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James Toth is an anthropologist who specializes in Egypt, the UAE, the Arabian Gulf, the Arab world, and the wider Islamic community. He has conducted ethnographic research in northern Egypt on migrant farm labor and in southern Egypt on Islamic militancy. He has written extensively on grass-roots development, religious movements, women and agriculture, and the impact of globalization on the Middle East. He was the director for Save the Children’s community development program in Egypt in the 1980s, on the anthropology faculty at the American University of Cairo in the 1990s, and at Northeastern University in the 2000s. From 2011 to 2014, he worked at the New York University Institute in Abu Dhabi. He is now an associate professor on the faculty of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi.
Discipline
Anthropology
Sub Areas
Political Economy
Islamic Studies
Gulf Studies
Urban Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Arab States
Egypt
Gulf
UAE
Islamic World
Specialties
Development
Political Economy
Religious Movements
Languages
Arabic (intermediate)
Education
PhD
| 1987
| Anthro
| SUNY Binghamton
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