About

Dr. Sarah Marusek is a native New Yorker who writes about the intersection of culture and society.

Marusek graduated with a BA in Art History and Literature from Goldsmiths, University of London and subsequently helped to launch a luxury photographic art imprint with the publishers of Dazed and Confused magazine. Marusek then migrated to New York City to start SMPR, a boutique agency working with music and arts photographers, galleries, and publishers.

Losing faith over her country's response to the attack on 9/11, Marusek then pursued an MA in International Affairs from the New School and a PhD in Social Science from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. During her PhD, she spent more than two and a half years in Lebanon researching Islamic activism, and has also conducted field research in New York, South Africa, Iran, and Senegal.

 

Marusek is the author of the book Faith and Resistance: The Politics of Love and War in Lebanon (London: Pluto Press, 2018). She has also done work as a freelance researcher and editor for Public Interest Investigations – Spinwatch, co-authoring a series of reports on the connections between right-wing Zionism and Islamophobia.