Zina Sawaf
Biographic Data
| ID | 309991 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zina Sawaf |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zina |
| FAMILY NAME | Sawaf |
| SIGNATURE | SAWAF Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lebanese American University |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-5504-6016 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Arab Family in Scholarship 1970–2022: A Narrative Review
Recently developed through an interdisciplinary and feminist methodology, the Mapping the Production of Knowledge on Women and Gender in the Arab Region (MPK) database is the first publicly available database capturing the research on women and gender in the Arab region since 1970 under the rubric of socialities. This narrative review centers one of the most cited and meaningful themes in the publications culled from the database, which is the fa…
Gender hierarchies in reporting genocide: An analysis of the dehumanization of Palestinian men in Western media
This article investigates how Western media’s coverage of the first three months of the ongoing Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, specifically the language adopted by two major Western media outlets the BBC and CNN, dehumanizes Palestinian men. This research question is answered through a quantitative methodology that applies web scraping to collect 265 articles from the BBC and 4,441 from CNN to then analyze the number of articles and occurrences o…
The Cunning of Gender Violence: Geopolitics and Feminism
Ethnography in movement: Bounding the field between the compound and the trailer in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Social anthropological research often deploys ethnographies of dwelling, following and immersing. While many of these ethnographic practices are an essential part, and a matter of fact, of simply being there, research in Riyadh requires doing fieldwork and bounding the field differently. Swathes of highways and boulevards, endless tracts of walls, individual villas and low-rise apartment buildings come to the fore and make their anonymizing and a…
Being, doing and knowing in the field: Reflections on ethnographic practice in the Arab region
This article introduces the present special issue, which focuses on the relevance of ethnographic experience to methodological practice and to understanding the conditions of social reality in the Arab region today. The authors frame this focus within an interplay between methodology and knowing the field, passing through the ethnographer’s critical self-awareness about method and prevailing field conditions, which they identify as crisis-ridden …
Youth and the revolution in Egypt: What kinship tells us
Studies of youth in Arab societies have tended to posit and explore their social exclusion, marginalization and even de-politicization. Events sparked by the January 25 uprising in Egypt have reconstructed youth in a contradictory light, hailing them as new symbols of the nation. Careful consideration of current thinking in the anthropology of kinship and the nation, however, cautions the audience of the revolution to think twice. Taking for gran…
Being, doing and knowing in the field: Reflections on ethnographic practice in the Arab region
This article introduces the present special issue, which focuses on the relevance of ethnographic experience to methodological practice and to understanding the conditions of social reality in the Arab region today. The authors frame this focus within an interplay between methodology and knowing the field, passing through the ethnographer’s critical self-awareness about method and prevailing field conditions, which they identify as crisis-ridden …
Youth and the revolution in Egypt: What kinship tells us
Studies of youth in Arab societies have tended to posit and explore their social exclusion, marginalization and even de-politicization. Events sparked by the January 25 uprising in Egypt have reconstructed youth in a contradictory light, hailing them as new symbols of the nation. Careful consideration of current thinking in the anthropology of kinship and the nation, however, cautions the audience of the revolution to think twice. Taking for gran…
Gender hierarchies in reporting genocide: An analysis of the dehumanization of Palestinian men in Western media
This article investigates how Western media’s coverage of the first three months of the ongoing Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, specifically the language adopted by two major Western media outlets the BBC and CNN, dehumanizes Palestinian men. This research question is answered through a quantitative methodology that applies web scraping to collect 265 articles from the BBC and 4,441 from CNN to then analyze the number of articles and occurrences o…
Youth and the revolution in Egypt: What kinship tells us
Studies of youth in Arab societies have tended to posit and explore their social exclusion, marginalization and even de-politicization. Events sparked by the January 25 uprising in Egypt have reconstructed youth in a contradictory light, hailing them as new symbols of the nation. Careful consideration of current thinking in the anthropology of kinship and the nation, however, cautions the audience of the revolution to think twice. Taking for gran…
Ethnography in movement: Bounding the field between the compound and the trailer in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Social anthropological research often deploys ethnographies of dwelling, following and immersing. While many of these ethnographic practices are an essential part, and a matter of fact, of simply being there, research in Riyadh requires doing fieldwork and bounding the field differently. Swathes of highways and boulevards, endless tracts of walls, individual villas and low-rise apartment buildings come to the fore and make their anonymizing and a…
Being, doing and knowing in the field: Reflections on ethnographic practice in the Arab region
This article introduces the present special issue, which focuses on the relevance of ethnographic experience to methodological practice and to understanding the conditions of social reality in the Arab region today. The authors frame this focus within an interplay between methodology and knowing the field, passing through the ethnographer’s critical self-awareness about method and prevailing field conditions, which they identify as crisis-ridden …
The Cunning of Gender Violence: Geopolitics and Feminism
Gender hierarchies in reporting genocide: An analysis of the dehumanization of Palestinian men in Western media
This article investigates how Western media’s coverage of the first three months of the ongoing Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, specifically the language adopted by two major Western media outlets the BBC and CNN, dehumanizes Palestinian men. This research question is answered through a quantitative methodology that applies web scraping to collect 265 articles from the BBC and 4,441 from CNN to then analyze the number of articles and occurrences o…
The Arab Family in Scholarship 1970–2022: A Narrative Review
Recently developed through an interdisciplinary and feminist methodology, the Mapping the Production of Knowledge on Women and Gender in the Arab Region (MPK) database is the first publicly available database capturing the research on women and gender in the Arab region since 1970 under the rubric of socialities. This narrative review centers one of the most cited and meaningful themes in the publications culled from the database, which is the fa…
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works)