CyberOrient
Online Journal of the Virtual Middle East

ISSN 1804-3194

Editor-in-Chief

Daniel Martin Varisco
President, American Institute for Yemeni Studies
22 High Pine
Glen Cove, NY 11542
dmvarisco@gmail.com

Managing Editor

Vit Sisler
New Media Studies
Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship
Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague
U Krize 8, Praha 5, 158 00
(+420) 251 080 205 (office)
vit.sisler@ff.cuni.cz

Editorial Board

Thomas Phillip Abowd, Anthropology, Tufts University

Najwa Adra, Anthropology, Independent Consultant

Jon Anderson, Anthropology, Catholic University of America

Walter Armbrust, St. Antony’s College, Oxford University

El Sayed El Aswad, Sociology, United Arab Emirates University

Magnus Bernhardsson, History, Williams College

Peter Biella, Anthropology, San Francisco State University

Gary R. Bunt, Religious Studies & Islamic Studies, University of Wales, Lampeter

miriam cooke, Asian & African Languages & Literature, Duke University

Omar Dewachi, American University of Beirut

Mona Eltahawy, Independent Journalist

Mustafa E. Gurbuz, Sociology, University of Connecticut

Charles Hirschkind, Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Amir Hussain, Loyola Marymount University

Sahar Khamis, Department of Communication, University of Maryland

Jens Kreinath, Anthropology, Wichita State University

Kathryn Kueny, Religion, Fordham University

Bruce B. Lawrence, Religion, Duke University

Rüdiger Lohlker, Oriental Studies, University of Vienna

Ronald Lukens-Bull, Anthropology, University of North Florida

Leif Manger, Anthropology, University of Bergen

Gabriele Marranci, Asia Research Institute, National University Singapore

Mark Allen Peterson, Anthropology, Miami University of Ohio

Hussein Rashid, Religion, Hofstra University

Christa Salamandra, The City University of New York

Laury Silvers, Religion, University of Toronto

Gregory Starrett, Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Ted Swedenburg, Anthropology, University of Arkansas