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 369–399. Download from: https://www.academia.edu/attachments/9729841/download_file?st=MTUxNDQwNDIyOSw3OC4xNTEuNzIuMTI4LDQzMT...

Teaching Material

1.     2004:  Prepared teaching material on Popular Culture, Sharjah University

2.     2003: Prepared teaching material on Ethnic Relations and Minorities, Sharjah University

3.     1996–97: Chief Editor, Planning and Social Development (Al-Ain, UAE, in English).

4.     1985: Notable Figures in Sociology and Anthropology (Kuwait University Press, in Arabic).

Chapters in Textbooks

1.     2017 “An Emirate goes global: the cultural making of Abu Dhabi”, Small Countries: Structures and Sensibilities (University of Pennsylvania Press, USA).

2.     1996–97 Co-author, “Development in the UAE”, Planning and Social Development (Al-Ain, UAE, in Arabic).

3.     1995 “Characteristics of anthropology, its subdivisions and relevance to modern life”, Anthropology: A General Introduction (Dar Al-Qalam Publisher, Dubai, UAE, in Arabic), chap. 1, pp. 7–44

4.     1995 “Methods and styles of anthropological research”, Anthropology: A General Introduction (Dar Al-Qalam Publisher, Dubai, UAE, in Arabic), chap. 2, pp. 45–84

5.     1994 “Economic transformations in Contemporary Arab Society (UAE University, Al-Ain, in Arabic).

Book Reviews

1.     1997: Review of Maha al-Muqaddam, Village Society: A Study of Traditionalism and Modernization (University Publishing Establishment, Beirut 1995), in Arab Journal for the Humanities (Kuwait), issue 58, pp. 312–321 (in Arabic).

2.     1992: Review of Emrys L. Peters, The Bedouin of Cyrenaica: Studies in Personal and Corporate Power (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1991) in Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology (Sweden), pp. 108–110.

3.     1987: Review of Fields of Anthropology: Selected Essays in Cultural Anthropology, translated by Al-Sayed Hamed & Aliya Hussein, in Journal of the Social Sciences (Kuwait), Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 288–296 (in Arabic).

4.     1986: Review of Ishaq Al-Qutub, Characteristics of Urban Growth in the Arab Gulf in Arab Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 361–362.

5.     1987: Review of Claude Levi-Strauss, Race and History in Arab Journal for the Humanities, Vol. 5, No. 18, pp. 220–230 (in Arabic).

6.     1984: Review of Jacqueline Ismael, Kuwait: Social Change in Historical Perspective in Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 257–268 (in Arabic).

Conference Reports

1.     1989: Report on the 12th IUAES Congress held in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, in July 1988, published in Arab Journal for the Humanities, Vol. 9, No. 34, pp. 232–236 (in Arabic).

2.     1988: Report on AAA 86th Annual Meeting in Chicago 1987, published in Journal of the Social Sciences (Kuwait), Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 343–346 (in Arabic).

3.     1990: Report on the symposium on “Social theory and problems of social research in contemporary Arab society”, Arab Journal for the Humanities, Vol. 37, No. 10 (Winter), pp. 219–225. (Acted as the organizer and editor of the symposium of five papers.)

4.     1986: Review of conference paper by Ali R. Mursi, “The influence of social and religious institutions in the socialization of the individual in Israel”, Proceedings of the Conference on the Educational Dimensions of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (Center for the Studies of Arab Unity, Beirut), pp. 415–419.

CONFERENCE PAPERS & LECTURES

Conference Papers Presented

1.       2012   “Small but empowered: the cultural making of Abu Dhabi Emirate in the global world” presented at a conference on Small Countries, Landskrona, Sweden, June 2012.

