Socio-Cultural Theory/Psychoanalysis/Urban Studies/Gender Studies/Queer Theory/Middle East and North Africa Sofian Merabet is a socio-cultural anthropologist with an expertise in the modern Middle East and the wider Muslim world. His interdisciplinary research on Lebanon analyzes the human geography of queer identity formations and the social production of queer space as constitutive features of wider class, religious, and gender relations in the region. His professional interests draw on comparative methodologies and approaches ranging from religious and cultural history to the politics of sexuality.