Susan Slyomovics

PROFESSOR

Ph.D., UC Berkeley 1985

Class Websites

Office: 312 HAINES HALL
Phone: 310-206-3702
Fax: 310-206-7833
E-mail: ssly@anthro.ucla.edu

Mailing Address:

Research Interests

Gender; human rights; folklore and material culture; visual anthropology; Middle East and North Africa (Director, G. E. Von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies, www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/)

Selected Publications

Multimedia

A Thousand and One Nights: Oral Epic Performance
The Tale of Anas al-Wujud and al-Ward fi-l-Akmam. An Oral Performance by Awadallah Abd al-Jalil Ali. click here to watch

A Thousand and One Nights: The Merchant of Art
Supplementary media for the UCLA course: A Thousand and One Nights Alf Layla wa-Layla, taught by Prof. Susan Slyomovics. click here to watch

Books

In Press. Editor. Clifford Geertz in Morocco. Routledge.

2008. Co-editor. Waging War and Making Peace: Reparations and Human Rights. Left Coast Press.

2008. Co-translator (Arabic). Fatna El Bouih, Talk of Darkness. University of Texas Press.

2005. The Performance of Human Rights in Morocco. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

2001. Editor. The Living Medina in the Maghrib: The Walled Arab City in Literature, Architecture, and History. London: Frank Cass.

2001. Co-editor, Women and Power in the Middle East. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

1998. The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

1987. The Merchant of Art: An Egyptian Hilali Oral Epic Poet in Performance. Berkeley: University of California Press.

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