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
11/11/11 (11/11/11)
5,000 Years and Countin, but which way? (5/17/12)
Ablution Pollution (1/8/11)
About that Surge (2/25/08)
Addicted to Oil: President Tells it Like it Is (2/1/06)
AhmadineBush (7/13/09)
Ali Abdullah Salih and Yogi Berra (6/5/11)
Ali Abdullah Sali: Not Invincible, not Invisible (9/2/12)
Ali Abdullah Salih: Time will tell (9/30/11)
All Eyes on Egypt (1/29/11)
All Eyes on Tripoli (8/22/11)
America at Risk! (9/21/11)
An American Treaty on Religion (7/4/11)
And now, a special message from God (via Hume) (8/30/11)
And the Game Goes On in Yemen (2/24/12)
And the winner is? (6/18/12)
Another Blow for the Horn of Africa (12/26/06)
Ansar al-Sharia on the Ropes? (6/12/12)
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)
Babel: A New Post-occupation Translation (1/2/12)
The Baraka 500 (4/23/10)
Be careful what you pray for (8/12/11)
The Beast of the East (11/26/11)
Below the Arab Spring (6/23/12)
Beyond Allahu Akbar: WWMD, WWJD, WWYD (9/22/12)
Bin Laden: Another Sequel (9/8/07)
Bin Who? Bin Laden? (12/5/10)
Black Friday through Black Thursday Over and Over Again (11/23/12)
Blackwater vs. Backwater (9/27/07)
Blame it on Lady Gaga (4/1/10)
Body Politics: Muhammad and Middleton (9/26/12)
Bombs Away (8/6/06)
Bulldozing the [Arti]Facts (9/13/07)
Buried Texts Recovered: An American Consul goes to Bethlehem, 1 (12/25/10)
Buried Texts Recovered: An American Consul goes to Bethlehem, 2 (12/29/10)
Buried Texts Recovered: An American Consulin the Holy Land (12/24/10)
Burning Bodies, Burning Bridges (10/23/05)
Burqas vs. Bikinis (7/24/09)
Burqas and High Heels (11/5/09)
Camping Out for the Rapture (10/25/11)
Can't Win for Losing (8/14/06)
Cinematic Contending with the Companions 8/15/12
Comment peut-on être Persan? (7/12/12)
Consuming halal or letting halal consume you 8/6/12
Covering Afghanistan (7/31/10)
Crisis Hopping (5/27/11)
Damn naked: why is it such a problem? (11/17/11)
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)
dilly dally, ya Ali (5/22/11)
Disproportional Suffering (1/25/09)
Divide and Think You Conquer (5/3/07)
Doha Déjà Vu (12/25/12)
Down the wrong chimney (12/11/08)
Earth-shaking cleavage (4/28/10)
Economisstep 8/22/10
Eden is Lost (7/17/07)
An End to Creationism (5/29/12)
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)
For the Love of Jesus (3/16/12)
Forever counting down (8/22/12)
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)
Forever Counting Down (8/22/12)
The Forbidden Fruit of the Iraq War (5/29/07)
Gaddafi: odd and daffy to the end (2/25/11)
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)
Googling the End of the World (5/8/12)
GQ not for Osama’s HQ (1/18/06)
Grease Monkeys and Bedouin Girls (1/6/11)
Guns and Bibles (5/5/09)
Guns don't kill, neither do guns die (1/13/11)
Hamas and Ibn Khaldun: Going for the Cycle? (5/14/07)
The haram that is not sacred (11/6/11)
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)
Hell to Pay? 7/30/12
High Heels, Cucumbers and Fat-Chance Fatwas (12/9/11)
Hijab, Raw Meat and Catnip (10/28/06)
Hillbilly Heaven and Muslim Paradise (1/18/08)
History repeats itself: The case of Egypt (4/23/11)
Holy War over Papal Bull (9/15/06)
