Edith Szanto Ali-Dib
Relationships
- Relationship actions
History
- Blog
- View recent blog entries
- Member for
- 3 years 7 weeks
My Profile
- Title
- Ms.
- Occupation
- Researcher: PhD
- Discipline(s)
- Religion, Islamic Studies, Anthropology, Middle Eastern Studies
- University
- University of Toronto
- Department
- Centre and Department for the Study of Religion
- Country
- Canada
- Town / City
- Toronto
- Previous Universities
- Arizona State University, American University in Cairo, University of Texas at Austin
- my website
- http://individual.utoronto.ca/edith_szanto/
- RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Contemporary Twelver Shi'ism
My_Publications
- My Publications
“Inter-Religious Dialogue in Syria: Politics, Ethicsand Miscommunication.” Political Theology 9.1 (2008): 93-113.
“Pedagogies of Piety: Shi‘i Children’s Books, Ethics and the Emergence of the Pious Subject.” Symposia: The Graduate Student Journal of the Centre for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto 1.1 (2009): 62-78.
Other info
- Supervisors
- Amira Mittermaier, Walid Saleh, Michael Lambek
My publications
No items found
Research
- Member for
- 3 years 7 weeks
Edith Szanto is currently a PhD candidate in Religious Studies at the University of Toronto. She graduated Summa cum Laude from Arizona State University in 2002, and received her MA in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Texas at Austin in 2004. After studying in Damascus as a Fulbrighter, she came to Toronto in 2006. Currently, she is writing her dissertation on Twelver Shi'i women's mourning rituals in and around the Syrian shrine of Sayyida Zaynab.