Faith and Resistance: The Politics of Love and War in Lebanon (London: Pluto Press, 2018).

This book explores the rise of Shi‘i activism in Lebanon and across the Middle East, drawing parallels to other theologies of liberation in the region as well as in Latin America and South Africa. Based on more than two years of ethnographic fieldwork in Lebanon and using a Gramscian framework, it carefully looks at the Islamic Resistance Movement in particular, focusing on the social institutions affiliated with Hizbullah and its allies to better understand how resistance is lived in daily lives, as well as how a culture of resistance is reproduced within the community. This book also critically analyses how the resistance movement is negotiating its newly acquired political and economic powers in relation to its activist origins, asking what impact this negotiation may have on the wider resistance project and decolonial aspirations globally. Click here to sample the first two chapters. Email for more.