Hiba Bou Akar's "For the War Yet to Come" wins 2019 Nikkie Keddie Book Award, Anthony Leeds Prize

Hiba Bou Akar's For the War Yet to Come: Planning Beirut's Frontiers was awarded the 2019 Middle East Studies Association Nikkie Keddie Book Award and the Anthony Leeds Prize, sponsored by the American Anthropological Association (AAA) - Society for Urban, National, and Transnational / Global Anthropology (SUNTA) section. The Nikki Keddie Book Award recognizes outstanding scholarly work in the area of religion, revolution, and/or society. The Leeds Prize is awarded each year for the outstanding book published the previous year in urban, national and/or transnational anthropology. The prize is awarded to a book that uses ethnographic data from complex, transnational, urban societies in methodologically and theoretically innovative ways.

Hiba Bou Akar is an Assistant Professor in the Urban Planning program at Columbia GSAPP. For the War Yet to Come examines how Beirut’s post-civil war peripheries have been transformed through multiple planning exercises into contested frontiers that are mired in new forms of conflict. It contributes to planning thought by studying planning practice within a framework of past and anticipated violence.