Daniel Martin Varisco
Professor of Anthropology
Department of Anthropology
Hofstra University
Hempstead, New York 11549
email: Daniel.M.Varisco@hofstra.edu
office phone: (516) 463-5590
office fax: (516) 463-6250
main website: http://people.hofstra.edu/faculty/daniel_m_varisco/hofdan.html
media page: http://www.ahjur.org/media.html
Major Posts
About that Surge (2/25/08)
Addicted to Oil: President Tells it Like it Is (2/1/06)
AhmadineBush (7/13/09)
Another Blow for the Horn of Africa (12/26/06)
Antebellum and Our Civil Bellyache (11/28/07)
Anthropo covertus: A Disputed Species (10/5/07)
Apocalypse Watch: And it's God Awful (8/6/07)
Apostasy in Islam (12/16/07)
April through March Fools (4/3/09)
Arabia, A Poem from 1815 (11/18/07)
The Baraka 500 (4/23/10)
Bin Laden: Another Sequel (9/8/07)
Blackwater vs. Backwater (9/27/07)
Blame it on Lady Gaga (4/1/10)
Bombs Away (8/6/06)
Bulldozing the [Arti]Facts (9/13/07)
Burning Bodies, Burning Bridges (10/23/05)
Burqas vs. Bikinis (7/24/09)
Burqas and High Heels (11/5/09)
Can't Win for Losing (8/14/06)
Darwin at 200 (2/12/09)
David vs Goliath, the IDF vs Hamas (1/2/09)
Daydreams and Arabian Nights (3/27/09)
Déjà Voodoo (11/23/07)
Delta Farce: Jihad in Somalia? (4/29/07)
Disproportional Suffering (1/25/09)
Divide and Think You Conquer (5/3/07)
Down the wrong chimney (12/11/08)
Earth-shaking cleavage (4/28/10)
Eden is Lost (7/17/07)
Entitled to consideration and respect (1/15/09)
Exodus Redux (1/23/08)
Facebook vs. the Holy Book (5/20/10)
Faces of the Fallen (5/8/07)
Fascination with Fez (8/25/07)
Fat Chance Fatwas (6/13/07)
Fear of Mosques (9/27/07)
Flipping through Yemen a Millennium Ago (5/21/09)
For Lust of Reading (7/11/07)
The Fortress of Saone and Salah al-Din, 1 (7/1/09)
The Fortress of Saone and Salah al-Din, 2 (7/13/09)
For Whom the Toll Rings a Bell (8/11/06)
The Forbidden Fruit of the Iraq War (5/29/07)
Gangs of Thugs (3/27/08)
The Gates of Gaza (6/15/07)
Gobble, Gobble, Gobble: How Bad Can It Get? (11/26/06)
God is my co-sniper (1/22/10)
Going (after) Muslim (11/18/09)
Gone to Pottery Barn (12/8/06)
GQ not for Osama’s HQ (1/18/06)
Guns and Bibles (5/5/09)
Hamas and Ibn Khaldun: Going for the Cycle? (5/14/07)
Hariri Lives on in Lebanon (6/12/09)
Hate the One Your With (2/22/06)
Hate, Times Squared (5/6/10)
“Hath Slain His Thousands” (10/13/06)
Have Felix, will travel (8/17/08)
Healing Herbs in Yemen (9/23/09)
Hear Ye, Hear Ye (10/12/07)
Headlines, Heads Turn, Heads Roll (1/30/06)
Hijab, Raw Meat and Catnip (10/28/06)
Hillbilly Heaven and Muslim Paradise (1/18/08)
Holy War over Papal Bull (9/15/06)
Homeland Security in Wolves' Clothing (10/11/06)
How Pundits Fuel Nonsense (10/10/06)
Human Waist (11/14/05)
If Lincoln Had Seen “Aladdin” (4/14/08)
If only Abraham had known … (2/1/10)
If your name is Khan… (3/9/10)
Ignorance is no Excuse (11/1/09)
Imagine a world without football (11/13/07)
The Influence of Edward W. Said (12/23/09)
In God We Strut (7/30/06)
In Iraq, Mourning Has Broken on a Bridge to the Past (9/5/05)
Innocent with no chance to be proven guilty (10/11/07)
Introducing “Reading Orientalism” (6/22/08)
An Iraqi Diplomat (6/14/07)
Is There a Middle East? (5/9/06)
Islam Obscured (7/31/06)
Islamic Folk Astronomy #1 (1/30/10)
Islamic Folk Astronomy #2 (2/4/10)
Islamic Folk Astronomy #3 (2/16/10)
Islamic Folk Astronomy #4 (3/4/10)
Islamic Folk Astronomy #5 (4/8/10)
Islamophobia 101, A call to analyse (4/2/09)
Islamophobia and MisIslamothropes (4/13/09)
Jihad for Jesus? (3/30/10)
Killing Time (11/25/08)
The Last Halloween Remake in Amman (11/13/05)
Letters of an Egyptian Kafir (5/6/07)
Like a Virgin, but not for the very first time (12/10/09)
Lithographica Arabica 1 (12/23/08)
