Roschanack Shaery-Eisenlohr is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Germany.
Shaery-Eisenlohr's various arguments are not simply nuances of existing theses, but rather fairly significant reformulations of our understanding of the rise of Shi'ite politics in Lebanon and beyond. -- Akram Khater, author of Inventing Home: Emigration, Gender, and the Making of a Lebanese Middle Class, 1861-1921