Kameel Ahmady

This website brings together field research by Kameel Ahmady and his collaborators in social anthropology and ethnography. Their work explores everyday life, childhood, gender, identity and harmful traditional practices, with a focus on lived experience, inequality and relations of power.

The research examines subjects often obscured by taboos and social, religious or political pressures. Books, articles, reports and documentaries present the findings of this collaborative work, with many available to read or watch on this website.

Explore research on child labour, child marriage, female genital mutilation/cutting, male circumcision, temporary marriage, cohabitation or ‘white marriage’, child sexual abuse, violence against men, sexual and gender minorities, and identity and ethnicity. Each study should be read in the context of its methods, dates and geographical scope; its findings should not automatically be taken to represent an entire population.