Love Across Difference: Mixed Marriage in Lebanon

Lebanon may be the most complicated place in the world to be a "mixed" couple. It has no civil marriage law, fifteen personal status laws, and a political system built on sectarianism. Still, Lebanon has the most interreligious marriages per capita in the Middle East. What constitutes a mixed marriage is in flux as social norms shift, and reactions to mixed marriage reveal underlying social categories of discrimination. Based on her book Love Across Difference, Dr. Deeb will draw on two decades of interviews and research to show how mixed couples in Lebanon confront patriarchy, social difference, and sectarianism.