Maria Frederika Malmström

Social Anthropology
M.Sc., PhD

About

Areas of interest

Egypt, Middle East, North Africa, gender, body, sexuality, politics, political violence, refugees, security.

Current research projects

Hamas between Sharia rule and Demo-Islam

Compromising Justice and Human Security in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The role of the leaders' and the grassroots’ interplay in peace building (Launching phase of interdisciplinary project with peace researchers, political scientists, science of religion and social anthropologists).

Just like couscous: gender, agency and the politics of female circumcision in Cairo (Funding: Sida/Sarec 2002-2008).

Teaching and tutoring

Teach and supervise at the undergraduate level, speaks Arabic (Egyptian dialect), like examining anthropological texts within my areas of interest and discussing anthropology outside the university, "the third task".

Field experience

• One year of fieldwork in Cairo within Ph D Project, funded by Sida/SAREC (2002-2003).
• As part of the on-going research project 'Hamas between Sharia rule and Demo-Islam´, fieldwork (5 weeks)has taken place in the West Bank (2009).
  
  

Selected conferences & presentations

Centre d’etudes et de Documentation Économiques, Juridiques et Sociales (CEDEJ, Le Caire), Gender, Cities and Local Governance in the Arab World and in the Mediterranean Region, April 14-15, 2010, Cairo, Egypt.

Sida Academy, Development Dialogue Series, Body Politics, Women’s Rights and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), Stockholm, May 7, 2010.

Genders& Sexualities in Africa: Opportunities and Challenges in the 21st Century Empire State College SUNY, Syracuse, New York, U.S.A., September 30 - October 4, 2009.

19th World Congress for Sexual Health, Gothenburg, June 21-25, 2009.

6th Nordic Medical Anthropology Conference, Gothenburg, June 11-13, 2009.

Gender Justice and Body Politics, Cape Town, February 4-6, 2009.

The 4th FOKO Conference. Female Genital Cutting in the Past and Today. Helsinki September 7-8, 2007.

Second World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies, Amman June 2006.

The Swedish Parliament, Foreign Ministry, Ministry of Health and Social Affairs. "International Meeting on Preventing and Eliminating Female Genital Mutilation" Stockholm November 2003.

The Swedish Parliament, Ministry of Health and Social Affairs. "Conference about Female Genital Mutilation" Stockholm May 2002.