Author: Sophie Chamas

Sophie Chamas is a PhD student in Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford, where she focuses on the anthropological study of the Middle East, particularly Lebanon. She is also a writer and has contributed to The State, Jadaliyya, The Outpost, Vice and Aljazeera English, among other publications. Until 2015, she was co-editor of Mashallah News, an online platform for ‘disOriented’ news from the Middle East.

Sophie Chamas

Saving the periphery from itself: The problem with thinking the postcolonial from the metropole

September, 2016 / By Sophie Chamas

In February of this year, I participated in a Middle East, South Asian and African Studies graduate student conference at […]