ADRIAN McINTYRE is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at U.C. Berkeley. He returned to California in 2005 after spending 14 months in Darfur, Sudan as a media coordinator and policy adviser for Oxfam. Fluent in Arabic, he has over 12 years of experience in the Middle East, where he has worked as an aid worker, archaeologist, educator, journalist, and social science researcher in Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Sudan, and Syria. He earned a Master’s degree in Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and a BA in Anthropology and Sociology from La Sierra University in 1996. He has co-edited September 11: Contexts and Consequences (2001) and wrote the JNEPI Iraq Country Handbook (2003), an overview of the political and legal context for humanitarian agencies in Iraq. A former Fulbright scholar and National Science Foundation fellow, his current research interests include humanitarianism, civilian-military relations, the political economy of conflict, private military/security companies, and the “Global War on Terror.”

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