The War on Lebanon: History, Politics and Resistance
Over the past month the world has witnessed the expansion of war from Gaza to Lebanon, following Israel’s pager attacks, bombings, assassinations of Hezbollah leadership, and now a ground invasion. Join us for a discussion of the deeper history and context of Lebanon’s history of resistance to Israeli violence and its entwined struggle with the Palestinian people. The event will feature a discussion with the co-authors of MERIP’s recent primer on Lebanon, Lara Deeb (Scripps College), Maya Mikdashi (Rutgers University), Tsolin Nalbantian (Leiden University) and Nadya Sbaiti (Georgetown-Qatar), and moderated by Laleh Khalili (University of Exeter). This event is cosponsored by the Middle East Research and Information Project.
Speakers
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Lara Deeb is Professor of Anthropology; Laura Vausbinder Hockett Endowed Chair, Chair of Anthropology and Middle East and North African Studies at Scripps College.
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Maya Mikdashi is an Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and the Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
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Tsolin Nalbantian is an associate professor of Modern Middle East History at Leiden University.
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Nadya Sbaiti is an Assistant Teaching Professor of History at Georgetown University in Qatar.
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Laleh Khalili is Professor of Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter.