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Sophie Chamas
SOAS, University of London
Occupation
Lecturer
Contact
62 Woodstock Road
Oxford OX2 6JF
United Kingdom
Discipline
Anthropology
Sub Areas
Urban Studies
Theory
Middle East/Near East Studies
Ethnography
Identity/Representation
Pedagogy
Pop Culture
Nationalism
Media
Human Rights
Gender/Women's Studies
Environment
Democratization
Cultural Studies
Cinema/Film
Arab Studies
19th-21st Centuries
Geographic Areas of Interest
Lebanon
Specialties
Civil Society In The Middle East
'Right To The City' Activism
The Contemporary Arab Left
Languages
English (native)
Arabic (native)
Hebrew (intermediate)
Education
DPhil | 2019 | Oriental Studies | University of Oxford
MA | 2011 | Near Eastern Studies | New York University
BA | 2009 | International Studies | American University of Sharjah
Abstracts
The Right to the Lebanese City: The Politicisation of Public Space in Beirut Queering the Lebanese Left: Fugitivity and Alter-Politics in Post-Civil War Lebanon