Donald Cole (anthropologist)

Donald Powell Cole (also known as AbdAllah-Talib Donald Cole)

Donald Powell Cole (March 21, 1941 in Bryan, Texas) is a noted anthropologist at the American University in Cairo.[1] He joined the university in 1971. He is a member of the American Anthropological Association. Cole has studied Arab nomadic cultures, such as the Al Murrah, in his The Social and Economic Structure of the Āl Murrah: A Saudi Arabian Bedouin Tribe, his PhD dissertation at the University of California, Berkeley.

Cole, an American expat, currently resides in Cairo.[2][3][4]

  1. ^ Faculty page Archived January 8, 2010, at the Wayback Machine at the American University in Cairo
  2. ^ Dickey, Christopher (December 26, 1985). "A romantic Middle East image dies as Datsuns replace camels". The Toronto Star. p. D.24. Retrieved 28 January 2010.
  3. ^ Associated Press (October 6, 1997). "Crowded Egyptians would like to go with the flow". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. p. 7A. Retrieved 28 January 2010.
  4. ^ Schneider, Howard (May 7, 2004). "In Breaking Taboos, Photos Add Insult to Injury". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. p. A.24. Archived from the original on June 4, 2011. Retrieved 28 January 2010. "The idea is to humiliate people in ways . . . that really affect their manhood, their identity, their notions of shame," said Donald Cole, an anthropology ...