Hsain Ilahiane is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kentucky. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. His research interests are community-based resource management, information and communications technologies, and economic development in Africa and the Middle East. Over the last decade, he has been investigating the social and economic impacts of mobile phones in Africa. Currently, his research centers on financial diaries of urban casual laborers in Morocco. In addition to several peer-reviewed journal articles, he is the author of Ethnicities, Community Making, and Agrarian Change: The Political Ecology of a Moroccan Oasis (2004) and the Historical Dictionary of the Berbers.