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Kamran Asdar Ali is a Professor and Department Chair at the University of Texas at Austin, focusing on anthropology, Middle Eastern studies, and Asian studies. He served as the Director of the South Asia Institute from 2011 to 2017. His notable works include 'Planning Family in Egypt: New Bodies, New Selves' (UT Press, 2002), 'Gendering Urban Space in the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa' (Palgrave, 2008), 'Comparing Cities: The Middle East and South Asia' (Oxford, 2009), and 'Gender, Politics, and Performance in South Asia' (Oxford, 2015). Ali has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and has participated in fellowships at prestigious institutions like ISIM, University of Leiden and Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin. His research interests encompass gender, sexuality, health, political economy, post-colonialism, labor history, and popular culture, with significant publications addressing these themes in relation to Egypt and Pakistan.
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