Kamran Asdar Ali

Kamran Asdar Ali is a Professor of Anthropology, Middle East Studies, and Asian Studies at the University of Texas, Austin (UT Austin) where he's also affiliated with their South Asia Institute, Population Research Center, and Women and Gender Studies Department. He was the Director of the South Asia Institute (UT Austin) from 2011 to 2017. He is the author of Planning the Family in Egypt: New Bodies, New Selves (UT Press, 2002) and the co-editor of Gendering Urban Space in the Middle East, South Asia and Africa (Palgrave 2008), Comparing Cities: Middle East and South Asia (Oxford 2009) and Gender, Politics, and Performance in South Asia (Oxford 2015). He has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (1998-99), a senior fellow at ISIM, University of Leiden (2005), and a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg at Berlin (2010-2011). He has published several articles on issues of health and gender in Egypt and on ethnicity, class politics, sexuality, and popular culture in Pakistan. His more recent book is Communism in Pakistan: Politics and Class Activism 1947-1972 (IB Tauris and Oxford, 2015).

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