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Dr. Anderson is an anthropologist who has done research on tribalism in Afghanistan, Islamic cosmology in Pakistan, Catholics in the Bible Belt South and now on the information revolution in the Middle East, where he has studied Internet pioneering in Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. He's lectured widely - recently at the universities of Westminster and Durham in the UK, Lund in Sweden, Lyon in France, MIT, Stanford, UCLA, George Washington and Georgetown, where he was co-director of the Arab Information Project of the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. His current interests are civil society, cyberculture and globalization in the Internet age, which are reflected in a keynote address on Blogging, Networked Publics and the Politics of Communication for a symposium of the University of Arizona's School of Journalism. He has served as editor of the multidisciplinary Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, Program Chair of the American Anthropological Association, chair of its Advisory Group on Electronic Communication, President of the Middle East Section of the AAA, on an SSRC Steering Committee for Information Technology & International Cooperation, on several editorial boards and is currently a member of the international board of the World Congress of Middle East Studies (WOCMES).