#  Peter S. Habib 

Hicham Alaoui Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Scholars Program

 

 

 



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Peter Habib holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Emory University. His work investigates how complex and ruinous environmental realities become appropriated into politicized narratives, often serving nationalist purposes. His current book project, titled *Fluid Subjects: Displacement, Governance, and the Social Life of Water in Lebanon*, investigates the entanglement of refugee life and water politics in contemporary Lebanon.

**Research Interests:** Environment; water; humanitarianism; infrastructure; migration; nationalism; political belonging; critical development studies; religion and Christianity; and modern Middle East and North Africa.



 

 

 





 

 

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