Architecture and design
Mona Harb is Professor of Urban Studies and Politics at the American University of Beirut where she is also co-founder and research lead at the Beirut Urban Lab. She is the author of Le Hezbollah à Beirut: de la banlieue à la ville (Karthala, 2010), co-author of Leisurely Islam: Negotiating Geography and Morality in Shi’i South Beirut (with Lara Deeb, Princeton University Press, 2013), and co-editor of Local Governments and Public Good: Assessing Decentralization in the Arab World (with Sami Atallah, LCPS, 2015), of Refugees as City-Makers (with Mona Fawaz et al., AUB, 2018), and of Cities JadMag (with Eric Verdeil, Tadween, 2019), as well as author of numerous other publications. Her ongoing research investigates (i) matters of governance in contexts of limited statehood, crises and disasters, (ii) configurations of collective life and solidarities in contested cities, and (iii) the intersections of urban activism, oppositional politics, and the crafting of "real utopias."