Loading ...Sa'ed Atshan - Sexualities and Queer Imaginaries Across the Middle East and North Africa
Date/Time
Date(s) - 02/04/2022
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location
Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Categories
Cost:
Free USD
Contact Person:
Email:
cmes@brown.edu
Website:
https://watson.brown.edu/cmes/events/2021/lecture-saed-atshan-sexualities-queer-imaginaries-MENA
Phone:
+1 401 863 6924
Organization:
Brown University for Middle East Studies
About the Lecture
Over the past 15 years, there has been a mushrooming of Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/
About the Speaker
Sa’ed Atshan is an (acting) associate professor of anthropology at Emory University. He is also an associate professor of peace and conflict studies at Swarthmore. Atshan previously served as a visiting assistant professor of anthropology and senior research scholar in Middle Eastern studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and as a postdoctoral fellow at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies. He earned a joint PhD in anthropology and Middle Eastern studies, an MA in social anthropology from Harvard University, and a Master in Public Policy (MPP) from the Harvard Kennedy School. As an anthropologist, Atshan’s research is focused on a) contemporary Palestinian society and politics, b) global LGBTQ social movements, and c) Quaker Studies and Christian minorities in the Middle East. His forthcoming book, Paradoxes of Humanitarianism: The Social Life of Aid in the Palestinian Territories, is under contract with Stanford University Press in their Anthropology of Policy Series. He is also the author of Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique (Stanford University Press, 2020), and is co-author of The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians (Duke University Press, 2020).
