Fadwa El Guindi

Fadwa El Guindi

Fadwa El Guindi is an Egyptian-born professor of anthropology with a PhD in anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin (1972).

El Guindi graduated from the American University in Cairo, Egypt with a BA in Political Science. She worked at the Social Research Centre, and participated in the first full-scale ethnographic project to study the way of life of the Nubians of Egypt prior to their government-sponsored relocation due to the building of the Aswan Dam.

In 1986, she made the film ', which was sponsored by the Office of Folklife Programs at the Smithsonian Institution. She also guest-starred as Julian Bashir's mother, Amsha Bashir, in the ' episode "Doctor Bashir, I Presume?", opposite Siddig El Fadil and Brian George.

Books

*"The Myth of Ritual: A Native's Ethnography of Zapotec Life-Crisis Rituals". Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press, 1986.
*"Veil: Modesty, Privacy, Resistance". Berg Publishers. 1999.

Articles

*Veiling Infitah with Muslim Ethic: Egypt's Contemporary Islamic Movement. "Social Problems" 28(4): 465-485 (1981).
*From Pictorializing to Visual Anthropology. In "Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology". H. Russell Bernard, editor. Altamira Press, Sage Publications, 459-511,1998.
*Beyond Picturing Culture: A Critique of a Critique. "American Anthropologist" 103(2):1-6, 2001


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