Editing An Enchanted Modern (section)

== About the author ==
Professor [[Lara deeb|Lara Deeb]] is a first-generation U.S. citizen and an Arab-American scholar, educator, and activist. She is a cultural anthropologist and Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her research interests include the politics of knowledge production; gender and sexuality; religion, especially Islam; transnational feminism; and the Middle East, especially Lebanon. Her current book project uses social responses to intersectarian and interreligious relationships and marriages in Lebanon to better understand social sectarianism and sect as a form of social difference.