talk by
Lara Deeb
Monday, March 19, 2007, 6:30–8:30 p.m.
Room 9204/5; 9th Floor
The Graduate Center, CUNY
(365 Fifth Avenue, between 34th-35th St.)
Books will be available for purchase
Reception to Follow
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Books will be available for purchase
Reception to Follow
Prof. Deeb will explain the history of Hizbullah from its origins
as a militia resisting the Israeli invasion and occupation of
Lebanon to its development into a legitimate political party that
participates in the Lebanese state. She will also discuss the social
base of Hizbullah's constituencies and some of the reasons for its
growing popularity in Lebanon and the region. This summer's war as
well as ongoing political developments in Lebanon will be
addressed.
Lara Deeb is a cultural anthropologist and Assistant Professor
in Women’s Studies at the University of California at Irvine. She
is also an Academy Scholar at Harvard University’s Academy for
International and Area Studies (2003-04, 2006-07). She earned her
Ph.D. from Emory University, receiving the Malcolm H. Kerr
Oustanding Dissertation Award for her work on religiosity among
Shi’i women in the southern suburbs of Beirut. Enchanted
Modern:Gender and Public Piety in Shi‘i Lebanon was published by
Princeton University Press in 2006. She is also the author of a
number of articles on the transformation of Shi‘i religious ritual,
Islamic women’s participation in the public sphere, and Hizbullah
in Lebanon. Her current projects include an analysis of the
intersection of public religiosities and understandings of
temporality, a new project on “interfaith intimacies” in
relation to transnational discourses about sexuality and religion,
and an ongoing collaborative field research project on the Islamic
cultural sphere in Lebanon.
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