Donald Cole (anthropologist)
Introduction Donald Powell Cole (also known as AbdAllah-Talib Donald Cole)'''Donald Powell Cole''' (March 21, 1941 in Bryan, Texas) is a noted anthropologist at the American University in Cairo. He joined the university in 1971.He is a member of the American Anthropological Association. Cole has studied Arab nomadic cultures, such as the Al Murrah, in his ''The Social and Economic Structure of the Āl Murrah: A Saudi Arabian Bedouin Tribe'', his PhD dissertation at the University of California, Berkeley.Cole, an American expat, currently resides in Cairo.
Academic positions *The American University in Cairo	Assistant Professor, 1971–73; 1974–75	Associate Professor, 1975–86	Professor, 1986 to 2007	Emeritus Professor, 2007 onward*University of California, Berkeley	Acting Assistant Professor, Spring Quarter 1971	Visiting Assistant Professor, 1973–74*The University of Chicago	Visiting Associate Professor, Winter and Spring Quarters 1976*University of Texas, Austin	Visiting Associate Professor, Spring Semester 1983, plus several summer sessions	Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle East Studies, Spring Semester 1987*Georgetown University	Visiting Researcher, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Spring Semester 1995
Books Cole's most recent book: "Road to Islam: From Texas to Saudi Arabia and Egypt. "*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  (hardcover),  (paperback)
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(9):94–103. *1973: "The Enmeshment of Nomads in Saudi Arabian Society: The Case of the Al Murrah". In Cynthia Nelson (ed. ), ''The Desert and the Sown: Nomads in the Wider Society'', 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 Timothy Niblock (ed. ), ''Social and Economic Development in the Arab Gulf'', 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 Akbar S. Ahmed and David M. Hart (eds), ''Islam in Tribal Societies: From the Atlas to the Indus'', 169–186.London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. *1984: "Modern Egypt". ''Discovery'' 8(3):8-12. (Robert A. Fernea, co-author). *1985: "The Bedouin in a Changing World". ''Cairo Today'' 6(9):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. (Soraya Altorki, co-author). *1992: "Was Arabia Tribal? A Reinterpretation of the Pre-Oil Society.” Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies XV(4):71-87. *1993: "Commerce et  production dans le nord de l’Aarabie centrale: changement et development a 'Unayzah". In Riccardo Bocco, Ronald Jaubert and Francoise Metral (eds), ''Steppes d’Arabies: Etats, pasteurs, agriculture et commerçants: le devinir des zones seches'',  247–265.Paris: Presses Universitaires de France; Geneva: Cahiers de L'I.U.E.D. (Soraya Altorki, co-author). *1994: "Private Sector Enterprises in Desert Development in Egypt". In Mohammed Atif Kishk (ed. ), ''Land Reclamation and Development in Egypt'', 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 Nicholas S. Hopkins and Saad Eddin Ibrahim (eds), ''Arab Society: Class, Gender, Power and Development'', 29–52.Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press. (Soraya Altorki, co-author). *1997: Unayzah, le 'Paris du Najd': le changement en Arabie saoudite". ''Monde arabe: Maghreb-Machrek'' 156:3–22. (Soraya Altorki, co-author). *1998: "Guide to the MT09 Libyan Bedouin File". HRAF Collection of Ethnography, Installment 47 (CD-ROM). 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. (Soraya Altorki, co-author). *1998: "The Northwest Coast: A Part of Rural Egypt?” In Nicholas S. Hopkins and Kirsten Westergaard (eds), ''Directions of Change in Rural Egypt'', 130–143.Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press. (Soraya Altorki, co-author). *1998: "Twenty Years of Desert Development in Egypt". Cairo Papers in Social Science 21(4):44–54. (Soraya Altorki, co-author). *2000: "Production and Trade in North Central Arabia: Change and Development in 'Unayzah". In Martha Mundy and Basim Musallam (eds), ''The Transformation of Nomadic Society in the Arab East'', 145–159.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. *2001: "Saudi Arabia". In Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember (eds), ''Countries and their Cultures'', 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:  "Where Have the Bedouin Gone?" ''Anthropological Quarterly'' 76(2):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 Dawn Chatty (ed. ), ''Nomadic Societies in the Middle East and North Africa: Entering the 21st Century'', 370–392.Leiden and Boston: Brill. *2006: "Land and Identity among Awlad 'Ali Bedouin: Egypt's Northwest Coast". In Dawn Chatty (ed. ), ''Nomadic Societies in the Middle East and North Africa: Entering the 21st Century'', 634–653.Leiden and Boston: Brill. (Soraya Altorki, co-author).
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(2):7-20. *2002	Hussein Fahim. “Hadith anthrubulujiya maa duktur Donald Cole” Anthropological discussion with Dr. Donald Cole. Journal of the Social Sciences. Kuwait: Kuwait University, Fall 2002.
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