Biographical Note

 

Dr Sami Zubaida

Dr Zubaida is Reader in Sociology at the School of Politics & Sociology, Birkbeck College, University of London. He is also Research Associate of the Centre for Near and Middle East Studies at SOAS. He has held visiting research and teaching posts in Cairo, Aix-en-Provence and Istanbul, and at Berkeley, California. He teaches Political Sociology and Religion, Culture and Politics on the MSc/MRes degrees, and the Formation of Modern Societies, and Magic, Science and Religion to undergraduates. His research interests are in religion, ethnicity and nationalism in Middle East culture and politics, and food and culture. Recent publications include Islam, the People and the State (1993, 2nd edition), A Taste of Thyme: Culinary Cultures of the Middle East (1994) (edited with Richard Tapper), and Law and Power in the Islamic World (2003).

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