Notes on contributor
Smadar Lavie is a Scholar in Residence at the Beatrice Bain Research Group U.C. Berkeley. She is the author of two award winning ethnographies, The Poetics of Military Occupation (California UP, 1990) and Wrapped in the Flag of Israel (Berghahn Books 2014), and co-editor of Creativity/Anthropology (Cornell UP, 1993) and Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity (Duke UP, 1996). Lavie is recipient of the ASA 2009 Gloria Anzaldua Prize and the Heart at East honour plaque for lifetime service to Mizrahi communities in Israel–Palestine.