Munira Khayyat

Munira Khayyat teaches anthropology at the American University in Cairo.

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Resistant Ecology, Bitter Life

Theorizing the Contemporary

Resistant Ecology, Bitter Life

In the South Lebanon borderland where tobacco is widely cultivated, locals call it—not unlovingly—al-nabti al-murrah, the “bitter crop.” It is ardently embraced... More