Authors

Lara Deeb and Mona Harb

 

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 (2006) and co­author with Mona Harb of Leisurely Islam: Negotiating Geography and Morality in Shi‘ite South Beirut (2013), as well as articles on Muslim women’s participation in the public sphere, morality and leisure, transnational feminism, and Hizbullah in Lebanon. Her current book project is “Anthropology’s Politics: Discipline and Region through the Lens of the Middle East,” co­authored with Jessica Winegar. She is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Middle East Studies and the president of the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association.

Mona Harb is Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Politics at the American University of Beirut. She is the co-author of Leisurely Islam: Negotiating Geography and Morality in Shi’ite South Beirut (with Lara Deeb, Princeton University Press, 2013), and author of Le Hezbollah à Beyrouth (1985-2005): de la banlieue à la ville (Karthala-IFPO, 2010). She is currently investigating decentralization, local governments and urban development policies in the Arab world, as well as public space practices and urban politics in Beirut. Mona is a co-editor of Jadaliyya`s Cities Page.

ARTICLES BY Lara Deeb and Mona Harb