Mahdi as Hell: Look out Darwin (7/18/07)
Making “Medieval” Islam Meaningful (5/30/08)
A Man, A Sign, a War (12/2/07)
Mahdi Madness and the 2008 Election (5/20/08)
Map Happy for Jesus (12/6/06)
May Day, May Day (5/1/07)
McGuffey Speaks to Abramoff (1/8/06)
Mob Rule on a Featherbed (9/1/06)
Mocha Musings #1: Mecca and Arabia (2/12/10)
More than just (a) war (12/11/09)
Much Ado about Something Rotten in Denmark (4/7/06)
Mullah Atari (4/20/08)
Mumbai and the Blame Game (11/29/08)
Muslims on the American Landscape (2/26/08)
Naked and with Shame (3/15/06)
Names of the Dead (4/18/07)
Napoleon Tried It; He Failed (4/12/07)
New Website on Islamophobia in the 2008 Election (8/10/08)
Niqab and the Social Contract (8/28/08)
Not So Swift Boat Apostasy (5/13/08)
Not Knowing the Enemy (10/18/06)
Observations on the Baboons in the Garden of the “Bostan” Restaurant (1) (1/14/08)
Observations on the Baboons in the Garden of the “Bostan” Restaurant (2) (1/14/08)
On Colonels, pantyhose and honor killings (5/2/10)
On the Eve of Modernity (7/31/06)
On God and Obama: When Wright is Wrong (7/15/09)
On the honor of being dissed (3/20/10)
On Yemen (and some a bit off) (1/19/10)
Opening the Quran (3/13)
Orientalism's Wake (9/16/09)
Out on an Amputated Limb (11/5/07)
Patriots Act While Politicians Talk (12/20/05)
The Pew Poll on American Muslims (6/1/07)
Picturing the Exodus (1/26/09)
The Problem with “Fundamentalism” (2/29/08)
The Prophet’s Medicine: Part One (6/26/07)
The Prophet’s Medicine: Part Two (7/5/07)
A Quiet Revolution in Algeria? (5/27/07)
Ramadan: Slow not fast justice (3/18/10)
Raw Footage (1/26/08)
Reading Orientalism on Rorotoko (4/4/09)
Reflections on Fieldwork in Yemen (4/7/07)
A Reporter’s Shiite, but a Historian’s Shi’a (11/18/05)
Reporting Suicide is Not Painless (10/12/05)
Reporting the Golf between Us (10/15/07)
Resolving the New Year (12/31/09)
Reviewing the Review (8/26/09)
Rizpah and the Politics of Vengeance (1/5/09)
Rummy Cute (12/3/06)
A Sad Tale of Two Cities (11/10/05)
Satanic or Silly: Does Yale Press Censorship of Cartoons Insult Muslims? (9/18/09)
Six Biblical Days of War (6/4/07)
Slam Drunk Fascism:Coming to a Campus Near You (8/29/07)
Smiting Pat Robertson for Spiting Ariel Sharon (1/6/06)
Smoke Rises in the Middle East (7/19/09)
So if it's not about religion (3/8/08)
Sociology or Anthropology? What’s the Difference? (10/2/07)
Speaking of Veiling (10/29/06)
Springtime for Osama (7/30/07)
That Next Quran Term Paper (10/27/06)
The Sunni Triangle: Where is Square One? (12/21/06)
The surge be praised but pass the ammunition (9/29/08)
Tea Party A[O]bom[a]inations (4/18/09)
This is Not an Easter Egg (4/8/07)
To Sing or to Sin? Is that the Question? (2/16/08)
Tracing the History of Qat (7/4/09)
Trial by Ordeal (10/21/05)
Trillion Dollar Baby (11/14/07)
Truth, Troops, Tooth and Clausewitz (1/9/08)
Want to Watch My Harem? (11/15/07)
Water Scarcity in Yemen (8/24/08)
What is There to Study? (1/31/08)
What Krauthammer is Missing (6/14/08)
What Would Jesus Ride (1/5/06)
What Make's a Muslim Laugh? (11/20/07)
What’s Good for Judas is Worth a Gander (2/23/06)
When Kidnapping is Not International Terrorism (1/3/06)
When Will Chemical Ali Bite the Dust? (10/20/07)
We're Not All Orientalists Now (1/9/06)
When the Fat Lady Sings (5/10/09)
Where are the Moderates? (12/8/07)
Where are We Beheading? (10/6/06)
Who’s a Muslim Heretic? (3/30/08)
The Whistle Blower Stops Here (11/3/06)
Why Minarets? (11/29/09)
With Kitto Illustrating Bible History (1/14/10)
With Ratzel in North Africa (2/24/08)
The World’s Top Intellectual is … (8/19/08)
Wrong Flag, Mr. Speaker (11/17/05)
Yemen Bashing Needs a Reality Check (12/22/05)
You’ve Gotta Be Al-Qaiding Me (12/11/07)