Nefissa Naguib

Hjemmeside: http://www.cmi.no

Stilling: førsteamanuensis II

Telefon: 55 58 80 63

E-post: Nefissa.Naguib@sosantr.uib.no

Besøksadresse: Fosswinckelsgt. 6

Nefissa Naguib has worked and published on social and cultural aspects of water and food, women and war, welfare and relief activities in the Middle East. More recently her research and writings have focused on minorities, mainly Jews and Armenians, who have settled and participated in communities in the Arab Mediterranean. She is currently working on the aesthetic of everyday life with particular reference to Istanbul and Cairo.

Regional: Middle East and Mediterranean region

Thematic: Political and social processes regarding water and food. Politics of memory and material culture; aesthetics and religion; minorities, Gender, relief and armed conflict.

Semi‐academic research: Divas, terroir and labeling of food.

 

Publikasjoner i Cristin

Selected Publications 2005-2010

Books:

2010 [co‐edited with Bert de Vries] Movements of people in Time and Space. Bergen: Bric.

2009 Food and Foodways in the Middle East. Birzeit: Birzeit Publication.

2009 Water, Women and Memory: Recasting Lives in Palestine. Leiden: Brill (Published also with American University of Cairo Press in agreement with Brill in 2010).

2008 [Co‐edited with Inger Marie Okkenhaug] Interpreting welfare and relief in the Middle East. Leiden: Brill.

Journal articles and chapters in anthologies:

2010 For the Love of God: Care‐giving in the Middle East. Journal of Social Sciences and Mission, 23(1).

2009 Tastes and Fragrances from the Old World: Memoirs by Egyptian Jewish Women.Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 9(1).

2009 Brittle Images, Lingering Pasts: Armenian Women and Sorrow. In Women, Pain and Death: Rituals and Everyday‐Life on the Margins of Europe and Beyond. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

2008 Storytelling: Armenian Family Albums in the Diaspora. Visual Anthropology, 21(3).

2008 Nation of Orphans and Widows. Armenian Memories of Relief in Jerusalem. In Interpreting welfare and relief in the Middle East, eds. Nefissa Naguib & Inger Marie Okkenhaug. Leiden: Brill.

2007 Vannmeloner under sengen: Armenere i Kairo minnes mat og sult. [Water Melons under the bed: Armenians in Cairo recollecting food and hunger] Arr: Idéhistorisk Tidsskrift (Norwegian Journal of History of Ideas], 2-3.

2006 The cultural politics of ‘denomination of origin’ in Andalusia. In Ethics and the Politics of Food, eds. Mathias Kaiser and Marianne Lien. Wageningen: Wageningen Academic Publishers.

2006 The fragile tale of Egyptian Jewish cuisine: Food Memoirs of Claudia Roden and Colette Rossant. Food and Foodways, 14(1).

2005 Life upside down: Women and silent crises in the Middle East. Pakistan Journal of Women's Studies: Alam‐e‐Niswan, 12(1).

2005 Stones and Stories: Engaging with complex emergencies. In Gender, religion and change in the Middle East: two hundred years of history, eds. Inger Marie Okkenhaug and Ingvild Flaskerud. Oxford: Berg Publishers.

Documentary film

2009 “War, Women, Welfare in Jerusalem" (Nominated in the Al Jazeera documentary film festival 2010).

 

2010 – : Coordinator “Politics of Faith”, CMI.

2010 -2013: Project manager of “Muslim devotional practices, aesthetics, and cultural formation in migrancy” funded by the The Research Council of Norway (RCN).

2009-2013: “Assisting Regional Universities in Sudan” (ARUS) project funded by The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2009-2012: ”Enabling Local Voices” NUFU funded.

2005-2008: “Global Moments in the Levant”. Funded by RCN.(Project manager: Leif Manger)