Homeland Security in Wolves' Clothing (10/11/06)
Horn Talk in Lamu (6/1/10)
Hosni Mubarak and Don Giovanni (2/11/11)
Hostages and the Yemeni Crisis (11/15/11)
How much more blodd to be spilled? (5/27/12)
How Pundits Fuel Nonsense (10/10/06)
How Safe is Home (3/25/12)
How to protest peacefully (5/28/11)
Human Waist (11/14/05)
Ibn Abi Bakr al-Azraq on Massage Oils: #1 6/29/10)
Ibn Big Ben (12/30/10)
Iconoclasm again (6/22/12)
If the Devil is in the Details, the Winner Is (11/5/12)
If Lincoln Had Seen “Aladdin” (4/14/08)
If only Abraham had known … (2/1/10)
If Salih read the Qur’an (4/17/11)
If a young [Arab] man wants sex (9/14/11)
If your name is Khan… (3/9/10)
If war is still hell, does that mean it no longer exists? 10/16/10
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)
International Women's Day (3/18/12)
Introducing “Reading Orientalism” (6/22/08)
An Iraqi Diplomat (6/14/07)
Is 4 million enough to get the point? (9/24/11)
Is It Over Over There? (12/15/12)
Is There a Middle East? (5/9/06)
Is there one “Islam” or many “islams”? (9/3/10)
Is this the last dance for Ali? (5/25/11)
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)
Last Day in Lamu (6/6/10)
The Last Halloween Remake in Amman (11/13/05)
Letters of an Egyptian Kafir (5/6/07)
Let's Play Spot the Muslim 10/24/10
Like a Virgin, but not for the very first time (12/10/09)
Lithographica Arabica 1 (12/23/08)
Loving Yemen (12/6/10)
Mahdi as Hell: Look out Darwin (7/18/07)
Making “Medieval” Islam Meaningful (5/30/08)
Malala and Malevolence (10/16/12)
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)
Michele Bachmann, VIP 7/20/12
Miniskirting the Issue (3/18/12)
Mob Rule on a Featherbed (9/1/06)
Mocha Musings #1: Mecca and Arabia (2/12/10)
Moderate but Islamist (7/13/12)
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)
The Muslim Problem (9/15/12)
Muslims of Color (9/2/11)
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)
Newsweak (9/17/12)
Niqab and the Social Contract (8/28/08)
A “no fly” in the ointment (3/18/11)
No food for thought (7/12/11
No Olive Branch in Gaza (12/3/12)
Not So Swift Boat Apostasy (5/13/08)
Not Knowing the Enemy (10/18/06)
The Obama Blame Game (8/16/10)
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)
One for the record books (6/13/11)
Opening the Quran (3/13)
Orientalism's Wake (9/16/09)
Orientalist Cheesecake (11/12/12)
Out on an Amputated Limb (11/5/07)
Paris Conquers Mecca (11/26/12)
Patriots Act While Politicians Talk (12/20/05)
Payback for No Pay (7/9/10)
The Peace Push and Shove (10/19/11)
The Pew Poll on American Muslims (6/1/07)
The Picture (12/21/12)
Picturing the Exodus (1/26/09)
Pizza my Mind (11/20/10)
A plot against all the Yemen people (9/19/11)
Plot of the Day (10/12/11)
The Politics of Ramadan (9/1/11)
Pornographic War Gazing: Why We Don’t Look Away (4/16/11)
Poster War on the New York Subway (10/8/12)
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)
The Quran as a Great Book: Muslim Perspcctives (8/25/12)
The Quran as a Great Book: Muslim Perspcctives, 2 (8/26/12)
The Quran as a Great Book: Muslim Perspcctives, 3 (8/27/12)
The Quran as a Great Book: Muslim Perspcctives, 4 (8/28/12)
