Lara Deeb
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 100773 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Lara Deeb |
| NOMBRES | Lara |
| APELLIDO | Deeb |
| FIRMA | DEEB L |
| AFILIACIONES | Scripps College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8512-0153 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 258 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2001 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
If Only People Knew
Love Across Difference
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 has the most interreligious marriages per capita in the Middle East. What constitutes a mixed marriage is in flux as social norms shift, and reactions to mixed marriage reveal underlying social categories of discrimination. Through stories of Lebanes…
Resistance to Repression and Back Again
In 2023–2024, US academia witnessed the largest ever protests condemning Israeli state violence against Palestinians and the most vociferous repression of these protests and other criticisms of that violence. This article situates this moment within the longer history of support for Palestinian liberation in US colleges and universities, as well as the decades-long rise of organizations to combat this support and critical analysis of the Israeli …
Anthropology's good beyond the discipline
In July 2023, the American Anthropological Association's (AAA) members voted to boycott Israeli academic institutions until they end their complicity in violating Palestinian rights as stipulated in international law. The AAA's adoption of this resolution shows the potential good of anthropology, both within and beyond the academy. Anthropology's disciplinary scholarly processes, methods, and theoretical frameworks paved the way for this resoluti…
Practicing Sectarianism
Practicing Sectarianism brings anthropologists and historians together to investigate the imaginative and contradictory ways people live and practice sectarianism in their everyday lives, with the ultimate goal of destabilizing sect as a category and sectarianism as a concept
Pedagogies of Resistance
The following interview with a collective of scholars describes the organization, conceptualization, and thematic framework of the online syllabus #IslamophobiaisRacism. The goals of the syllabus include theorizing anti-Muslim racism and developing strategies to combat white supremacy
Beyond sectarianism
Based on interviews with Lebanese in over 150 mixed-religion marriages and their extended family members, I argue that sect may conceal or stand in for other forms of difference, including ideas about status and hierarchy related to class and regional origin in Lebanon. Because it is the most readily available discourse for understanding social difference, parents often use sectarian rhetoric to describe their concerns about a variety of problems…
Anthropology's Politics
Middle East Politics in US Academia
In their recent book, Anthropology's Politics: Disciplining the Middle East (Stanford University Press, 2016), Lara Deeb and Jessica Winegar provide the first academic study of how political and economic pressures shape the way scholars based in the United States research and teach about the Middle East. Lila Abu-Lughod, a member of the journal's editorial board, recently talked with the authors about the dynamics of the field. The book's final c…
Thinking piety and the everyday together
Meditation on Fadil, Nadia and Mayanthi Fernando. 2015. "Rediscovering the 'everyday' Muslim: Notes on an anthropological divide." Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 5(2): 59-88
Leisurely Islam
Leisurely Islam
South Beirut has recently become a vibrant leisure destination with a plethora of cafés and restaurants that cater to the young, fashionable, and pious. What effects have these establishments had on the moral norms, spatial practices, and urban experiences of this Lebanese community? From the diverse voices of young Shi'i Muslims searching for places to hang out, to the Hezbollah officials who want this media-savvy generation to be more political…
Contesting urban modernity
The urban scholarship on Beirut often focuses either on the reconstruction of its downtown area controlled by the private real estate company Solidere, or on its poor southern suburbs (Dahiya) dominated by the Shi‵i Islamic political party, Hizbullah. Downtown is strongly associated with an urban ‘modern’ model that generates pride for Lebanese, while Dahiya is defamed as a less modern urban space, unworthy of consideration as part of Beirut’s ur…
Mission Statement Responses
I see this new phase in the history of a well-established scholarly journal as offering a major opportunity. That opportunity needs to be placed in a context. There are three key elements to this context, from the point of view of the American research university and the geographies of the rest of the world. First, globalization has encouraged greater traffic among disciplines, regions, and institutions based primarily on growing access to inform…
