Dr Farès Moussa
An anthropologist, archaeologist and cultural heritage consultant with 20 years’ experience leading cultural tours.
Biography
Dr Farès K Moussa is an anthropologist, archaeologist and cultural heritage consultant, with particular expertise in North African, Saharan and central Mediterranean Phoenicio-Punic, Amazigh (‘Berber’), Nuragic (Bronze-Age Sardinia) and Roman archaeology, as well as contemporary ‘folk’ Islamic practices.
His portfolio career has included numerous research surveys, excavations and consultancy projects relating to the impact of development on both tangible and intangible heritage in the SWANA (Southwest Asia & North Africa) region, Europe (Albania, Georgia, Italy and the UK), as well as Nigeria and Uzbekistan. Farès has also held directorships with several arts and cultural organisations in the UK, including the international festival Shubbak: A Window on Contemporary Arab Cultures.
Alongside his consultancy work and lecturing – including more than 20 years leading and lecturing on cultural tours – he is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Southampton, a member of the Curation, Engagement and Research (CER) Committee of the Sussex Archaeological Trust, which manages several heritage properties in the UK, and serves on the editorial board of the journal The Historic Environment: Policy and Practice.
Farès studied Anthropology and Psychology at the University of East London, Archaeology at University College London and the University of Edinburgh, was a Marie Curie Fellow in the History of Thought at the École normale supérieure in Paris, and gained his PhD in Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Southampton. He has published numerous academic papers, with others currently in preparation, and is presently writing his first crossover academic and popular-science book, proposing a new ‘philosophical anthropological’ perspective on the origins and nature of the human cultural condition.
Farès is particularly interested in perspectives on culture in relation to biology, belief, the concept of ‘mind’, and the philosophical foundations of the humanities and social sciences.