Daniel Martin Varisco

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Daniel Martin Varisco (born 1951 in Strongsville, Ohio), is an American anthropologist and historian.

Varisco has published on the history of Orientalism, the anthropology of Islam, the history of Islamic agronomy and astronomy, agriculture and water rights in Yemen, and international development and the anthropology of cyberspace. He is the founding editor of CyberOrient, and web master of the blog Tabsir. He was Professor of Anthropology at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. He is currently Research Professor at Qatar University.