Munira Khayyat

MUNIRA KHAYYAT, then a member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and assistant professor at the American University in Cairo, was awarded a Post-PhD Research Grant in April 2019 to aid research on “The Life of War: Ecologies of Survival in South Lebanon.” The project, building on dissertation research conducted in 2007-2008 which was funded by a Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, examined “resistant ecologies” of living amidst the violence of war, capitalist extraction, the nation-state, and the ruined worlds these have created and within which many must continue to live. In South Lebanon, an enduring warzone, multispecies alliances such as tobacco farming, goat-herding or tending to the spirits of nature, underwrite resistant life. The funding enabled follow-up field research in the “frontline villages” along the Lebanese-Israeli border where dissertation research was conducted a decade earlier. The fresh data was incorporated in the book manuscript “A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon,” which was published by the University of California Press in 2022.