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Philip Carl Salzman
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Biography:
Philip Carl Salzman, B.A. (Antioch), M.A., Ph.D. (Chicago) is Professor of Anthropology, McGill University, Canada, and the 2009-2010 Houtan Senior Visiting Fellow in the Anthropology of Iran at St. Andrews University, Scotland. He is the author of Culture and Conflict in the Middle East (Humanity, 2008), and co-editor of Postcolonial Theory and the Arab-Israel Conflict, (Routledge, 2008). In 2009, Professor Salzman received the Presidential Award from Scholars for Peace in the Middle East.
Philip Carl Salzman, B.A. (Antioch), M.A., Ph.D. (Chicago) is Professor of Anthropology, McGill University, Canada, and the 2009-2010 Houtan Senior Visiting Fellow in the Anthropology of Iran at St. Andrews University, Scotland. He is the author of Culture and Conflict in the Middle East (Humanity, 2008), and co-editor of Postcolonial Theory and the Arab-Israel Conflict, (Routledge, 2008). In 2009, Professor Salzman received the Presidential Award from Scholars for Peace in the Middle East.
Professor Salzman applies his expertise in the study of tribal societies to contemporary conflicts. He has conducted ethnographic research primarily among nomadic and pastoral peoples, in Baluchistan (Iran), Rajasthan (India), and most recently in Sardinia (Italy). His research focuses on the upsurge of religiously motivated, political extremism in the Middle East. He also investigates how Islamist groups have put royal and nationalist regimes on the defensive.
Professor Salzman's more recent research looks at the treatment of minorities in Iran. Specifically, he examines how Iran's claims of morality have been undermined by its blatant suppression of democracy, and its brutal destruction of the opposition press. Ethnic, religious, and linguistic minorities in Iran have seen their rights crushed. Arabs, Kurds, Turks, Turkmen, and Baluch; Sunnis, Christians, Bahais, Jews; all have been smothered by Persian Shia dominance and imposition.
Professor Salzman publishes regularly and makes appearances in the electronic media.
Bedouin Warriors Know How to Fight
The opposition fighting against the Gaddafi regime is described, not unsympathetically, as “a motley army of poorly armed civilian volunteers.” But what the article does not tell us about the opposition fighters is that they are almost all Bedouin tribesmen, who make up the majority of Libyan citizens, along with Berber tribesmen. Their distant and recent ancestors were storied warriors, who from time immemorial fought with one another for tribal glory, and who united under the banner of the Sanusi Sufi Order to fight two lengthy wars against modern Italian armies that invaded Libya before the First World War. more...
Bedouin Warriors Know How to Fight
The opposition fighting against the Gaddafi regime is described, not unsympathetically, as “a motley army of poorly armed civilian volunteers.” But what the article does not tell us about the opposition fighters is that they are almost all Bedouin tribesmen, who make up the majority of Libyan citizens, along with Berber tribesmen. Their distant and recent ancestors were storied warriors, who from time immemorial fought with one another for tribal glory, and who united under the banner of the Sanusi Sufi Order to fight two lengthy wars against modern Italian armies that invaded Libya before the First World War. more...