Beyond Islamism in Tripoli, Lebanon, with Tine Gade

The Gateway - A Podcast from the Middle East

This week we are joined by Tine Gade, a Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. Tine talks about her new book, Sunni City: Tripoli from Islamist Utopia to the Lebanese ‘Revolution', published by Cambridge University Press in November 2022. In the book, Tine looks beyond typical understandings of Lebanon’s second city, Tripoli, that have focused on the city as an Islamist or even Jihadi political centre. Instead, she argues, the city has a much deeper history of resistance and collaboration with the state and wider region.