Choosing Both Faith and Fun
Challenging both polarized depictions of Muslim youth and scholarship that over-privileges piety as a focal point in Muslims' lives, this article highlights the complexity of the moral worlds of Shi'i youth in Lebanon. Through ethnography of youth choices when going out, we argue that youth practices and discourses of morality are multiple and flexible in their deployments, perhaps especially when it comes to ideas about leisure. This interpretiv…
Anthropologies of Arab-Majority Societies
This article reviews recent anthropological scholarship of Arab-majority societies in relation to geopolitical and theoretical shifts since the end of the Cold War, as well as conjunctures of research location, topic, and theory. Key contributions of the subfield to the larger discipline include interventions into feminist theorizing about agency; theories of modernity; analyses of cultural production/consumption that destabilize the culture conc…
Politics, Culture, Religion
What might the wreckage of a former prison in south Lebanon that was destroyed during Israeli bombardment in 2006 have in common with a series of “family-oriented” amusement parks built by a corporate investment group? How might these sites be related to an ecotourism facility high in the mountains above Saida and the 70-some cafés and restaurants that have opened in the southern suburbs of Beirut since 2000? Aside from being fieldsites in our on…
Emulating and/or embodying the ideal
In this article, I discuss two of the major temporal frameworks that pious Shi'i Muslims in Lebanon draw on, as seen through the example of the Battle of Karbala, its annual commemoration during Ashura, and the work that the religious figures Imam Husayn and Sayyida Zaynab do in linking history to the contemporary moment. I suggest that, to fully understand how these two temporalities work, it is necessary to attend to the ways in which they are …
Piety politics and the role of a transnational feminist analysis
This paper draws on the ethnographic case of pious Shi'i Muslim gender activists in Lebanon in order to argue for the necessity of considering transnational discourses on gender and Islam in our analyses of piety. Based upon field research conducted inal-Dahiya -the southern suburb of Beirut - since 1998, the paper examines pious Shi'i women's engagements with transnational discourses about gender roles and stereotypes about Muslim women. The pap…
Exhibiting the 'Just-Lived Past
On 20 July 2006, eight days into an Israeli air assault on Lebanon, Israeli shells hit the Khiam detention center, the notorious site where Lebanese resistance fighters and civilians had been imprisoned and tortured during the twenty-two-year (1978-2000) Israeli occupation of south Lebanon. A news article describing the destruction of the center was subtitled, 'After being remade in recent years into a monument to political atrocity, the jail at …
Middle East Section
An Enchanted Modern
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 eloquent ethnographic portrayal of an Islamic community articulates how an alternative modernity, and specifically an enchanted modernity, may be constructed by Shi'I Muslims who consider themselves simultaneously deeply modern, cosmopolitan, and piou…
Contesting Rituals
"Hizbullah Strongholds" and Civilian Life
Living Ashura in Lebanon
Research Article| May 01 2005 Living Ashura in Lebanon: Mourning Transformed to Sacrifice Lara Deeb Lara Deeb Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (1): 122-137. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-25-1-122 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Lara Deeb; Living Ashura in Lebanon: Mourning Transformed to Sacrifice. Comparat…
Anthropologies of Arab-Majority Societies
This article reviews recent anthropological scholarship of Arab-majority societies in relation to geopolitical and theoretical shifts since the end of the Cold War, as well as conjunctures of research location, topic, and theory. Key contributions of the subfield to the larger discipline include interventions into feminist theorizing about agency; theories of modernity; analyses of cultural production/consumption that destabilize the culture conc…
Thinking piety and the everyday together
Meditation on Fadil, Nadia and Mayanthi Fernando. 2015. "Rediscovering the 'everyday' Muslim: Notes on an anthropological divide." Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 5(2): 59-88
An Enchanted Modern
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 eloquent ethnographic portrayal of an Islamic community articulates how an alternative modernity, and specifically an enchanted modernity, may be constructed by Shi'I Muslims who consider themselves simultaneously deeply modern, cosmopolitan, and piou…
Emulating and/or embodying the ideal
