Attiya Ahmad

Attiya Ahmad is Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at George Washington University (Washington, DC, US) and has held fellowships at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (Oxford, United Kingdom), Zentrum Moderner Orient (Berlin, Germany), Boğaziçi University (Istanbul, Turkey) and the Stanford Humanities Centre (Palo Alto, US.) Broadly conceived, her research focuses on the gendered interrelation of contemporary Islamic movements and political economic processes in the transnational Middle East.  She is the author of the multiple award winning book Everyday Conversions: Islam, Domestic Work and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait. She is currently working on a multi-sited ethnographic research project examining the emergence of global halal tourism networks spanning Turkey, Spain, Gulf Cooperation Council states, the United Kingdom, Singapore and Malaysia with support from National Science Foundation and an ALCS/Luce Religion Journalism and International Affairs Fellowship.