Smadar Lavie
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Smadara Lavie is a Mizrahi Jew born and raised in Israel. She received her BA in Social Anthropology from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1980. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley in 1989 (Majors: Sociology and Social Anthropology; Minors: Medieval Islamic Civilization, Musicology).
She co-edited "Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity," an important book in the study of diasporas, borders, identity, racism in Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Studies.
She extensively lived with the Mzeina Bedouin and wrote "The Poetics of Military Occupation: Mzeina Allegories of Bedouin Identity Under Israeli and Egyptian Rule."
In 1999 Professor Lavie gave up her University of California Professorship and returned to Israel.
External links
- [Resume of Smadar Lavie]
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