Farha Ghannam is the Eugene Lang Research Professor of Anthropology at Swarthmore College. Her research and teaching interests include urban life, spatial practices, embodiment, gender, food and taste, and class politics. She is the author of Live and Die like a Man: Gender Dynamics in Urban Egypt (Stanford 2013) and Remaking the Modern: Space, Relocation, and the Politics of Identity in a Global Cairo (California 2002). Currently, she is working on a book entitled “The Gender of Class: Social Inequalities in Urban Egypt.” Her work has appeared in several journals including the American Ethnologist, Visual Anthropology, the Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, City and Society, and Ethnos. She is the president of the Association for Middle East Anthropology (AMEA). Before AMEA, she had served as the president of the Middle East Section of the AAA.