UPDATES: He was released by presidential decree on July 30, 2022 and now has successfully defended his Master's thesis :Following Unjust Imprisonment, Ahmed Samir Santawy Completes Master’s Studies at CEU (28.9.2023) but the Egyptian authorities have… more »
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Kareem Ahmady: "I just simply left". Photo: Ahmady's website One month ago I have written about anthropologist Kareem Ahmady, who has researched child marriage, female genital mutilation (FGM) and sexuality in Iran, before: Iran jails anthropologist for… more »
(via FocaalBlog) In the general public, academics are often viewed as being part of an elite, who lives comfortable lives. In reality this is only true for a small minority of well-paid professors, while the situation for most academics rather… more »
How do people cope? What changes have they observed? How does climate change affect their life and and their relation to the environment? These are some of the important questions that anthropologist Zdenka Sokolíčková asks. more »
by lorenz on Jan 19, 2021 in indigenous people / minorities, politics, Us and Them, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, Northern America
Do you wear a mask when you meet your friends? Do you? Recently I often had to think of an observation of a Twitter user in Germany: She or he realised that people do wear masks in public transport or in supermarkets but showed careless behaviour when… more »
by lorenz on Jan 13, 2021 in politics, Asia, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers
When Twitter announced that it had suspended Donald Trump's account, Twitter also censored the voice of Alexandra Elbakyan, the 32 year old creator of the probably most cherished website in the global scientific community: Sci-hub. This website, as most… more »
by lorenz on Jan 6, 2021 in Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), Middle East, websites
Mai Amer: "I really hope the show encourages viewers to reflecting on and critique certain things they think". Screenshot from her Facebook page How can we better understand the world we live in? Not only here in Europe, but also in many Arab countries,… more »
Ahmady has researched child marriage, female genital mutilation (FGM) and sexuality in Iran. In 2015, the BBC reminds us, he published a study suggesting that tens of thousands of Iranian women had undergone female genital mutilation. Until then, Iran had not been widely recognised as a country affected by FGM. more »
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