Hsain Ilahiane is a professor at the School of Middle Eastern North African Studies and the W.A. Franke Honors College. Prior to joining the University of Arizona, he served as Professor and Head of the Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures at Mississippi State University 2018-2023) as Associate Professor of Applied Anthropology at the University of Kentucky 2009-2018) as Senior Social Scientist at Intel Corporation Research Labs in Oregon 2006-2007) and as Assistant and Associate Professor of Anthropology at Iowa State University 1999-2009) His expertise is in applied anthropology and his research interests are economic development; information and communication technologies for development; poverty; globalization; informal urban economies; arid lands ecology; oasis agriculture and irrigation systems; economic anthropology; political ecology; Islam and the Middle East; and Africa. He has conducted ethnographic research in Morocco, the United States of America, Uganda, Kenya, and South Africa. He is the author of Ethnicities, Community Making, and Agrarian Change: The Political Ecology of a Moroccan Oasis 2004) Historical Dictionary of the Berbers Imazighen) 2017) and The Mobile Phone Revolution in Morocco: Cultural and Economic Transformations 2022)