Sara Fregonese

Senior Lecturer in Political Geography

University of Birmingham

Sara Fregonese is Lecturer in Political Geography at the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham. Her expertise is in urban conflict and urban geopolitics. She is the author of two books: War and the city: Urban geopolitics in Lebanon. (IB Tauris/Bloomsbury, 2019) and The radicals’ city. Urban envirornment, polarisation, cohesion (Routledge, 2013, with Ralf Brand).

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Elements of contestation. Sectarianism as extractive violence and Lebanon’s revolution La ta7riqoo Lubnaan be l ta2ifiyya [Don’t burn down Lebanon with sectarianism] Sign at fire rangers protest, Baabda, March 2018.   Since October 17th 2019, cities across Lebanon have experienced widespread protest. The trigger was a new... Read More
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