My research for this book started as a PhD thesis, which I defended at Sciences Po Paris in 2015. I consider it important to publish a book about Tripoli, a city long neglected in the literature—the most recent
Tine Gade
Tine Gade (PhD, Sciences Po Paris, 2015) is Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) and a guest researcher at Aarhus University. Her work focuses on contentious politics and state-society relationships in the Middle East, especially Lebanon, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. She is the author of Sunni City: Tripoli from Islamist Utopia to the Lebanese Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and has published in Social Movement Studies, Third World Thematics (A TWQ Journal), Contemporary Arab Affairs, Maghreb Machreq, and in edited volumes. Gade is currently the Principal Investigator of the STATEISLAM (Responses to State Regulations of Islam in Times of Daesh) research project funded by the Research Council of Norway.
