Dr. Susan Slyomovics is professor of Anthropology, Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, and director of the G. E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests are gender, visual anthropology and human rights in the Middle East and North Africa. Her publications include Clifford Geertz in Morocco, editor (Routledge, 2010); Waging War and Making Peace: Reparations and Human Rights, co-editor (Left Coast Press, 2008); The Performance of Human Rights in Morocco (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005); and The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998).