“3almi 3almak” is a podcast about ethnography as a means of producing knowledge, prepared by the Working Group on Ethnography and Knowledge in the Arab Region. The first series presents interviews with female researchers and anthropologists about their work and the impact of prevailing conditions in the research field – which are usually crisis and stressful conditions – on field research methodology and research tools. The interviews also shed light on the thinkers, ethnographers, and researchers who inspire them most, academic cooperation and partnership, as well as the nature of the knowledge that ethnographic methodology produces in our region today.
Interview with Dr. Reem Saad, an independent Egyptian researcher and academic. She previously worked as a professor of anthropology and also an assistant professor for research at the Center for Social Research, at the American University in Cairo.
Interview with Fayrouz Salem , a doctoral student at Birzeit University in Palestine, in the Social Sciences Program. Her field research deals with rural communities in marginalized areas. She completed her master's degree in international sciences and worked for a long time in the field of rural development.
Interview with Dr. Rosemary Sayigh, anthropologist and researcher who has pioneered the use of Oral history, particularly in documenting the narrative of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. This Episode is in English with an Arabic language introduction.
"Closed Fields of Research and Alternative Paths for Knowledge Production" An interview with Dr. Aseel Sawalha, a Palestinian academic currently serving as an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Urban Studies at Fordham University in New York.
This podcast contains a selection of diary entries, written between November 2020 and February 2021 by 12 writers living in Lebanon. The aim was to create an ethnographic record of the intricacies of the turbulent times they were living through and shed some light on everyday experiences in extraordinary times. This selection comprises only a portion of the wealth of entries from our writers, written in English and Arabic, within the “Ethnographic Diaries: Capturing the Everyday in Crisis” project, initiated and developed by Muzna Al-Masri and Michelle Obeid under the ACSS Ethnography and Knowledge Working Group.
This podcast is one of two audio files. This one contains a selection of texts originally written in English, and the other, contains a different selection of texts written in Arabic. The complete project can be found on the Rusted Radishes website.
This podcast was produced by the Arab Council for the Social Sciences’ (ACSS) Working Group on “Ethnography and Knowledge in the Arab Region”.
