Authors

Hiba Bou Akar and Nada Moumtaz

 

Hiba Bou Akar is an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Middle Eastern Studies at Hampshire College. She has published articles on geographies of planning, war, violence, security, and religious political organizations. She was the co-editor of Narrating Beirut from its Borderlines (Heinrich Boll Foundation, 2011) and a special issue on “Security and the City” in City & Society (2012). She is currently working on a book project entitled Planning Beirut: For the War Yet to Come, focusing on the spatial practices of religious-political organizations in shaping post civil war frontier geographies. Hiba is a co-editor of Jadaliyya`s Cities Page. Click here to visit her Hampshire College profile

Nada Moumtaz is an Assistant Professor in Comparative Studies and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the Ohio State University. She is working on a book on the politics, ethics, and economics of charitable giving in Beirut, Lebanon.

ARTICLES BY Hiba Bou Akar and Nada Moumtaz