Livia Wick is Associate Professor of anthropology in the Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies Department at the American University of Beirut. She in Ramallah, Palestine, earned a BA from Brown University, an MA from the Institut National des Langues and Civilisations Orientales in Paris and a PhD from MIT. She started working at AUB in 2007. Her research and teaching interests lie in the overlapping themes of disease and illness, birth, gender and oral history. She conducted field research in Palestine and Lebanon. Her book is entitled Sumud: An Ethnography of Birth, Oral History and Persistence in Palestine. It was published by Syracuse University Press in 2023. She also serves as director of the Reproductive Health Working Group in Arab Countries and Turkey (RHWG) https://www.rhwg.org.