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DR Sophie Chamas' Outputs (3)

A Pedagogy of Rumours (2024)
Book Chapter
Chamas, S. (2024). A Pedagogy of Rumours. In M. Kaabour (Ed.), The Queer Arab Glossary (126-132). Saqi Books

Community Organizing and the Limits of Participatory Democracy in Lebanon (2022)
Book Chapter
Chamas, S. (2022). Community Organizing and the Limits of Participatory Democracy in Lebanon. In S. Haugbolle, & M. LeVine (Eds.), Altered States: The Remaking of the Political in the Arab World. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/b22870-3

This chapter draws on two years of fieldwork with an activist-initiated community group in the East Beirut neighborhood of Mar Mikhael, a locale suffering the consequences of an aggressive process of gentrification. I argue that gentrification has se... Read More about Community Organizing and the Limits of Participatory Democracy in Lebanon.