Fadwa El Guindi is an Egypt

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ian-born in 1941 professor of anthropology

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 with a PhD

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 in anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin

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 (1972). At present she is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Qatar University

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 in Doha, Qatar, as well as head of the department of social sciences.

El Guindi graduated from the American University

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 in Cairo

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, with a BA

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 in Political Science. She worked at the Social Research Centre and participated in the first full-scale ethnographic project to study the way of life of the Nubians

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 of Egypt prior to their government-sponsored relocation due to the building of the Aswan Dam

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In 1986, she made the film El Sebou': Egyptian Birth Ritual, which was sponsored by the Office of Folklife Programs at the Smithsonian Institution

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. She also guest-starred as Julian Bashir

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's mother, Amsha Bashir, in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

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episode "Doctor Bashir, I Presume?", opposite Siddig El Fadil and Brian George

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Writings

El Guindi has written several books and articles in the field of anthropology:

• 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.
• By Noon Prayer: The Rhythm of Islam. Berg Publishers. 2008. .,.,z,.lmmKA,ank
• Visual Anthropology: Essential Method and Theory. Altamira Press, Walnut Creek, California, 2004.
• 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.