Mediated Lives: Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in Jordan
Mediated Lives: Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in Jordan by Mirjam Twigt (Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2022). Reviewed by Zainab…
Mediated Lives: Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in Jordan by Mirjam Twigt (Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2022). Reviewed by Zainab…
Shari’a, Inshallah: Finding God in Somali Legal Politics by Mark Fathi Massoud (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021). Reviewed by…
Book Review: Afghanistan Post-2014: Power Configurations and Evolving Trajectories The colonial and postcolonial writings about Afghanistan are marked by the…
The grand narrative social scientists tell of twenty-first century China is one of rapid, drastic change. While sociocultural anthropologists have…
Copyright: From Historical Roots to Regulating the Contemporary Complexities of Human Creativity In 1993, pop/rock icon Prince caused a stir…
After the Arab Spring: Four Anthropologies of Political Space in the Middle East “Social movements are a messy affair” (p….
New Perspectives on Energy “In one version of this dictionary, wood – fuel – would be the only entry,” Karen…
Katherine Hirschfeld’s Gangster States: Organized Crime, Kleptocracy and Political Collapse (2015) aims high. Inspired by noir fiction books, like James…
Post-socialism 2.0: New Ethnographies of Contemporary Balkans 2015 has proven to be an exciting time for political anthropology of former…
Kabul Carnival: Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan by Julie Billaud (2015) is a breeze of fresh air. Reading this well…