Contributors
- Contributors
Dina Al-Kassim is Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the School of Humanities, Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Women's Studies and in the Culture and theory Ph.D. Program at the University of California at Irvine. Al-Kassim is also an Executive Committee Member of the Critical Theory Institute. Her research interests include modernism, Francophone North Africa, South Africa, and critical theory, as well as abstract psychoanalysis, postcolonial critique, literary and political appropriations of psychoanalysis, colonial law and manipulations of kinship structures, postcolonial Islam, feminist, gender and queer theory, and fin-de-siècle culture. Al-Kassim is the author of On Pain of Speech: Fantasies of the First Order and the Literary Rant (University of California Press, 2010). She received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley.
Paul Amar is Associate Professor in the Global and International Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He also holds affiliate appointments in Feminist Studies, Sociology, Middle East Studies, and Latin American & Iberian Studies. Amar's research traces the origins and intersections of new patterns of police militarization, security governance, humanitarian intervention, and state restructuring in the megacities of the global South. He specializes in international security studies, political sociology, global ethnography, and gender/ race/postcolonial theory. Amar's books include The Security Archipelago: 'Human Security' States, Sexuality Politics and the End of Neoliberalism (Duke University Press, 2011), Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture and Urban Space in the New Globalized Middle East with Diane Singerman (American University in Cairo Press, 2006), New Racial Missions of Policing: [End Page 129] International Perspectives on Evolving Law-Enforcement Politics (Routledge, 2010), and Global South to the Rescue: Emergent Humanitarian Superpowers and Transnational Rescue Industries (Routledge, 2011). He is currently working on a book project, entitled The Rise of the Commando Cop: Militarizing Global Police Cultures and Gendering the Force of Law.
Lara Deeb is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Scripps College. She is also a member of the editorial committee for Middle East Report and the editorial board for the International Journal of Middle East Studies. Deeb is the author of An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi'i Lebanon (Princeton University Press 2006), as well as of a number of articles on the transformation of Shi'i religious ritual, Islamist women's participation in the public sphere, and Hezbollah in Lebanon. She is currently working on a co-authored book project with Mona Harb, tentatively titled "Leisurely Islam: Negotiating Place and Morality in Shi'ite South Beirut," funded by the Wenner Gren Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies.
Pardis Mahdavi is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Pomona College. Her research interests include gendered labor, migration, sexuality, human rights, youth culture, transnational feminism and public health in the context of changing global and political structures. Her current work looks at gendered migration, labor, and human trafficking in the Gulf states. Mahdavi's work has been published in numerous publications, including the Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic Cultures, Culture, Health and Sexuality, Social Identities, Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East, and Anthropology News. Mahdavi has received awards from the American Public Health Association, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Society for Medical Anthropology, and the Society for Applied Anthropology. She is currently an editor for both Culture, Health and Sexuality and Rahavard Quarterly, a journal devoted to contemporary social issues in Iran and among the Iranian diaspora. Mahdavi's books include Gridlock: Labor, Migration and Human Trafficking in Dubai (Stanford University Press, 2011) and Passionate Uprisings: Iran's Sexual Revolution (Stanford University Press, 2008). [End Page 130]
Jared McCormick is a Ph.D. candidate in Social Anthropology at Harvard University. His work focuses on mobility and imagination in the landscape of Beirut and on conceptions of masculinity, subjectivity, and the creation of space. McCormick is also interested in Geographic Information System technology and the possibilities between social anthropology and geospatial technologies. Currently, he is carrying out two years of fieldwork in Beirut. McCormick received an M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies from the American University of Beirut...
