Dr. Donald Cole is a noted anthropologist at the American University in Cairo. He joined the university in 1971. He is a member of the American Anthropological Association. Cole has studied Arab nomadic cultures, such as the Al Murrah, in his The Social and Economic Structure of the Al Murrah: A Saudi Arabian Bedouin Tribe, his PhD dissertation at the University of California, Berkeley. Cole, an American expatriate, currently resides in Cairo.