Biography

•President,
The American Institute for Yemeni Studies
(2014-2022)

•Fellow
School of Historical Studies
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton, NJ
(2019-2020)

•Senior Fellow
Mamluk Studies Program
Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg
Bonn University
(January-June, 2019)

Senior Postdoctoral Scholar,
Institute for Social Anthropology
Austrian Academy of Sciences (2017-2018)

•Research Professor
Coordinator of Social Science Research,
Center for Humanities and Social Sciences
Qatar University
(2014-2017)

•Professor of Anthropology
Hofstra University
Hempstead, New York
(1991-2014)

Fluent in Arabic and overall residence in the Middle East (Yemen, Egypt, Qatar) for over 7 years since 1978.

Fieldwork in Yemen, Egypt, Qatar, U.A.E., Guatemala.

Development Consultant on over 20 projects since 1981.

Past-President of the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association.

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Online Curriculum Vitae

Op-ed Commentaries

• public talks and lectures
• tv and radio interviews
• op-ed and commentaries
• anthropological research
• Arabist and historical research
• development consultant

Formal interviews with Al Jazeera English, MSNBC, BBC, NPR, TheRealNews,WBEZ Chicago, News 12 Long Island, TeleCare, Our Muslim Neighbors, Sharjah TV (UAE), Qatar TV and radio, Yemen Radio.

• Author of seven books, over 50 professional articles, over 150 book reviews, plus op-eds and commentaries

• Over 150 professional lectures and conference papers and over 35 public talks at museums, schools and community organizations.

•Youtube videos:

Yemen after four years of war: What now?
Bergen 2019
Khutba vs. Khutzpa:
Islamophobia on the Internet
Georgetown University, August, 2016
Proxy Morons: The Demolition of Yemen
Real News Network, April, 2015
Houthi Fighters Pushed out of Aden
Real News Network, April, 2015
What's Happening in Yemen
University of New England,
December, 2011

Research Expertise
and Lecture Topics

Middle East Topics
• Arab Agriculture and Irrigation
• Islamic Astronomy and Time-Keeping
• Ethnography of the Middle East
• Orientalism
• •Qatar intangible heritage
• Red Sea/Indian Ocean Trade

Yemen
• Agriculture and Irrigation
• Development
• History of coffee and qât
•• Post Arab Spring Yemen
• Rasulid Yemen
• Tribal Society
• Water Resource Issues

Religion
• Anthropology of Religion
• Creation/Evolution Controversy
• Fundamentalism (Christian and Islamic)
• CyberIslam
• Islamic History
• Islamophobia
• Representation of Islam

• Editor
Contemporary Islam
(2007-2016)

CyberOrient
(2006-2022)

Yemen Update
(1990-2001)

Yemen Update Online
(2020-present)

• Webshaykh
Tabsir: Insight on the Middle East and Islam (2005-present)

AIYS Yemen Blog
(2014-present)

Yemen Webdate
(1998-2011)