Daniel Martin Varisco

Professor of Anthropology and Chair
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)

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)

Arabia, A Poem from 1815 (11/18/07)

Bin Laden: Another Sequel (9/8/07)

Blackwater vs. Backwater (9/27/07)

Bombs Away (8/6/06)

Bulldozing the [Arti]Facts (9/13/07)

Burning Bodies, Burning Bridges (10/23/05)

Can't Win for Losing (8/14/06)

Déjà Voodoo (11/23/07)

Delta Farce: Jihad in Somalia? (4/29/07)

Diatribing Islamo Fascism: an open [civilised] debate (or at least we hope so) (9/12/07)

Divide and Think You Conquer (5/3/07)

Eden is Lost (7/17/07)

Exodus Redux (1/23/08)

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)

For Lust of Reading (7/11/07)

For Whom the Toll Rings a Bell (8/11/06)

The Forbidden Fruit of the Iraq War (5/29/07)

The Gates of Gaza (6/15/07)

Gobble, Gobble, Gobble: How Bad Can It Get? (11/26/06)

Gone to Pottery Barn (12/8/06)

GQ not for Osama’s HQ (1/18/06)

Hamas and Ibn Khaldun: Going for the Cycle? (5/14/07)

Hate the One Your With (2/22/06)

“Hath Slain His Thousands” (10/13/06)

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 Watched “Aladdin”…

Imagine a world without football (11/13/07)

Image Wars and Westernization (9/11/07)

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)

An Iraqi Diplomat (6/14/07)

Is There a Middle East? (5/9/06)

Islam Obscured (7/31/06)

The Last Halloween Remake in Amman (11/13/05)

Letters of an Egyptian Kafir (5/6/07)

Mahdi as Hell: Look out Darwin (7/18/07)

A Man, A Sign, a War (12/2/07)

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)

Much Ado about Something Rotten in Denmark (4/7/06)

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)

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 the Eve of Modernity (7/31/06)

Opening the Quran (3/13)

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)

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)

Raw Footage (1/26/08)

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)

Rummy Cute (12/3/06)

A Sad Tale of Two Cities (11/10/05)

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)

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)

This is Not an Easter Egg (4/8/07)

To Sing or to Sin? Is that the Question? (2/16/08)

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)

What is There to Study? (1/31/08)

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)

Where are the Moderates? (12/8/07)

Where are We Beheading? (10/6/06)

The Whistle Blower Stops Here (11/3/06)

With Ratzel in North Africa (2/24/08)

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)