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Christa Salamandra

 
Christa Salamandra is Visiting Professor at The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University, Sweden, and Associate Professor of Anthropology at Lehman College and the Graduate Center, The City University of New York. She is the author of A New Old Damascus: Authenticity and Distinction in Urban Syria (Indiana University Press, 2004), and numerous articles on visual media and urban culture in the Arab world. She is currently writing a book-length ethnography of Syrian television drama production. For more information, visit: http://www.christasalamandra.net/.   

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