The Lebanese state is structured through religious freedom and
secular power sharing across sectarian groups. Every sect has
specific laws that govern kinship matters like marriage or
inheritance. Together with criminal and civil laws, these laws
regulate and produce political difference. But whether women or
men, Muslims or Christians, queer or straight, all people in
Lebanon have one thing in common—they are biopolitical subjects
forged through bureaucratic, ideological, and legal techniques of
the state. With this book, Maya Mikdashi offers a new way to
understand state power, theorizing how sex, sexuality, and sect
shape and are shaped by law, secularism, and sovereignty. Drawing
on court archives, public records, and ethnography of the Court of
Cassation, the highest civil court in Lebanon, Mikdashi shows how
political difference is entangled with religious, secular, and
sexual difference. She presents state power as inevitably
contingent, like the practices of everyday life it engenders,
focusing on the regulation of religious conversion, the curation of
legal archives, state and parastatal violence, and secular
activism. Sextarianism locates state power in the experiences,
transitions, uprisings, and violence that people in the Middle East
continue to live.
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