In this article, I discuss two of the major temporal frameworks that pious Shi'i Muslims in Lebanon draw on, as seen through the example of the Battle of Karbala, its annual commemoration during Ashura, and the work that the religious figures Imam Husayn and Sayyida Zaynab do in linking history to the contemporary moment. I suggest that, to fully understand how these two temporalities work, it is necessary to attend to the ways in which they are …
Piety politics and the role of a transnational feminist analysis
This paper draws on the ethnographic case of pious Shi'i Muslim gender activists in Lebanon in order to argue for the necessity of considering transnational discourses on gender and Islam in our analyses of piety. Based upon field research conducted inal-Dahiya -the southern suburb of Beirut - since 1998, the paper examines pious Shi'i women's engagements with transnational discourses about gender roles and stereotypes about Muslim women. The pap…
Choosing Both Faith and Fun
Challenging both polarized depictions of Muslim youth and scholarship that over-privileges piety as a focal point in Muslims' lives, this article highlights the complexity of the moral worlds of Shi'i youth in Lebanon. Through ethnography of youth choices when going out, we argue that youth practices and discourses of morality are multiple and flexible in their deployments, perhaps especially when it comes to ideas about leisure. This interpretiv…
Living Ashura in Lebanon
Research Article| May 01 2005 Living Ashura in Lebanon: Mourning Transformed to Sacrifice Lara Deeb Lara Deeb Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (1): 122-137. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-25-1-122 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Lara Deeb; Living Ashura in Lebanon: Mourning Transformed to Sacrifice. Comparat…
Beyond sectarianism
Based on interviews with Lebanese in over 150 mixed-religion marriages and their extended family members, I argue that sect may conceal or stand in for other forms of difference, including ideas about status and hierarchy related to class and regional origin in Lebanon. Because it is the most readily available discourse for understanding social difference, parents often use sectarian rhetoric to describe their concerns about a variety of problems…
Anthropology's Politics
Resistance to Repression and Back Again
In 2023–2024, US academia witnessed the largest ever protests condemning Israeli state violence against Palestinians and the most vociferous repression of these protests and other criticisms of that violence. This article situates this moment within the longer history of support for Palestinian liberation in US colleges and universities, as well as the decades-long rise of organizations to combat this support and critical analysis of the Israeli …
Contesting urban modernity
The urban scholarship on Beirut often focuses either on the reconstruction of its downtown area controlled by the private real estate company Solidere, or on its poor southern suburbs (Dahiya) dominated by the Shi‵i Islamic political party, Hizbullah. Downtown is strongly associated with an urban ‘modern’ model that generates pride for Lebanese, while Dahiya is defamed as a less modern urban space, unworthy of consideration as part of Beirut’s ur…
Exhibiting the 'Just-Lived Past
On 20 July 2006, eight days into an Israeli air assault on Lebanon, Israeli shells hit the Khiam detention center, the notorious site where Lebanese resistance fighters and civilians had been imprisoned and tortured during the twenty-two-year (1978-2000) Israeli occupation of south Lebanon. A news article describing the destruction of the center was subtitled, 'After being remade in recent years into a monument to political atrocity, the jail at …
Pedagogies of Resistance
The following interview with a collective of scholars describes the organization, conceptualization, and thematic framework of the online syllabus #IslamophobiaisRacism. The goals of the syllabus include theorizing anti-Muslim racism and developing strategies to combat white supremacy
"Hizbullah Strongholds" and Civilian Life
The contested public lives of middle eastern women
Kapchan, Deborah. Gender on the Market: Moroccan Women and the Revoking of Tradition. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. xvii + 325 pp. including appendices, glossary, chapter references, and indexes. $42.50 cloth, $19.95 paperback. Hale, Sondra. Gender Politics in Sudan: Islamism, Socialism, and the State. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996. xv + 295 pp. including glossary, chapter references, index, and book/author information…
If Only People Knew
Anthropology's good beyond the discipline