2.       2010   “Camels and their changing world in Arabia” a paper presented in the Workshop on Oasis in the Arabian Peninsula. Organized by the Paris Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi 12–13 May, UAE

3.       2008   “Falconry and the construction of Identity in the UAE”   Paper presented at Gulf Annual Conference, Exeter University 27-30 June , UK

4.       2007 “The British communities in Dubai and Bahrain: An ethnographic portrait 1992–2007”. Presented in the British World Conference ‘Defining the British World’ Bristol University, UK 11-14 July 2007

5.       2007 “International Chain Hotels in the Gulf: their impact on local culture”. Presented in the 2007 Gulf Conference, Organized by the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, UK, 4–6 July 2007

6.     2007   “The nationalization of culture: Kuwait’s invention of pearl diving heritage”, Presented in the conference on Popular Culture and Political Identity in the Arab Gulf States. Organized by the London Middle East Institute, SOAS, University of London, 8 February 2007

7.     2006   “Uses of heritage culture in nation-building in the Arab Gulf”, presented in the conference on Global Gulf, Institute of Islamic and Arab Studies, University of   Exeter, 4–6 July

8.     2006   “Popular heritage culture and nation building in the Gulf: Evidence from Kuwait and UAE”, presented in the Second World Congress of Middle Eastern Studies Amman, Jordan, 12–16 June

9.     2006   “The “construction of the camel as a cultural icon in the United Arab Emirates”, Zayed University seminar, 20 February

10. 2005   “Ethnographic explorations into the life conditions of migrant camel workers in the UAE”, presented in the International conference on Transnational Migration: Foreign Labor and its Impact in the Gulf. Held at the Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy, 20–25 June.

11. 2005   “Dubai Camel Market as a specialized economic-cultural ecology”, presented at the Conference on Migrant Labor in the Arab Gulf: The Realities and the Challenges. Held at University of Sharjah, UAE, 11 May.

12. 2003   “Nation building and popular heritage culture in the Arab Gulf: The case of the UAE”, presented in the International Conference on Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa. Held at the American University of Sharjah, UAE, 25–27 January.

13. 2003   “National dress and the construction of Emirati ethnic/national identity “, presented at XV ICAES (International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences). Held in Florence, Italy, 5–12 July.

14. 2002   “Globalization and the Construction of Emirati Ethnic/National Identity”, presented at The First World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies. Held in University of Mainz, Germany, 8–12 September.

15. 2002   “Arab Perception of the West”, presented at conference on Perceptions of the West. Organized by the American University of Sharjah, UAE, 9 May.

16. 1999   “Local and global dimensions of heritage revival: the case of camel racing in the Gulf”, presented at UAE Society within the Context of Local and Global Transformations. Organized by the Faculty of the Humanities and Social Sciences, UAE University, Al-Ain, UAE, 11–12 April.

17. 1998   “Anthropology and Orientalism”, presented at conference on Orientalism. Organized by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, UAE University, Al-Ain, UAE, December.

18. 1998   “The Gulf oil city as a sociological type”, presented at 14th International Congress of Anthropological & Ethnological Sciences. Held at Williamsburg, USA, 26 July–1 August.

19. 1997   “The oil state in the Arab Gulf: Notes on its evolution”, paper presented in a Conference on Tribe, Kindred and the State in the Muslim World, organized by Maison Francaise de L'Universite d'Oxford and Le Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale, Paris, and The Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, UK, 26–28 September.

20. 1997   “Ethnic and cultural identity in the UAE”, a paper presented at British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) 1997 conference, Oxford, UK, 6–9th July.

21. 1996   “Farming in the oil-rich Arab Gulf countries”, a paper presented at the 9th World Congress of Rural Sociologists, held in Bucharest, Romania, 22–26 July.

22. 1996   “Camel racing as cultural performance in changing Gulf Arab societies: The case of UAE”, a paper presented at the second EURAMES Conference held in Aix-en-Provence, France, 4–7 July.

23. 1995   “Uses of sociological knowledge: the potential and the actual”, paper (in Arabic) presented at a specialized conference on Modern Trends and Applications in Sociology, UAE University, Al Ain, UAE, 13 March.

24. 1995   “Viewing oil Arab Gulf countries as constructed societal type”, a paper presented at the BRISMES 1995 conference, University of Durham, UK, 12–15 July.

