Qatar University

Faculty Member, Social Sciences

Distinguished Professor of Anthropology

Arts and Sciences

About

Fadwa El Guindi, Ph.D., is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Qatar University where she was former Head of Department of Social Sciences (2007-2010). She is a Retired Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) -- a noted anthropologist who has published widely and lectures internationally. She earned her B.A. in Political Science from the American University in Cairo and her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin. She has taught at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of California, Santa Barbara, the University of Southern California (USC), and at Georgetown University. Her expertise on the Middle East brought her to the Clinton White House for a meeting with the President. She is a past president of the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association as well as a former president of the American Anthropological Association's Society for Visual Anthropology. She serves on boards of a number of scholarly journals.She has made a number of anthropological films on Arab society and is author of many books and research articles.  Now in its third printing, her book Veil: Modesty, Privacy and Resistance, has been translated into Indonesian and other languages. Her latest book is By Noon Prayer: The Rhythm of Islam. 

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