Maria Frederika Malmström is Associate Professor at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University and Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Columbia University. Her current research includes a collaborative project on suspicion as a social force in urban Africa, departing from materiality as a mode of social, political, and cultural articulation. A second project explores the making and unmaking of masculinities in relation to religious identities, citizenship, and the state through an ethnography of soundscapes in Cairo.