Fadwa El Guindi
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Fadwa El Guindi is an Egyptian-born professor of anthropology.
Dr. 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. The Nubian homeland was to be affected by the national project: building the Aswan Dam to harness energy for development.
Dr El Guindi won a scholarship to the United States to obtain a PhD in anthropology in a university of her choice. El Guindi wanted an area for her doctoral research culturally connected to the Middle East, yet different enough for achieving the externality methodologically needed in anthropology for sound analytic observations. The field site of her choice was Latin America. The University of Texas in Austin was deemed most suitable, with its traditional scholarly renown in the area of Latin America. In 1972, Dr El Guindi obtained a PhD in anthropology.
In 1986, Dr El Guindi made the film El Sebou': Egyptian Birth Ritual, which was sponsored by the Office of Folklife Programs at the Smithsonian Institution.
Dr El Guindi has also had a dalliance with Hollywood: she guest-starred as Julian Bashir's mother, Amsha Bashir, in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 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
Professional Memberships
Fellow, American Anthropological Association
Fellow, Royal Anthropological Institute
Fellow, Middle East Studies Association
Fellow, American Research Centre in Egypt
Associate, Current Anthropology; Member, American Ethnological Society
Member, Society for Visual Anthropology; Member, American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies
Member, Middle East Section, American Anthropological Association
