Nermeen Mouftah, PhD
Assistant Professor
Anthropology, Sociocultural
Pronouns: She/her/hers
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About
I am a critical ethnographer of ethical and political life, focusing on Muslim projects variously articulated as social welfare, development, humanitarianism, and care. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in the Arabic-speaking Middle East—and more recently, Pakistan and the United States—my research program examines Muslim responses to social inequality as they shift over time and in interaction with political power. I show how religious authorities, activists, and everyday people contend over “Islamic solutions” to problems of poverty and exclusion, and attend to the sometimes contradictory effects of their mobilizations. I am especially interested in how these Muslim social interventions intersect with and at times chafe against national, Christian, and international domains of development and humanitarianism.
Education
PhD from University of Toronto
Graduate Diploma from American University in Cairo
MA from University College London
BA from University of Toronto, Trinity College