My research examines the ethics and politics of relatedness amongst Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. Drawing on ethnographic inquiries conducted while living in the refugee camps of Tyre (South Lebanon), it analyzes how Palestinian women and men constitute themselves as self-governed subjects while carrying on an ethics of kinship in conditions of disenfranchisement and chronic uncertainty associated with long-term, open-ended refugee status.
Kinship; sexuality; intimacy; violence; subjectivity; regimes of truth and skepticism; technologies of the self and governmentality; Islam; Palestinians, Lebanon; refugees.
Spring 2009 ‘Martyrdom and the Enfleshment of the Law in the Abrahamic Religions’, Program for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality, Johns Hopkins University (360.235).
Spring 2008 ‘Politics and Poetics of Sex: Enchantments and Corruptions in the Arab Middle East,’ Program for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality, Johns Hopkins University (360.214).
‘La corniche des célibataires. L'intimité à l'épreuve du transnationalisme chez les jeunes Palestiniens de Jal al-Baher, Liban-Sud.’ In Les Métamorphoses du Mariage au Moyen-Orient, ed. Barbara Drieskens, 33-46. Beirut: Les Cahiers de l'IFPO, 2008. (English version: ‘Bachelors’ corniche. Transnationality and the Unmaking of Intimacy amongst Palestinian Youths in Jal al-Baher, South Lebanon’, in a volume directed by Muhammed Ali Khalidi and published by the Institute of Palestine Studies, Beirut-Washington D.C., in press.)
‘Yet Another Lesson in Pessoptimism. An Anthropological Engagement of the Passage of Time, Hope and Despair among Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon’ Asylon(s), 5, Sept. 2008. http://terra.rezo.net/article805.html.
‘Religion et Politique en Palestine’ (Review of Aubin-Boltanski, Emma. Pèlerinages et Nationalisme en Palestine : Prophètes, Héros, et Ancêtres). La Vie des Idées, 30/10/2008. http://laviedesidees.fr/Religion-et-politique-en-Palestine.html.
‘Les Palestiniens Réfugiés au Liban’ (Review of Sfeir, Jihane. L'Exil Palestinien au Liban. Le Temps des Origines (1947-1952).) La Vie des Idées, 01/10/2008. http://laviedesidees.fr/Les-refugies-palestiniens-au-Liban.html.
Review of Ho, Engseng. The Graves of Tarim : Genealogy and Mobility across the Indian Ocean. Pount, 3, Spring 2009. |
