Ali Atef Abdelkader

Ali Atef ABDELKADER 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 in the university’s Anthropology unit at the Sociology, Anthropology, Pyschology, Egyptology department. He has an MA in socio-cultural anthropology from Columbia University (2010).