Scholars Online
Ian Straughn
Brown University
Filmed in January 2011.
- Why should high school students learn about what is happening in Egypt? [1:29]
- What is happening in Egypt? [1:58]
- What is the relationship between the United States and Egypt? [2:15]
- How is the U.S. government responding to the events in Egypt? [1:50]
- What role have social media and the internet played in the protests? [1:08]
- How has the media covered the protests? [1:45]
- Why do some U.S. politicians place such great emphasis on stability? [1:14]
Ian Straughn is a postdoctoral fellow in Islamic archaeology at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World and the Department of Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies at Brown University. He is also the interim Joukowsky Family Middle East Studies librarian. His research and teaching interests focus on the emerging study of the archaeology of the Muslim World. His work has concentrated on understanding how Muslim societies have been shaped by the landscapes which they have constructed and conceived and by their relationship to the material world. A major aspect of his research has consisted of developing a methodology for bringing the archaeological and textual records into a productive dialogue about past societies. Additionally, his work has sought to understand the relationship of materiality to religious experience and the place of archaeology in the study of religion. He received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago in 2006.
