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 2007-12), on sabbatical 2012-13

Selected Publications

Multimedia

Fatna ElBouih: Talk of Darkness, Human Rights in Morocco. A public reading and lecture at UCLA, March 10, 2009. watch video

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. watch video

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. watch video

Books
2013. Co-editor. Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa: Into the New Millenium. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

2012. Co-editor. Jews and French Colonialism in Algeria. Special guest edited issue of the Journal of North African Studies, volume 17, number 5, December.
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2010. 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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