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Attiya Ahmad
George Washington University
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
2112 G St. NW, Office 102
Dept. of Anthropology, GWU
Washington DC 20052
United States
Discipline
Anthropology
Sub Areas
Cultural Studies
Islamic Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
South Asian Studies
Transnationalism
Geographic Areas of Interest
Gulf
Kuwait
Pakistan
India
Mashreq
Specialties
Gendered Labor
Islamic Mvmts
Cosmopolitanism
Languages
Arabic (intermediate)
French (fluent)
Urdu (fluent)
Education
PhD | 2009 | Cultural Anthropology | Duke University
MA | 2005 | Cultural Anthropology | Duke University
MA | 2001 | Anthropology | University of Toronto
Abstracts
Conversion to Islam or Becoming Muslim?: Da’wa, Domestic Work and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait Gendered Workings of Religious Pieties: South Asian Domestic Workers' Becoming Muslim in Kuwait Household Contestations: Religious Conversions, Domestic Workers and Political Discourses in Kuwait