​Deen Sharp

Deen Sharp is a Ph.D. candidate
in the Earth and Environmental Sciences program, specialized in Geography, at
The Graduate Center, CUNY. Previously, he was a freelance journalist and
consultant based in Beirut, Lebanon. His research focuses on the geography of
the Arab world and he has written for a number of publications, including, Jadaliyya,
the Arab Studies Journal and the Guardian. He is co-editor
(with Claire Panetta) of the book Beyond the Square: Urbanism and the Arab
Uprisings (Forthcoming: Urban Research)and is the
co-author (with Natalia Linos) of the chapter “Dying to
live in Palestine: Steadfastness, Pollution and Embodied Space” in the
edited volume Suicide and Agency: Anthropological Perspectives on
Self-Destruction, Personhood and Power (Forthcoming: Ashgate). His
principal research project is on real estate in post-war Beirut, Lebanon.