Reverie of Resistance

Lara Sheehi is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. She is the founding faculty director of the Psychoanalysis and the Arab World Lab. Lara’s work takes up decolonial and anti-oppressive approaches to psychoanalysis, with a focus on liberation struggles in the Global South. She is co-author with Stephen Sheehi of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine, which won the Middle East Monitor’s 2022 Palestine Book Award. Lara is the President of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology. She is currently working on a new book, From the Clinic to the Street: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures.

Stephen Sheehi is Sultan Qaboos Professor of Middle East Studies in the Asian and Middle East Studies Program and  the Director of the Decolonizing Humanities Project at the College of William & Mary. Having published on psychoanalysis, Arab photography, Arab identity and colonial modernity,  and Islamophobia and racism, he is, most recently, co-author of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine with Lara Sheehi, which has won the Palestine Book Award for Best 2022 Academic Book on Palestine; and Camera Palaestina: Photography and Displaced Histories, co-authored with Salim Tamari and Issam Nassar. He and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian most recently co-edited a special issue of State Crime Journal, “Settler-Colonialism As State-Crime: Abolitionist Perspectives.”