25. 1995   “Social factors affecting youth deviance in Emirates society”, a working paper (in Arabic) presented in a conference on Youth deviance in the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 20–21 May.

26. 1995   “School and socialization, with particular emphasis on the role of school social worker”, a working paper (in Arabic) presented in a specialized conference/workshop on Developing the Role of Social Worker in Socialization, Al-Ain, UAE, 15–16 March.

27. 1994   “Local-global continuum: A theoretical conceptualization for studying Arab Gulf Society,” paper (in Arabic) presented at the conference on Issues of Methodology in the Social Sciences: Viewing the Reality of Arab Society, University of Bahrain, 9–11 April.

28. 1993   “Managing multiple knowledge discourses in contemporary Gulf Arab Society”, paper presented at the Association of Social Anthropologists (ASA) IV Decennial Conference, Oxford, UK, 26–30 July.

29. 1991   “Shaikhs, peasants and party-comrades: Political change in northern rural Syria.” Paper presented at an international conference on Devenir des Steppes d'Arabie et du Bilad Ach-Cham. Organized by Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, Institut Universitaire d'Edtudes du Development, Geneva, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, Yarmouk University, Jordan, and Maison de l'Orient Mediteraneen, Lyons. Held in Paris, France, 10–14 April.

30. 1990   “Representation and political discourse of cultural revival. The case of post-oil Kuwait.” Paper presented at the IUAES Inter-Congress, Lisbon, Portugal, 5–12 September.

31. 1990   Contributed a working paper for a symposium on Social Theory and Problems of Social Research in Contemporary Arab Society, Kuwait University, 24 May. Proceedings of the symposium were published in Arab Journal for the Humanities, No. 37 (1990).

32. 1988   “From laborers to domestic leisure: Bedouin women in post-oil Kuwait.” Paper presented at the Congress of International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES), Zagreb, Yugoslavia.

33. 1988   “Land reform and social classes in rural Syria.” paper presented at the conference, Syria: The Society, Polity and Culture of a Modern Nation sponsored by South West Asian and North African Studies Center (SWANA) and the Department of Anthropology at SUNY, Binghamton USA, May.

34. 1988   “International chain hotels and changing local cultures: A case from Kuwait.” Paper presented at the 87th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, USA.

35. 1986   “Gulf society and the image of unlimited good.” Paper presented at the 85th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, USA, December.

36. 1984   “A critique of typologies and their uses in the anthropology of Middle Eastern societies.” Paper presented at the conference on Sociology and the Issues of the Arab Man, Kuwait, April.

37. 1978   “Shaikhs and khan-keepers: A new praxis towards detribalization in the Jazira of Syria.” Paper presented at the 77th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Los Angeles, USA.

Conferences Attended for Participation in Discussions

Participated as a discussant in about 15 regional conferences in Kuwait and the UAE on various cultural, social, educational, economic and political topics. I also participated in six international conferences:

1.     British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, 9–11 July 1987, Leeds University, UK

2.     Middle-East Study Association in North America (MESA) Nov. 1988, Baltimore, U.S.A.

3.     European Association for Middle-Eastern Studies (EURAMES) July 1993, Warwick University, U.K.

4.     The Annual Convention of the Association of Arab-American University graduates, Oct. 1999, NY, U.S.A  

5.     MESA conference, Nov. 1999, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

6.     The Ninth International conference on “Post traditional environments in a post global world”. Organized by the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments at The American University of Sharjah, 14–18 December, 2004

7.     Participated in three of Sharjah Urban Planning Symposia. Held in University of Sharjah in April, (2002–2004)

Lectures, Seminars, and Colloquia

1.     2006 Gave a seminar on: “Poor migrants’ strategies of coping and adjustment in the Gulf” Dept. of the Social Sciences, Fac. of Arts, University of Bahrain,18^th December

2.     2005 Participant in a round table discussion in the international conference on “The   Social Sciences in the 21^st Century: Shifting Boundaries and Paradigms” Held at the American University of Sharjah, 6 February 2005

3.     2001­–2005 Gave 5 seminars on different anthropological topics in the Dept. of Sociology, annual seminar program, University of Sharjah.

