ABOUT ME

Interests: Charles Mingus, whisky, Walker Evans, the English sea, anchovies, Celan, Napoli, minatures, marionettes, photographs, maps, lemons, TCP, cigarettes, Skip James, diagrams, Brecht, sea urchins, Ornette Coleman, Burgundy, Hermann Broch, Robert Kramer, liver, masks.

Joshua Craze is a graduate student at the University of Amsterdam, and has just finished an attachment at the British Institute in Eastern Africa.

He read anthropology at the University of Oxford, and was a researcher at L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes Sciences Sociales.

Mr Craze previously lived in Egypt, Sierra Leone, France, Kenya, and Tanzania. He is a contributing writer at saudidebate.com and a correspondent with africanews.com.

He is the editor of a book of essays on Saudi Arabian politics, which is forthcoming with Hurst & Co in 2008.

He has just signed the contract for his own first book, which is going to be on the idea of the border, and will be published in 2010 by Hurst.

He desperately needs a better title...

Interests

• writing
• books
• politics
• anthropology
• cartography