Peer-Reviewed Publications

Khneisser, 2024. The Political Economy of ‘Failure’ in The World Bank-funded Bisri Dam in Lebanon. Development & Change, 55(3): 351-374.

*Awarded the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Graduate Student Paper – 2022

Khneisser, 2020. The Specter of ‘Politics’ & Ghosts of ‘Alternatives’ Past: Lebanese ‘Civil Society’ and the Antinomies of Contemporary Politics. Critical Sociology, 46(3): 359-377.

Khneisser, 2019. The Marketing of Protest and Antinomies of Collective Organization in Lebanon. Critical Sociology, 45(7-8): 1111-1132.

*Awarded the Burawoy-Wright Distinguished Article Award– 2020


Work Under Review

Under Review Instrumental Myths, Structural Realities in Post-Crisis Lebanon: How the Structural Power of Finance Trumped Reforms. Manuscript submitted to Politics & Society.

Under Review Mapping Crisis Narratives in Lebanon: An Interpretive Struggle or Class Struggle? Manuscript submitted to New Political Economy.

Under review Queering Debt: Towards A Queer Political Economic Analysis of Lebanon’s Financial Collapse. Journal of Feminist Economics, Sp. Issue on Expanding LGBTI Economic Development & Empowerment. Co-authored with Hossein Cheaito.

Book Chapters

Khneisser, 2019. ‘Civil Societies’ & the Arab Uprisings- Prospects for Socio Political Change: A Comparative Analysis of the Ongoing Tunisian & Egyptian Plight. In Nasser Yassin & Robert Hobbe (Eds.) Women, Civil Society and Policy Change in the Arab World. Palgrave Macmillan.

Op-Eds & Public-Facing Scholarship