I. Butter

PhD

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Inge Butter is a cultural anthropologist specialized in Arabic language and culture. Her MA thesis dealt with the informal garbage collectors of Cairo, the zabbaleen. As of March 2011 she is a Ph.D. student based at the African Studies Centre. The preliminary title of her research project is, ‘Arabization and Islamization at the margins: The role of Arab and Islamic ICTS in the formation of cultural and religious communal identities amongst marginal Muslims in post-conflict N’Djamena, Chad’. The MaGW-funded project will be supervised by Prof. Mirjam de Bruijn (ASC) and Prof. Maarten Mous (Univ. Leiden).