4.     2000 Gave a colloquium on “Heritage revival and nation building in the Arab Gulf” at the Department of Anthropology, Cornell University, New York State, USA, 28 April.

5.     2000 Presented a seminar on “Camel racing in the oil-rich Arab Gulf” at the Department of Anthropology Seminar Series, Harvard University, USA, 13 March.

6.     2000 Presented a seminar on “Migrants' strategies of coping in the Gulf”, at the Emile Bustani Middle East Seminar, MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, 7 March.

7.     2000 Presented a seminar on “Gulf Arab societies: oil and the image of unlimited good” at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, USA, 8 February.

8.     1999 Presented a lecture on “Camel racing in the Emirates” to the Emirates Natural History Group, Al-Ain, UAE, 11 May.

9.     1999 Presented a lecture on “Camel racing in the UAE: An anthropological perspective” at the American University of Sharjah, UAE, 14 April (in Arabic).

10. 1998 Presented a public lecture on “Globalization and cultural identity in the Arab Gulf”, at Nadwat Al-Thaqafa wa Al-Uloum, Dubai, 21 October (in Arabic).

11. 1998 Presented a review of Mohammed Al-Mur's book, National Aspirations: Dar Al-Thaqafa in Sharjah, UAE, 19 April (in Arabic).

12. 1998 Presented a seminar on “Globalization and the issue of cultural identity in Gulf Arab societies” at the Faculty of Arts, University of Bahrain, 25 March (in Arabic).

13. 1998: Presented lecture on “Camel racing in Gulf Arab society” at the Bahrain National Museum, Bahrain, 26 March (in Arabic).

14. 1994: Presented a seminar on “Emerging social structures and issues in contemporary Gulf Arab society” at the Department of Anthropology, University of Melbourne, Australia, 3 August.

15. 1994: Presented a lecture on “Bedouin old nomadic lifeways” to the Emirates Natural History Group, Al-Ain, 26 April.

16. 1994: Presented a lecture on “The camel and the Bedouin lifeways” to the Emirates Natural History Group, Dubai, 2 May.

17. 1994: Presented a lecture on “Social and economic transformations in Emirates Society” to a group of international consultants working for The National Project for Developing Human Resources and Higher Education in the UAE, held in the Center for Research on Developing Human Resources, UAE University, Al-Ain, UAE, March (in Arabic).

18. 1993: Presented a departmental seminar on “Channels and institutions of global culture and their effects on Arab Gulf Societies”, at the Department of Sociology and Social Work, UAE University, Al-Ain, UAE, 13 December (in Arabic).

19. 1991: Presented a departmental seminar on “Theoretical trends in political Anthropology: A Critical Review, at the Department of Sociology & Social Work, UAE University, Al-Ain, UAE, 16 December (in Arabic).

20. 1991 Presented two lectures on “The making of modern Kuwait” at the Universities of Oslo and Bergen, Norway, 14–18 May.

21. 1991 Presented four lectures on the Middle East as part of a course on the Middle East organized by Oriental Studies Centre, Uppsala University, Sweden, April.

22. 1991 Presented three seminars in the Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, Sweden, February–May:

· Changing world of Bedouin women in post-oil Kuwait

· Repression of violence in Bedouin society

· Alexandria school of social anthropology in Egypt

23. 1991 “Bedouin women in post-oil Kuwait”, seminar presented at Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford, UK, 25 January.

24. 1991 Presented a seminar on “Oil welfare state in Kuwait” at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK, 25 January.

25. 1990 Presented three seminar lectures at the Dept. of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, Swede, 20-26 October:

· The making of modern Kuwait

· Gulf society and the image of unlimited good

· The anthropology of global reach: The case of international chain hotels in Kuwait.

26. 1984–1989 Presented four departmental seminars at Kuwait University.

27. 1978–1980 Presented two seminars at UCLA on social and political change in rural Syria.

