علي عاطف

Ali ATEF is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at the University of Chicago currently researching the history of film in Egypt. His research interests are in film history, archives, visual anthropology, and movement and migration. He was previously a senior researcher at The American University in Cairo’s Social Research Centre, where he also taught anthropology of Arab societies. He has an MA in socio-cultural anthropology from Columbia University (2010). Ali cooks exquisitely and has been coordinating the media lab since 2020.