Irene Maffi is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lausanne, and Associated Researcher at Christian Michelsen Institute, Bergen. She is the author of Women, Health and the State in the Middle East (2012, I.B.Tauris) and co-editorĀ of Reinventing Love? Gender, Intimacy and Romance in the Arab World (2018, Peter Lang).