Lara Deeb

Lara Deeb is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Scripps College. She is the author of An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi‘i Lebanon (Princeton University Press 2006) and articles on Muslim women’s participation in the public sphere, the transformation of religious ritual, and Hizbullah in Lebanon. She is currently co-writing a book with Mona Harb, tentatively titled “Leisurely Islam: Negotiating Spatiality and Morality in Shi’ite South Beirut.” She is a member of the editorial committee for Middle East Report and the editorial board for the International Journal of Middle East Studies, and Co-Editor for Book Reviews for American Ethnologist.