el-Sayed el-Aswad

El-Sayed el-Aswad  received his doctorate degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He served as a professor of anthropology- Department of Sociology at United Arab Emirates University. He served as the Chair of Sociology Dept. at the  United Arab Emirates University. He  has previously taught at Wayne State University (USA), Tanta University Egypt), and Bahrain University. He has been awarded fellowships from various institutes including the Fulbright Program, Ford Foundation, Egyptian government, and United Arab Emirates. He is a member of Editorial Advisory Boards of Muslims in Global Societies Series,  and Islamic Guidance And Counseling Journal (IGCJ), Co-editor of CyberOrient:  Online Journal of the Virtual Middle East and contributing editor: Tabsir: Insight on Islam and the Middle East. He is a member of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), the Middle Eastern Studies of North America (MESA), and American Academy of Religion (AAR). He has published widely in both Arabic and English.  He is the author of:
(2023). The Invisible Other: Rituals and Egyptian Perception of the Unknowable Anthropology of Consciousness, 34(2):434–453.
(2022). Viewing the World Through Egyptian Children’s Eyes. AAA 14(1).
(2021). Rethinking knowledge and power hierarchy in the Muslim world  In A. Fromherz and N. Samin (Eds.), Knowledge, authority and change in Islamic societies: Studies in honor of Dale Eickelman (pp. 147-161). Leiden: Brill.
(2020, December 17). [Sirgy, M. J., Estes, R., el-Aswad, el-S., & Rahtz, D. ]. Global jihad and international media use. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication. Oxford University Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.1151(2019 ). The Quality of Life and Policy Issues among the Middle East and North African Countries. Springer International Publishing (New York, NY: Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
(2019 ). [with Sirgy, M. J., Estes, R., el-Aswad, el-S., & Rahtz, D. ] Combatting Jihadist terrorism through nation-building: A Quality-of-life perspective. Dordrecht: Springer International Publishers.
(2019). Keys to al-ghaib: A Cross-cultural Study. Digest of Middle East Studies,
(2019). al-Ghaib (the Invisible and Unknowable). Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion, David A. Leeming (ed.) 1-14. Springer Verlag GmbH Germany.
(2017). Islamic Care and Counseling.  In Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion, David A. Leeming (ed.) 1-14. Springer Verlag GmbH Germany DOI 
(2017). Empathy and Emerging Worldviews. In Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion, David A. Leeming (ed.). Springer Verlag GmbH Germany.
(2016). Political Challenges Confronting the Islamic World. In Habib Tiliouine and Richard J. Estes (eds.) The State of Social Progress of Islamic Societies: Social, Economic, Political, and Ideological Challenges Chapter 16, pp.361-377.  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-24774-8_16. Springer.
(2016). State, Nation and Islamism in Contemporary Egypt: An Anthropological Perspective. Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development. 45 (1-2), 63-92.
(2016). Social and Spatial Organization Patterns in the Traditional House: A Case Study of Al Ain City, UAE. In Transformations of the Emirati National House, Yasser Elsheshtawi (ed.), pp: 190-203. Abu Dhabi: UAE-Culture Press. 
(2015). “From Traditional Charity to Global Philanthropy: Dynamics of the Culture of Giving and Volunteerism in the United Arab Emirates,” Horizons in Humanities and Social Sciences: An International Refereed Journal, 1 (1), 1-21.
(2012). Muslim Worldviews and Everyday Lives. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, Rowman & Littlefield Publisher.
(2002).  Religion and Folk Cosmology:  Scenarios of the Visible and Invisible in Rural Egypt.  Westport, CT: Praeger Press (2002) http://www.greenwood.com/books/BookDetail.asp?dept_id=1&sku=H924, 
(2002). Symbolic Anthropology: A Critical Comparative Study of Current Interpretative Approaches of Culture. Alexandria: Munsha’at al-Ma’arif. 
(2010).“Dreams and the Construction of Reality: Symbolic Transformation of the Seen and Unseen in the Egyptian Imagination," Anthropos, 105 (2): 441-453.
(2010). Narrating the Self among Arab Americans: A Bridging Discourse Between Arab tradition and American Culture. Digest of Middle East Studies, 19 (2): 234-248.
(2010). The Perceptibility of the Invisible Cosmology: Religious Rituals and Embodied Spirituality among the Bahraini Shi‘a,” Anthropology of the Middle East, 5 (2): 2010: 59–76.
2006. “Spiritual Genealogy: Sufism and Saintly Places in the Nile Delta”, International Journal of Middle East Studies, 36: 501-518.
(2005). Creation Myth, in Archetypes and Motifs in Folklore: A Handbook, Jane Garry and Hasan El-Shamy (eds.), Armonk NY: M. E. Sharpe, Inc. 
(2005). The Nature of the Creator, in Archetypes and Motifs in Folklore: A Handbook, Jane Garry and Hasan El-Shamy (eds.), Armonk NY: M. E. Sharpe, Inc.