Barbara Drieskens

Barbara Drieskens is an urban anthropologist and an assistant visiting professor at the American University of Beirut. Her present research in Beirut focuses on the issues of freedom and social control. She is the author of Living with Djinns: Understanding and Dealing with the Invisible in Cairo, and co-editor of Cities of the South: Citizenship and Exclusion in the 21st Century, both by Saqi Books.