Office: EPS 1.116
Office Hours: Thursdays 10:00-12:00 p.m. @ WGS 4th floor
Phone: 471-7531
asdar@mail.utexas.edu

Additional affiliations: Anthropology, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Religious Studies, South Asia Institute, Center for Gender and Women's Studies, Population Research Center

Education: Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

Research interests:
Gender, Health, Development, Labor History, Political Economy; Post-Colonialism;
Urban Social Histories, Popular Culture, Historiography, Memory, Liberalism, Middle
East; South Asia (Egypt, Pakistan).


Shehr Network on Comparative Urban Social Histories. Coordinated by
Kamran Asdar Ali and Martina Rieker (AUC)
Middle East Report, Editorial Committee Member

Field(s) of Study: Social Anthropology; Folklore/Public Culture

Recent Publications:

Books
Forthcoming. Urban Visions of the Margins. Martina Rieker and Kamran Asdar Ali, Editors. Guest Edited Journal Volume. Social Text.

Forthcoming. Gendering Urban Space in the Middle East, South Asia and Africa. Kamran Asdar Ali and Martina Rieker Editors. Palgrave Press. Books

2002 Planning the Family in Egypt: New Bodies, New Selves. University of Texas Press.

Articles

2005 Strength of the State meets the Strength of the Street: The 1972 labor struggle in Karachi." International Journal of Middle East Studies. #37, 83-107.

2005 "Population Planning and Policies: Arab States. The Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (EWIC). Leiden: Koninklijke Brill.

2005 "Courtesans in the Living Room." ISIM Review 15.

2004 "Pulp Fictions: Reading Pakistani Domesticity." Social Text #78. pp 123-145.

2003 "Myths, Lies and Impotence: Structural Adjustment and Male Voice in Egypt." Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa and the Middle East #23(1):321-334

2002 "Faulty Deployments: Persuading Women and Constructing Choice in Egypt." Comparative Studies in Society and History, 44(2):370-394.