Tác giả: Lara Deeb

U.S. involvement in the Middle East has brought the region into the media spotlight and made it a hot topic in American college classrooms. At the same time, anthropology—a discipline committed to on …

Based on two years of ethnographic research in the southern suburbs of Beirut, An Enchanted Modern demonstrates that Islam and modernity are not merely compatible, but actually go hand-in-hand. This …

How the rise of leisure is changing contemporary Lebanon South Beirut has recently become a vibrant leisure destination with a plethora of cafés and restaurants that cater to the young, fashionable, …

This volume combines ethnographic accounts of fieldwork with overviews of recent anthropological literature about the region on topics such as Islam, gender, youth, and new media. It addresses contem …

Practicing Sectarianism explores the imaginative and contradictory ways that people live sectarianism. The book’s essays use the concept as an animating principle within a variety of sites across Leb …

Lebanon may be the most complicated place in the world to be a ‘mixed’ couple. It has no civil marriage law, fifteen personal status laws, and a political system built on sectarianism. Still, Lebanon …