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An Anthropologist Looks Back on Decades Living in the Middle East Time: 0:03
April 30, 2014. Andrea Rugh reflects on her years living and working as an anthropologist in the Middle East.
Speaker Biography: Andrea Rugh is an adjunct scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C. She has a Ph.D. in anthropology from the American University in Washington. Between 1964 and 1995, she lived in the Middle East region, including three years in the United Arab Emirates. Her publications include four books on Arab society: "Coping with Poverty in a Cairo Community," "Family in Contemporary Egypt," "Reveal and Conceal: Dress in Egypt" and "Within the Circle: Parents and Children in a Syrian Village," plus introductions and English versions of Siham Tergeman's "Daughter of Damascus" and Samir Tahhan's "Folktales of Syria."
For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6345
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Release Date: 11/09/2014, 02:48:00
