Nasser Fakouhi

Who is Nasser Fakouhi?

Nasser Fakouhi is an Iranian anthropologist, writer and translator.

Nasser Fakouhi was born on 1956 to a middleclass family in Tehran, Iran. Professional publicist, writer and translator, he is an associate professor of anthropology of Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran and the president of a scientific and multidisciplinary website called Anthropology and Culture. He's also a member of International Association of Sociology and International Society of Iranian Studies.

Fakouhi obtained his PhD in political Anthropology from University of Paris in 1993. Among his most important books one can note “Political Violence”, “The History and Theories of Anthropology”, “Urban Anthropology”, “From Culture to Development”, “Iranian National and Ethnic Identities: Articulation and Conflict”. As a translator, he has published books of authors such as Roland Barthes; Pierre Bourdieu; Marc Augé and J.P. Colleyne; JMG Le Clezio; Maurice Bloch, Roland Breton, David Le Breton, etc.