In July 2023, the American Anthropological Association's (AAA) members voted to boycott Israeli academic institutions until they end their complicity in violating Palestinian rights as stipulated in international law. The AAA's adoption of this resolution shows the potential good of anthropology, both within and beyond the academy. Anthropology's disciplinary scholarly processes, methods, and theoretical frameworks paved the way for this resoluti…
Mission Statement Responses
I see this new phase in the history of a well-established scholarly journal as offering a major opportunity. That opportunity needs to be placed in a context. There are three key elements to this context, from the point of view of the American research university and the geographies of the rest of the world. First, globalization has encouraged greater traffic among disciplines, regions, and institutions based primarily on growing access to inform…
The contested public lives of middle eastern women
Kapchan, Deborah. Gender on the Market: Moroccan Women and the Revoking of Tradition. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. xvii + 325 pp. including appendices, glossary, chapter references, and indexes. $42.50 cloth, $19.95 paperback. Hale, Sondra. Gender Politics in Sudan: Islamism, Socialism, and the State. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996. xv + 295 pp. including glossary, chapter references, index, and book/author information…
Living Ashura in Lebanon
Research Article| May 01 2005 Living Ashura in Lebanon: Mourning Transformed to Sacrifice Lara Deeb Lara Deeb Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (1): 122-137. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-25-1-122 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Lara Deeb; Living Ashura in Lebanon: Mourning Transformed to Sacrifice. Comparat…
Middle East Section
An Enchanted Modern
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 eloquent ethnographic portrayal of an Islamic community articulates how an alternative modernity, and specifically an enchanted modernity, may be constructed by Shi'I Muslims who consider themselves simultaneously deeply modern, cosmopolitan, and piou…
Contesting Rituals
"Hizbullah Strongholds" and Civilian Life
Exhibiting the 'Just-Lived Past
On 20 July 2006, eight days into an Israeli air assault on Lebanon, Israeli shells hit the Khiam detention center, the notorious site where Lebanese resistance fighters and civilians had been imprisoned and tortured during the twenty-two-year (1978-2000) Israeli occupation of south Lebanon. A news article describing the destruction of the center was subtitled, 'After being remade in recent years into a monument to political atrocity, the jail at …
Politics, Culture, Religion
What might the wreckage of a former prison in south Lebanon that was destroyed during Israeli bombardment in 2006 have in common with a series of “family-oriented” amusement parks built by a corporate investment group? How might these sites be related to an ecotourism facility high in the mountains above Saida and the 70-some cafés and restaurants that have opened in the southern suburbs of Beirut since 2000? Aside from being fieldsites in our on…
Emulating and/or embodying the ideal
In this article, I discuss two of the major temporal frameworks that pious Shi'i Muslims in Lebanon draw on, as seen through the example of the Battle of Karbala, its annual commemoration during Ashura, and the work that the religious figures Imam Husayn and Sayyida Zaynab do in linking history to the contemporary moment. I suggest that, to fully understand how these two temporalities work, it is necessary to attend to the ways in which they are …
Piety politics and the role of a transnational feminist analysis
This paper draws on the ethnographic case of pious Shi'i Muslim gender activists in Lebanon in order to argue for the necessity of considering transnational discourses on gender and Islam in our analyses of piety. Based upon field research conducted inal-Dahiya -the southern suburb of Beirut - since 1998, the paper examines pious Shi'i women's engagements with transnational discourses about gender roles and stereotypes about Muslim women. The pap…
Anthropologies of Arab-Majority Societies
This article reviews recent anthropological scholarship of Arab-majority societies in relation to geopolitical and theoretical shifts since the end of the Cold War, as well as conjunctures of research location, topic, and theory. Key contributions of the subfield to the larger discipline include interventions into feminist theorizing about agency; theories of modernity; analyses of cultural production/consumption that destabilize the culture conc…
Leisurely Islam
Leisurely Islam
South Beirut has recently become a vibrant leisure destination with a plethora of cafés and restaurants that cater to the young, fashionable, and pious. What effects have these establishments had on the moral norms, spatial practices, and urban experiences of this Lebanese community? From the diverse voices of young Shi'i Muslims searching for places to hang out, to the Hezbollah officials who want this media-savvy generation to be more political…
