This thesis analyzes the role of drag performance in constructing a queer Lebanese identity and creating queer spaces and a queer community in Beirut, bound by a sectarian and communal context but also subjected to global ...

By analyzing data from 102 million mortgage loan applications in the US between 2004-2012 (about 90% of all applications) across 3,141 counties and 8,000 financial institutions, I investigate whether applicants’ gender ...