{"id":4754,"date":"2020-04-24T17:14:25","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T17:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/?p=4754"},"modified":"2020-04-24T17:22:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T17:22:41","slug":"4754","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2020\/04\/24\/4754\/","title":{"rendered":"Postgraduate student’s viral video on the role of Anthropology during a pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Farah Hallaba joined the School of Anthropology and Conservation last year to embark upon an MA in Social Anthropology and Visual Ethnography<\/a>. She made an\u00a0informal, short video in Arabic explaining what Anthropology was<\/a> to her friends in Egypt, her home country. Within 24 hours of being posted on Facebook, the video received hundreds of shares and 2.8k views on YouTube.<\/p>\n

Surprised by the success, Farah has decided to keep the momentum going and release a new episode of \u2018Anthropology in Arabic\u2019 each week: after uploading the second episode<\/a>, she was interviewed by an Egyptian newspaper<\/a> and, earlier this year, was featured in an issue of the online magazine Cairo Scene<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For her eighth episode, Farah explores how anthropology can help us understand the global crisis caused by the COVID-19 outbreak and how it can inform how societies will adapt to a post-Coronavirus world.<\/p>\n

Introducing the video, Farah says, “There is an embedded role of culture in the emergence, spread and containment of a virus during epidemics or pandemics. And this is why anthropologists have a very important role during such outbreaks. This episode briefly sheds light on how cultures affect pandemics, how cultures could change after it, and the role of anthropology in such emergencies.”<\/p>\n

(Please note, for English subtitles, please click the subtitles\/closed caption option at the bottom right of the video.)<\/em><\/p>\n