Donald Cole (anthropologist)

Academic positions

• The American University in Cairo

• University of California, Berkeley

• The University of Chicago

• University of Texas, Austin

• Georgetown University

Books

• Road to Islām: From Texas to Saudi Arabia and Egypt / Donald Powell Cole. Cairo: Al-Madinah Press, 2010.
• Bedouins of the Empty Quarter / Donald Powell Cole. New Jersey: Aldine Transaction, 2010.
• Bedouin, settlers, and holiday makers : Egypt's changing northwest cast / Donald P. Cole, Soraya Altorki. 1998.
• Investors and Workers in the Western Desert of Egypt: An Exploratory Survey / Donald Powell Cole, Naiem A. Sherbiny and Nadia Makary Girgis. Cairo: Cairo Papers in Social Science, Volume 15, Monograph 3. 1992.
• Arabian oasis city : the transformation of ʻUnayzah / Soraya Altorki and Donald P. Cole. Austin : University of Texas Press, 1989.
• Saudi Arabian Bedouin: An Assessment of their Needs / Donald Powell Cole and Saad Eddin Ibrahim. Cairo: Cairo Papers in Social Science, Volume 5, Monograph 1. 1978.
• Nomads of the nomads : the Āl Murrah Bedouin of the Empty Quarter / Donald Powell Cole. 1975 ,

  Other published works

• 1971 “Al Murrah Bedouin: The ‘Pure Ones’ Rove Arabia’s Empty Sands.” In Nomads of the World, 52-71. Washington, DC: The National Geographic Society.
• 1973 “Bedouin of the Oil Fields.” Natural History LXXXII:94-103.
• 1973 “The Enmeshment of Nomads in Saudi Arabian Society: The Case of the Al Murrah.” In The Desert and the Sown: Nomads in the Wider Society, ed. Cynthia Nelson, 113-128. Berkeley: University of California, Institute of International Studies, Research Series, Number 21.
• 1980 “Pastoral Nomads in a Rapidly Changing Economy: The Case of Saudi Arabia.” In Social and Economic Development in the Arab Gulf, ed. Timothy Niblock, 106-121. London: Croom Helm.
• 1982 “Tribal and Non-Tribal Structures among the Bedouin of Saudi Arabia.” Al-Abhath XXX:77-94.
• 1984 “Alliance and Descent in the Middle East and the ‘Problem’ of Patrilateral Parallel Cousin Marriage.” In Islam in Tribal Societies: From the Atlas to the Indus, eds. Akbar S. Ahmed and David M. Hart, 169-186. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
• 1984 “Modern Egypt.” Discovery 8:8-12..
• 1985 “The Bedouin in a Changing World.” Cairo Today 6:23-31.
• 1990 “Mujtama’a ma qabl an-naft fi al-jazirah al-‘arabiyyah: fawdah qabiliyyah am mujtama’a muraqab.” Al-Mustaqbal al-‘arabi 11:41-53..
• 1992 “Was Arabia Tribal? A Reinterpretation of the Pre-Oil Society.” Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies XV:71-87.
• 1993 “Commerce et production dans le nord de l’Aarabie centrale: changement et development a ‘Unayzah.” In Steppes d’Arabies: Etats, pasteurs, agriculture et commerçants: le devinir des zones seches, eds. Riccardo Bocco, Ronald Jaubert, and Francoise Metral, 247-265. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France; Geneva: Cahiers de L’I.U.E.D..
• 1994 “Private Sector Enterprises in Desert Development in Egypt.” In Land Reclamation and Development in Egypt, ed. Mohammed Atif Kishk, 401-414. Minia: Minia University Press.
• 1996 “Land Tenure, Bedouin, and Development in the Northwest Coast.” In Sustainable Development in Egypt: Current and Emerging Challenges, 108-110. Cairo: The American University in Cairo, Office of Graduate Studies and Research.
• 1997 “Change in Saudi Arabia: A View from ‘Paris of Najd.’” In Arab Society: Class, Gender, Power and Development, eds. Nicholas S. Hopkins and Saad Eddin Ibrahim, 29-52. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press..
• 1997 “‘Unayzah, le ‘Paris du Najd’: le changement en Arabie saoudite.” Monde arabe: Maghreb-Machrek 156:3-22..
• 1998 “Guide to the MT09 Libyan Bedouin File.” HRAF Collection of Ethnography, Installment 47. New Haven: Human Relations Area Files.
• 1998 “Agro-Pastoralism and Development in Egypt’s Northwest Coast.” In Directions of Change in Rural Egypt, eds. Nicholas S. Hopkins and Kirsten Westergaard, 318-333. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press..
• 1998 “The Northwest Coast: A Part of Rural Egypt?” In Directions of Change in Rural Egypt, eds. Nicholas S. Hopkins and Kirsten Westergaard, 130-143. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press..
• 1998 “Twenty Years of Desert Development in Egypt.” Cairo Papers in Social Science 21:44-54..
• 2000 “Production and Trade in North Central Arabia: Change and Development in ‘Unayzah.” In The Transformation of Nomadic Society in the Arab East, eds. Martha Mundy and Basim Musallam, 145-159. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• 2001 “Saudi Arabia.” In Countries and their Cultures, eds. Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember, 1927-1939. New York: Macmillan Reference
• 2002 “Riyadh.” Encyclopedia of Urban Cultures, eds. Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember, 4:38-45. Danbury, CT: Grolier.
• 2003 Anthropological Quarterly 76:235-267.
• 2005 “Al Murrah Tribes in the Days of King ‘Abd al-‘Aziz.”
• 2006 “New Homes, New Occupations, New Pastoralism: Al Murrah Bedouin, 1968-2003.” In Nomadic Societies in the Middle East and North Africa: Entering the 21st Century, ed. Dawn Chatty, 370-392. Leiden and Boston: Brill.
• 2006 “Land and Identity among Awlad ‘Ali Bedouin: Egypt’s Northwest Coast.” In Nomadic Societies in the Middle East and North Africa: Entering the 21st Century, ed. Dawn Chatty, 634-653. Leiden and Boston: Brill..

  Published academic interviews

• 2000 Mark Allen Peterson. “The Long Walk II: ‘For as long as I can remember Anthropology has been reinventing itself’: An interview with Donald Powell Cole.” Nomadic Peoples 4:7-20.
• 2002 Hussein Fahim. “Hadith anthrubulujiya maa duktur Donald Cole” . Journal of the Social Sciences. Kuwait: Kuwait University, Fall 2002.