Charles Hirschkind is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of California in Berkeley. His book, The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics (Columbia 2006), was awarded the 2007-2008 Sharon Stevens First Book Prize by the American Ethnological Society. He is also the co-editor (with David Scott) of Powers of the Secular Modern: Talal Asad and his Interlocutors (Stanford 2005). Read Charles Hirschkind's contribution to Egyptian elections.