<p><strong>Kameel Ahmady</strong>, a British Iranian, originally hails from Iranian Kurdistan; he is a cultural anthropologist, researcher and writer with a background in printing, publishing and social empowerment initiatives. He has worked extensively on issues relating to local cultures, minority rights and Middle East affairs. Widely travelled, he takes special interest in the everyday human experience which persists in the face of conflict and poverty in areas such as Africa, Eastern Europe, Bosnia, Afghanistan and Iraq both before and after the wars and Iran. He studies gender, children and social change in the Middle East, has worked as an independent consultant in Europe, as a Middle Eastern media correspondent, and as a consultant on cultural and political contexts for international groups.<br />His more recent projects include a comprehensive study on Early and Child Marriage in Iran, the tudy launched in Tehran&rsquo;s national library. At the University of Oxford, Lady Margaret Hall, he also presented his book (in English and Farsi), In the Name of Tradition. Female Genital Mutilation in Iran. (UnCUT/VOICES 2016). Ten years in the making, the book is complemented by footage -- <a href="https://www.aparat.com/v/6OKyL">https://www.aparat.com/v/6OKyL</a> -- on FGM in four provinces of Iran (west Azerbaijan, Kurdistan, Kermanshah and Hormozgan), the first film on FGM in Iran.</p>
<p>Ahmady is also the author of Another look at east and southeast Turkey (Istanbul 2009), and published ethnographic research on the changing Yezidi identity in the last century (2007, 2009). He holds a post-graduate degree in anthropology and visual ethnography from the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, where his research dealt with media as a source of identity discourse amongst youth. A student of Middle Eastern politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), he has published widely on themes of gender, Diaspora, multiculturalism and modernity in the Middle East and other regions. He is working in community development programs and his empowerment research focuses on gender and social issues. In his work, he tries to give voice &ndash; reflecting both art and fact - to the people and places he encounters, often invisible to the majority.</p>
<p><strong>Publications</strong></p>
<p>Kameel Ahmady. In the Name of Tradition. Female Genital Mutilation in Iran. <a href="https://uncutvoices.wordpress.com/">UnCUT/VOICES Press</a> 2016 &amp; <a href="http://kameelahmady.com/fgm-in-iran/">http://kameelahmady.com/fgm-in-iran</a></p>
<p>Female genital mutilation practiced in Iran, study.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/04/female-genital-mutilation-iran-fgm">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/04/female-genital-mutilation-iran-fgm</a></p>
<p>Another look at east and southeast of Turkey, Gun Matbaasi 2009, Istanbul <a href="http://gezirehberi.gabb.gov.tr/">http://gezirehberi.gabb.gov.tr</a> &amp; <a href="https://www.slideshare.net/YekbunGurgoz/another-look-at-southeastpdf">https://www.slideshare.net/YekbunGurgoz/another-look-at-southeastpdf</a></p>