The Quran as a Great Book: Muslim Perspcctives, 5 (8/29/12)
The Quran as a Great Book: Muslim Perspcctives, 6 (8/30/12)
Racing from Dubai to Tripoli (3/28/11)
Ramadan: Slow not fast justice (3/18/10)
Raw Footage (1/26/08)
Reading Orientalism on Rorotoko (4/4/09)
The Real War on Women (5/1/12)
Rediscovering the Uncovering of King Tut (12/10/10)
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)
Revealing the News 8/20/12
Reviewing the Review (8/26/09)
Rizpah and the Politics of Vengeance (1/5/09)
The Road to Damascus (6/26/12)
Romney up against the wall 7/31/12
Rummy Cute (12/3/06)
A Sad Tale of Two Cities (11/10/05)
A Salacious Salafi (7/7/12)
Salih and Groucho: “Hello, I must be going” (10/9/11)
Sanity through Inanity (10/31/10
Satanic or Silly: Does Yale Press Censorship of Cartoons Insult Muslims? (9/18/09)
Sharing our Values (3/26/12)
Sic gloria mundi transit (10/21/11)
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)
Still no Irhal for Ali (8/15/11)
The State of Agriculture in Late 13th Century Rasulid Yemen (8/13/11)
The State of Agriculture in Late 13th Century Rasulid Yemen, #2 (8/14/11)
The State of Agriculture in Late 13th Century Rasulid Yemen, 3 (8/16/11)
The State of Agriculture in Late 13th Century Rasulid Yemen, 4 (8/17/11)
The State of Agriculture in Late 13th Century Rasulid Yemen, 5 (9/5/11)
Still in a Pretty Pass... (1/1/11)
Streaming Revolution, Screaming Revolution (2/5/11)
That Settles It (12/1/12)
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)
That Next Quran Term Paper (10/27/06)
This is Not an Easter Egg (4/8/07)
Timbuktu too . . .(6/30/12)
To Sing or to Sin? Is that the Question? (2/16/08)
A Tale of Two Brothers (2/17/12)
A third of a century and counting… (10/5/11)
To hell with Bin Laden? (5/3/11)
Tracing the History of Qat (7/4/09)
Travels with Ibn al-Mujabbir #1 (1710/12)
Travels with Ibn al-Mujabbir #2 (7/11/12)
Travels with Ibn al-Mujabbir #3 (7/16/12)
Travels with Ibn al-Mujabbir #4 7/21/12
Trial by Ordeal (10/21/05)
Trillion Dollar Baby (11/14/07)
Truth, Troops, Tooth and Clausewitz (1/9/08)
Tuning into Tunisia (1/22/11)
Turning a New Page in an Old Book (12/11/12)
Unequally Yoked is no Joke (10/30/12)
Varisco on WBEZ (3/27/12)
Vote but don’t drive (9/28/11)
Votes that count ... this time in Egypt (6/23/12)
The Wacky Wiki Leaks (11/29/10)
Want to Watch My Harem? (11/15/07)
Water Scarcity in Yemen (8/24/08)
Welcome to America (12/27/11)
What is There to Study? (1/31/08)
What Krauthammer is Missing (6/14/08)
What (who) drives Muslim women (7/3/12)
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)
Where is the salam dunk? (6/20/12)
Who’s a Muslim Heretic? (3/30/08)
The Whistle Blower Stops Here (11/3/06)
Why are the Gods absent? (8/19/11)
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)
Worth a Response: Why Yemen is not Afghanistan 7/14/10
Wrong Flag, Mr. Speaker (11/17/05)
Yemen after Ali Abdullah Salih (4/24/11)
Yemen Bashing Needs a Reality Check (12/22/05)
The Yemen Elections: No Surprises (2/22/12)
Yemen is not a Terrorist Factory (11/9/10)
Yemen is not Tunisia, not Egypt (2/1/11)
Yemeni woman shares Nobel Peace Prize (10/7/11)
You’ve Gotta Be Al-Qaiding Me (12/11/07)
The Zero/Sum Game and Israel (11/13/11)