Fadwa El Guindi (born 1941) is an

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and former professor of anthropology at

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elnil.org. Accessed 11 April 2011. She is the author of several

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, including ''The Myth of Ritual: A Native's Ethnography of Zapotec Life-Crisis Rituals'' (1986) and ''By Noon Prayer: The Rhythm of Islam'' (2008).

Early life and education

El Guindi was born in

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. After graduating in 1960 with a BA in political science from the

American University in Cairo The American University in Cairo (AUC; ar, الجامعة الأمريكية بالقاهرة, Al-Jāmi‘a al-’Amrīkiyya bi-l-Qāhira) is a private research university in Cairo, Egypt. The university offers American-style learning programs ...

, she obtained a PhD in anthropology in 1972 from the

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Career

El Guindi held positions as assistant professor of anthropology at the

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from 1972 to 1981 and adjunct professor at the

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from 1982 to 2004. In 2006 she became a professor at Qatar University, where she served as head of the department of social services from 2007 to 2010. El Guindi sat on the editorial board of the journal '' Field Methods'' and on the international advisory board of '' Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society''. El Guindi has one director's credit and one actor's credit. In 1986, she made the film ''El Sebou': Egyptian Birth Ritual'', which was sponsored by the Office of Folklife Programs at the

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. In 1997, El Guindi guest-starred as Amsha Bashir, mother of

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, in the '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' episode "

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Selected works

*''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. *''Visual Anthropology: Essential Method and Theory''. Altamira Press, Walnut Creek, California, 2004. *''By Noon Prayer: The Rhythm of Islam''. Berg Publishers. 2008. *"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.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Guindi, Fadwa 1941 births American University School of Public Affairs alumni American anthropologists Egyptian anthropologists American people of Egyptian descent American ethnologists University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts alumni Egyptian ethnologists Women ethnologists American women anthropologists Living people Qatar University faculty Egyptian women scientists American women academics 21st-century American women