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Lara Deeb is a cultural anthropologist and Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at the University of California, Irvine.
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...
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"Winner of the 2014 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Prize in Middle Eastern Studies" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014" Lara Deeb is associate professor of anthropology at Scripps College and the author of An Enchanted Modern (Princeton). Mona Harb is associate professor of urban studies and politics at the American University of Beirut and the author of Le Hezbollah à Beyrouth.
How the rise of leisure is changing contemporary...
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