Susann Kassem is a research associate at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, the University of Oxford, where she previously held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship. Her first book project The Global North in the South of Lebanon: The Practices of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon is based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork conducted in rural south Lebanon between 2009–19. It analyzes how UN peacekeeping merges military activities with civilian practices of economic, civic, and cultural engagement in an attempt to implement an idealized political order in the former colonial world.