Kareem Rabie is assistant professor of anthropology at the American University in Washington, DC. He would like to thank Paul Kohlbry and Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins for their careful reading and comments, Beshara Doumani and Alex Winder for inviting him to contribute, and also the two anonymous reviewers for their thoughtful comments. Some of the material presented here will appear in his forthcoming book to be published by Duke University Press in spring 2021.
