Position:
Research Fellow, St Antony's College
Faculty / College Address:
Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies / St Antony's College
Email:
ahmed.al-shahi@sant.ox.ac.uk
namlas159@gmail.com
Research Interests:
Social anthropology, with regional interest in Sudan and the Middle East. Topics of interest: economic and social development, social differentiation, sectarian politics, oral literature, Gulf Shaikhdoms and Middle East and North Sfrican immigrants in Europe
Current Projects:
- An anthropological monograph on a community in northern Sudan
- Analysis of the oral traditions of nomads in northern Sudan
- Letters from the Gulf Shaikhdoms by Peter Lienhardt
Courses Taught:
- Middle East Anthropology
- Arab popular culture
Recent Publications:
- Themes from northern Sudan, Ithaca Press, London 1986.
- (editor), The diversity of the Muslim community, Ithaca Press, London 1987
- (editor), Disorientations: a society in flux. Kuwait in the 1950s, by Peter Lienhardt, Ithaca Press, Reading 1993
- (co-editor), Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 28/1 (1997). Special issue in memory of Godfrey Lienhardt
- (editor), Shaikhdoms of Eastern Arabia, by Peter Lienhardt, Palgrave/ MacMillan, St Antony's College Series, Basingstoke, 2001
- (co-editor), Middle East and North African Immigrants in Europe, Routledge, London and New York, 2005
