SOAS Research Online

Book Chapters

Chamas, Sophie (2024) 'Palestine and the Question of Queer Arab Becoming.' In: Tawil-Souri, Helga and Matar, Dina, (eds.), Producing Palestine: The Creative Production of Palestine Through Contemporary Media. London: I.B. Tauris, pp. 199-210. (SOAS Palestine Studies)

Chamas, Sophie (2024) 'A Pedagogy of Rumours.' In: Kaabour, Marwan, (ed.), The Queer Arab Glossary. London: Saqi Books, pp. 126-132.

Chamas, Sophie (2022) 'Community Organizing and the Limits of Participatory Democracy in Lebanon.' In: Haugbolle, Sune and LeVine, Mark, (eds.), Altered States: The Remaking of the Political in the Arab World. London: Routledge. (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Democratization and Government)

Journal Article

Chamas, Sophie (2023) 'Lil Watan: Queer Patriotism in Chauvinistic Lebanon.' Sexualities, 26 (1/2). pp. 230-251.

Chamas, Sophie and Allouche, Sabiha (2022) 'Mourning Sarah Hegazi: Grief and the Cultivation of Queer Arabness.' WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly, 50 (3/4). pp. 230-249.

Chamas, Sophie (2021) 'Activism as a Way of Life: The Social World of Social Movements in Middle-Class Beirut.' Partecipazione e Conflitto, 14 (2). pp. 530-546.

Chamas, Sophie (2020) 'Reading Marx in Beirut: Disorganised Study and the Politics of Queer Utopia.' Middle East: Topics and Arguments, 14. pp. 143-159.

Chamas, Sophie (2019) 'Laughing Sectarianism Away: The Possibilities and Limitations of Lebanese Satire.' Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 12 (13). pp. 261-281.

Chamas, Sophie (2019) 'The Sterility of Evil.' Kohl: a Journal for Body and Gender Research, 5 (2). pp. 148-150.

Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs

Chamas, Sophie (2023) Drag Queens Everywhere. Post45 [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Chamas, Sophie (2016) Saving the Periphery from Itself: The Problem with Thinking the Postcolonial from the Metropole. Allegra Lab [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Chamas, Sophie (2016) Drifting Away: De-Occupying the Palestinian Self. Jadaliyya [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Chamas, Sophie (2014) Sympathy for the Devil: Palestine’s Tragic Collaborators. Jadaliyya [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Chamas, Sophie (2014) How to Do Things with Hair. Jadaliyya [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Chamas, Sophie (2013) Watch, See, Feel: Kasim Abid’s Whispers of the Cities. Jadaliyya [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Chamas, Sophie (2011) Bodies Moving to Memory. Jadaliyya [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Audios

Chamas, Sophie, Sayegh, Ghiwa and Alessandrini, Anthony (2023) Hope as a Discipline: Reflecting on the Lebanese Revolution. International Solidarity Action Research Network. [Audio]

Other

Chamas, Sophie (2023) 'Researching Activism in “Dead Time”: Counter-politics and the Temporality of Failure in Lebanon.' Wisconsin: Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) ; International Council for Philosophy and the Human Science (CIPSH).