Lara Deeb is Professor of Anthropology at Scripps College. She is the author of An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi‘i Lebanon (Princeton University Press 2006), co-author of Leisurely Islam: Negotiating Geography and Morality in Shi‘i South Beirut (Princeton University Press 2013), which won the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize given by the British Society for Middle East Studies, and co-author of Anthropology’s Politics: Disciplining the Middle East (Stanford University Press 2015). Deeb has published widely on the politics of knowledge production, gender and Islam, piety and morality, Hizbullah’s cultural production, and transnational feminism. Her current book project analyzes social responses to intersectarian and interreligious relationships and marriages in Lebanon in order to better understand social sectarianism and sect as a form of social difference.