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is an anthropologist and Assistant Professor at the United Arab Emirates University in Al-Ain. Tabishat was educated at the Universities of Yarmouk and Irbid (both in Jordan). From 1993 to 1995 he studied with Talal Asad at the New School for Social Research in New York and received his PhD in Social Anthropology with a dissertation entitled Persons, Bodies and Organs: Living and Debating the Morality of Medical Care in Modern Cairo from the University of Cambridge, England in 2002. He taught Anthropology at Dickinson College, Arabic at the Universities of Fordham, New York and Columbia. His research interest is focused on medical Anthropology. Among his publications are (2000) Al-daght: Pressures of Modern Life in Cairo, in: Situating Globalization: Views from Egypt. Cynthia Nelson and Shahnaz Rouse (eds.); (1999) On Medical Anthropology, Research and Research Priorities: Notes from Cairo, in: Social Science in Egypt: Emerging Voices. Seteney Shami and Linda Herrera (eds.). His monograph After the Body: Debating the Legal and Moral Aspects of Organ Transplantation in Egypt 1995–1997 is forthcoming.