Contesting urban modernity
The urban scholarship on Beirut often focuses either on the reconstruction of its downtown area controlled by the private real estate company Solidere, or on its poor southern suburbs (Dahiya) dominated by the Shi‵i Islamic political party, Hizbullah. Downtown is strongly associated with an urban ‘modern’ model that generates pride for Lebanese, while Dahiya is defamed as a less modern urban space, unworthy of consideration as part of Beirut’s ur…
Mission Statement Responses
I see this new phase in the history of a well-established scholarly journal as offering a major opportunity. That opportunity needs to be placed in a context. There are three key elements to this context, from the point of view of the American research university and the geographies of the rest of the world. First, globalization has encouraged greater traffic among disciplines, regions, and institutions based primarily on growing access to inform…
Choosing Both Faith and Fun
Challenging both polarized depictions of Muslim youth and scholarship that over-privileges piety as a focal point in Muslims' lives, this article highlights the complexity of the moral worlds of Shi'i youth in Lebanon. Through ethnography of youth choices when going out, we argue that youth practices and discourses of morality are multiple and flexible in their deployments, perhaps especially when it comes to ideas about leisure. This interpretiv…
Thinking piety and the everyday together
Meditation on Fadil, Nadia and Mayanthi Fernando. 2015. "Rediscovering the 'everyday' Muslim: Notes on an anthropological divide." Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 5(2): 59-88
Middle East Politics in US Academia
In their recent book, Anthropology's Politics: Disciplining the Middle East (Stanford University Press, 2016), Lara Deeb and Jessica Winegar provide the first academic study of how political and economic pressures shape the way scholars based in the United States research and teach about the Middle East. Lila Abu-Lughod, a member of the journal's editorial board, recently talked with the authors about the dynamics of the field. The book's final c…
Pedagogies of Resistance
The following interview with a collective of scholars describes the organization, conceptualization, and thematic framework of the online syllabus #IslamophobiaisRacism. The goals of the syllabus include theorizing anti-Muslim racism and developing strategies to combat white supremacy
Beyond sectarianism
Based on interviews with Lebanese in over 150 mixed-religion marriages and their extended family members, I argue that sect may conceal or stand in for other forms of difference, including ideas about status and hierarchy related to class and regional origin in Lebanon. Because it is the most readily available discourse for understanding social difference, parents often use sectarian rhetoric to describe their concerns about a variety of problems…
Anthropology's Politics
Practicing Sectarianism
Practicing Sectarianism brings anthropologists and historians together to investigate the imaginative and contradictory ways people live and practice sectarianism in their everyday lives, with the ultimate goal of destabilizing sect as a category and sectarianism as a concept
Love Across Difference
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 has the most interreligious marriages per capita in the Middle East. What constitutes a mixed marriage is in flux as social norms shift, and reactions to mixed marriage reveal underlying social categories of discrimination. Through stories of Lebanes…
Resistance to Repression and Back Again
In 2023–2024, US academia witnessed the largest ever protests condemning Israeli state violence against Palestinians and the most vociferous repression of these protests and other criticisms of that violence. This article situates this moment within the longer history of support for Palestinian liberation in US colleges and universities, as well as the decades-long rise of organizations to combat this support and critical analysis of the Israeli …
Anthropology's good beyond the discipline
In July 2023, the American Anthropological Association's (AAA) members voted to boycott Israeli academic institutions until they end their complicity in violating Palestinian rights as stipulated in international law. The AAA's adoption of this resolution shows the potential good of anthropology, both within and beyond the academy. Anthropology's disciplinary scholarly processes, methods, and theoretical frameworks paved the way for this resoluti…
Sociology (20 obras) · Political science (19 obras) · Law (18 obras) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (17 obras) · Politics (15 obras) · Middle East Politics and Society (13 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Gender Studies (10 obras) · History (10 obras) · Islamic Studies and History (10 obras)