Conference Panels and Symposiums Organized and Chaired

1.     1997 Organized a panel on “Globalization and cultural dynamics in Gulf Arab societies” in collaboration with Dr. Dawn Chatty, held during the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) conference, Oxford, UK, 6–9 July.

2.     1990 Organized and chaired a symposium on Social Theory and Problems of Social Research in Contemporary Arab Society, Kuwait University, 24 May. Proceedings of the symposium were published in Arab Journal for the Humanities, No. 37 (1990).

3.     1985 Discussant and reviewer in a regional conference on The Educational Dimensions of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Kuwait, 23–27 March.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

1.     American Anthropological Association (AAA), USA

2.     Association of Arab Social Scientists (1993–1997)

3.     Association of Social Anthropologists (ASA), UK

4.     British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES), UK

5.     European Association for Middle East Studies (EURAMES),

6.     International Commission of Nomadic Peoples, UK (Member of Executive

      Committee, 1999–2010)

7.     International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES)

8.     Middle East Research Group in Anthropology (MERGA), USA

9.     Society of American Ethnologist, USA (1995–2009)

10. Society for Humanistic Anthropology, USA (1995–2009)

11. Society for Urban, national, transnational/global Anthropology 2007–

12. Sociologists Association, UAE

JOURNAL PAPERS REFEREED

Refereed nearly 70 academic papers for Arab and Western academic journals.

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

2001–07   Involved in numerous committees in the University of Sharjah at all levels, including: seminar committee, library and learning resources committee, representative of the sociology department in faculty of arts and sciences council (2002–2004), the university conference committee (2003–2004), the university scientific research committee (2003–2004), and department ad hoc promotion committee (2002–present). In University of Bahrain (2006–2007) co-cordinator of the seminar committee in the Sociology Division, and a member in the cultural/seminar Committee at the Faculty of Arts level.

1992–99 Involved in six committees for designing teaching material in six subjects taught in the Department of Sociology, UAE University, Al-Ain, UAE.

1989–99 Member of development committees for the BA and MA programs in sociology, UAEU

1982–99 Coordinator and/or member of numerous committees at Kuwait University and UAE University: seminar and conference committee, library committee, translation and writing social science textbooks committee, scholarship committee, social activities committee, cultural activities committee, Kuwait University residence committee, course development

committee, supervisor of the heritage and anthropology laboratory.

Ph.D. FIELDWORK RESEARCH SUPERVISION

2009–11 Local research supervisor for Bjorn Brenner, a PhD student at Guttenberg University, doing fieldwork on Bedouin ideology on conflict and conflict resolution in Syria.

2008–11 Local research supervisor for Maria Kastrinou-Theodoropo, a PhD student at Durham University (UK) doing fieldwork on the anthropology of Syrian folkdance.

2008–09 Local research advisor at ADACH for 1 MA and 3 Ph.D. students doing fieldwork on the history, anthropology and media studies on the United Arab Emirates.

2005–06 Local research advisor for Neha Vora, a PhD student from the University of California, Irvine, who conducted research on the Indian expatriate (gold trading) community in Dubai.

2002–04 Local research advisor for Ahmed Kanna, a PhD student from Harvard University, whose research project was entitled “Globalization, malls, culture and identity in Dubai”.

2002–03 Local research advisor for Bernard Ghoul, a PhD student from the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), whose research project was entitled “Globalization and the evolving polity of Dubai Emirate”.

2001–02 Local research advisor for Christopher Davidson, a PhD from St. Andrews University, Scotland, whose research project was entitled “United Arab Emirates: A study in survival”.

1997–99 Local research supervisor for Pernilla Ouis, a PhD student from Lund University, Sweden, whose research project was entitled “Human ecology in the UAE”.

1995–97 Local supervisor for Robert Lovelace, a Canadian part-time PhD student from the University of Central England, Birmingham, UK, whose research project was entitled “A culturally sensitive framework for use in the design of individualized management programs for UAE nationals”.

HOBBIES AND INTERESTS

Painting, photography, reading novels and travel.