Dr. Dima Abi Saab received her Ph.D. from New York University in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies with a focus in urban politics. She is currently working on her book manuscript based on research conducted for her dissertation, Geographies of War: Scalar Containment, Municipal Politics, and the Creation of Post-War Lebanon. Dima’s project engages with the politics of scale as a framework from which to examine the legislative, territorial, and infrastructural maintenance involved in the production of sectarian governmentalities. Dima explores the constitution of modern citizenship from a place of infrastructural precarity and delineates how sect-based militias use this precarity as the blueprint for Lebanon's post-war governmentality. She thinks through the impact of the afterlives and specters of violence and the ontological experiences involved in navigating geographies of war by anchoring her study in several Druze villages of Mount Lebanon. Dima’s research and scholarship have been shaped by her engagement with municipalist networks from Minim Municipalism to the Urban Democracy Lab at NYU.